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Updated: June 25, 2025
Whereon Mavovo said, or seemed to say: "Ah! at last you touch the truth, O Macumazana, my father. All things are a shadow and we are shadows in a shadow. But what throws the shadow, O Macumazana, my father? Why does Dogeetah appear to come hither riding on a white ox and why do all these thousands think that my Snake stands so very stiff upon its tail?"
The next thing I remember was that the fires, which had died away almost to nothing, were burning very brightly again, I suppose because someone had put fuel on them, and Zikali was speaking. "Come here, O Macumazana and O Son of Matiwane," he said, "and I will repeat to you what your spirits have been telling me."
"It is that if among this company there is any jackal of a man who, thinking that he might be one of the six to die, dreams to avoid his fate by deserting, it will be of no use. For then my Snake will point him out and show me how to deal with him." Now with one voice each man present there declared that desertion from the lord Macumazana was the last thing that could possibly occur to him.
However, I said nothing about it at the time, because Brother John asked sharply: "And is this priestess also dead?" "I do not know, Dogeetah, but I think not. If she were dead I think that we should have heard some rumour of the Feast of the eating of the dead Mother." "Eating the dead mother!" I exclaimed. "Yes, Macumazana.
Oh surely you must be mad." "You thought us mad, Babemba, when we crossed the lake to Rica Town, yet we came back safely." "True, Macumazana, but compared to the Kendah the Pongo were but as the smallest star before the face of the sun." "What do you know of them then?" I asked.
For if you do not go to look for Jana, Jana will come to look for you who have hurt him so sorely. Remember that henceforth, wherever you go in all this land, it may happen that you will meet Jana." "Do you mean to say that the brute comes into the territory of the White Kendah?" "Yes, Macumazana, at times he comes, or a spirit wearing his shape comes; I know not which.
"It is because we are on the borders of the Kendah country," answered old Harût. "Four days' more march will bring us there, Macumazana." "Then why should you take precautions against your own people? Surely they will welcome you." "With spears perhaps. Macumazana, learn that the Kendah are not one but two people.
"O Macumazana, only that the King wishes to know whether you have any of those little balls left in the box which I brought back to you, since, if so, he thinks he would like to swallow one of them in this hot weather." I proffered him the whole box, but he would not take it, saying that the King would like me to give it to him myself.
"Lords Macumazana and Igeza, and yellow man who is named Light-in-Darkness," he said, "we, the head priests of the Child, speaking on behalf of the White Kendah people with full authority so to do, have taken counsel together and of the wisdom of the Child as to the demands which you make of us.
But it is not so, for in learning so much that is new, you have forgotten more that is old. When the Snake that is in you, Macumazana, dwelt in a black savage like me a thousand thousand years ago, you could have done and did what I do.
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