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Updated: May 13, 2025
Search for the gold; find it and take it away if you can. But this place is holy. None of my tribe, save he who holds the office of Molimo for the time, may set a foot therein. Kill me if you will I care not; but so it is, and if you kill me, afterwards they will kill you." Now Meyer, seeing that nothing was to be gained by violence, changed his tone, and asked if he himself would help them.
Benita hung back a little, for the adventure was eerie, then, determined that she would show no fear in the presence of this old priest, took the thin hand he stretched out to her, and walked forward with head erect. The two men began to follow her, but the Molimo stopped them, saying: "Not so.
It was a missal beautifully illuminated, which doubtless the poor lady had been reading when at length she sank exhausted into the sleep of death. "See the Lord Ferreira and his wife," said the Molimo, "whom their daughter laid thus before she went to join them." Then, at a motion from Benita, he covered them up again with their golden cloths.
I don't believe that any good will come of it, and certainly it has brought enough trouble already. That old prophet of a Molimo has the second sight, or something like it, and he does not hide his opinion, but keeps chuckling away in that dreadful place, and piping out his promises of ill to be." "He promised me nothing but good," said Benita with a little smile.
I, Mambo, the Molimo of Bambatse, send you greeting, and will give you good welcome and fulfil my promise, if you come with the far-shooting guns, ten times ten of them, and the powder, and the bullets wherewith I may drive off the Matabele, but not otherwise. My son, Tamas, and my councillors will drive your waggon into my country but you must bring no strange servants.
Bear this message to your king from the White Witch of Bambatse, for I am she and no other. That he leave these Makalanga, my servants, to dwell unharmed in their ancient home, and that he lift no spear against the White Men, lest that evil which the Molimo foretold to you, should fall upon him." "Ah!" said Maduna, "now I understand how you flew from the mountain top into this man's waggon.
"White Maiden," asked the Molimo, addressing Benita, "do you also say that it is a bargain?" "What my father says, I say." "Good," said the Molimo. "Then, in the presence of my people, and in the name of the Munwali, I, Mambo, who am his prophet, declare that it is so agreed between us, and may the vengeance of the heavens fall upon those who break our pact!
Then he spoke in a new voice a clear, quiet voice, that did not seem to be his own. "Who am I?" he said. "I am the Molimo of the Bambatse Makalanga; I am the ladder between them and Heaven; I sit on the topmost bough of the tree under which they shelter, and there in the crest of the tree Munwali speaks with me. What to you are winds, to me are voices whispering in my spirit's ears.
It remained upon the point of rock, and my forefather took it thence. It is a gift to the lady if she will promise to wear it." "Accept it," muttered Mr. Clifford, when he had finished translating this, "or you will give offence." So Benita said: "I thank the Molimo, and accept his gift." Then Tamas rose, and, advancing, cast the ancient, tragic thing over her head.
"Really," said Benita, contemplating this perilous ascent with dismay, "the ways of treasure seekers are hard. I don't think I can," while her father also looked at them and shook his head. "We must get a rope," said Meyer to the Molimo angrily. "How can we climb that place without one, with such a gulf below?"
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