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Updated: May 17, 2025
"Black 'mamba, or so you would call it, though I know it for something else." "What else, Hans?" "One of the old witch-doctor Zikali's spirits which he sets at the mouth of this kloof to warn him of who comes or goes. I know it well, and so do others. I saw it listening behind a stone when you were up the kloof last evening talking with the Opener-of-Roads."
Going to the spring near which we were outspanned, I took off my shirt to have a good wash, still chuckling at the memory of all the hocus-pocus of my old friend, the Opener-of-Roads. While engaged in this matutinal operation I struck my hand against something and looking, observed that it was the hideous little ivory image of Zikali, which he had set about my neck.
Umslopogaas listened to every syllable with a curious intentness, and then asked me to repeat it all again, which I did. "Lousta! Monazi!" he said slowly. "Well, you heard those names to-day, did you not, White Man? And you heard certain things from the lips of this Monazi who was angry, that give colour to that talk of the Opener-of-Roads.
"What is the rest of this story of yours, Macumazahn, which was told before the Opener-of-Roads gave you that message? Does it please you to repeat it to me that I may judge of it with my ears?" "Certainly," I answered, "on one condition, that what the ears hear, the heart shall keep to itself alone." Umslopogaas stooped and laid his hand upon the broad blade of the weapon beside him, saying,
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