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Then for the first time Dorcas heard, for hitherto all had seemed to happen in silence. "Die, Umtakati! Die, you wizard, as the King commands, and feed the river-dwellers," said a deep voice. There followed a struggle, a horrible twisting of shapes, and the elderly man vanished over the cliff, while a moment later from below came the noise of a great splash.
The next two days were repetitions of the first, but on the fourth we passed out of the bush-veld into the swamp country that bordered the great river. Here our task was still easy since the Amahagger had followed one of the paths made by the river-dwellers who had their habitations on mounds, though whether these were natural or artificial I am not sure, and sometimes on floating islands.
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