smellings-out

Updated: August 13, 2026

Now, those of the inner circle of the spectators, who at these "smellings-out" act as a kind of chorus, looked at the King, and, seeing that he shook his head vigorously, stretched out their right hands, holding the thumb downwards, and said simultaneously in a cold, low voice: "Izwa!" Zikali stamped upon this set of markings. "It is well," he said.

Henry Rider Haggard - Child of Storm