named him evildoer! What? Shall I be satisfied with the life of one

dog? Smell on, ye vultures, company by company, smell on! For the day

the labour, at night the feast!"

I rose, astonished, and stood on one side. The witch-doctresses also

stood on one side, wonderstruck, since no such smelling out as this

had been seen in the land. For till this hour, when a man was swept

with the gnu's tail of the Isanusi that was the instant of his death.

Why, then, men asked in their hearts, was the death delayed? The