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

witch-doctors asked it also, and looked to the king for light, as men

look to a thunder-cloud for the flash. But from the Black One there

So we stood on one side, and a second party of the Isanusi women began