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"It is all vers well to.be a kiij by right divine. Iuoi, but now do you 'propose to be a king indeeriV" j "Nay, I know not lufailoos, hast tliou a plan?" "lgnosi, son of tlie lilitniu!?." answered his uncle, "to nilit is 1 1 j (rival l;un-e anc witch-hunt M my will be siu'ilid out ami perish, and in tlie hearts of many others there will be grid and anuisli and anu' against the kin? Twala. When the dance is over, then I will speak to souk; of the greai chiefs, who in turn, if 1 can win them over, shall 8eak to their regiments. 1 shall speak to the chiefs softly at tirst and brin? them tc see that thou art indeed the king, and I think that by to-morrow's light thou shall have twenty thousand spears at thy com mand. And now must 1 go and think, and make ready. After the dance is done I will if 1 am yet alive, meet thee here, and we will talk. At the best there will be war." At this moment our conference was inter rupted by the cry that ines:'ngers had come from the kin-r. Advancing to the door ol the hut we orire I that they should be ad mitted, and pieseu'Jy three men entered, each bearing a sliiuin : shirt of chain armor and a magnificent uaU!e-ax. "The gifts of my lord the kine to the white men from the stars I" exclaimed a herald who came with them. "We thank the kirn?," I answered, "with draw." The men went and we examined the ar mor with groat interest It was the mosl beautiful chain-work we had ever seen. A whole eout fell together so closely that i' formed a mass of links pcarcely too big to be covered with both hands. "Do you make these things in this country, Infadoos?" 1 asked; "they are very beauti ful." "Nav, my lord, they come down to us from our forefathers. We know not who made them, and there are but few left None but those of royal blood may wear thei.i. They are magic-coats through which no spear can pass, lie who wears them is well-nigh safe in the battle. The king is well pleased or much afraid, or be would not have sent them. Wear them to-night, my lords." The rest of the day we spent quietly rest ing and talking over the situation, which was sufficiently exciting. At last the sun went down, the thousand watch-fires glowed out and through the darkness we heard the tramp of many feet and the clashing of hun dreds of spears, as the regiments passed to their appointed places to be ready for the great dance. About ten the full moon came np in splen dor, and as we stood watching her ascent In fadoos arrived, clad in full war toggery, and accompanied by a guard of twenty men to escort us to the dance. We had already, as recommended, donned the shirts of chain armor which the king had sent us, putting them under our ordinary clothing, and find ing, to our surprise, that they were neither very heavy nor uncomfortable. These steel shirts, which had evidently been made for men of a very large stature, hung somewhat loosely upon Good and myself. Then strap ping our revolvers round our waists, and taking the battle-axes which the king had sent with the armor in our hands, we started. On arriving at the great kraal, where we had that morning been interviewed by the king, we found that it was closely packed with some, twenty thousand men arranged in regiments around it The regiments were in turn divided into .companies, and between each company was a little path to allow free passage to the witch-tinders to pass up and down. Anything more imposing than the sight that was presented by this vast and orderly concourse of armed men it was impossible to 'conceive. There they stood perfectly silent, and the bright moon light poured ita light upon the forest of their raised Spears, upon their majestic forms, waving plumes, and the harmonious shading ,of their various colored shields. ' Wherever we looked was line upon line of set faces surmounted by range upon range of glitter ing spears. "Surely," I said to Infadoos, "the whole army is here?" "Nay, Macumazahn"' he answered, "but a third part of it One-thisd is present at this dance each year, another third part is must ered outside in case there should be trouble when killing begins, ten thousand more gar rison the outposts round Loo, and the rest watch at the kraals in the country. Thou seest it is a very great people." "They are very silent" said Good; and in deed the intense stillness among such a vast concourse of living men was almost over powering. "What says Bougwan?" asked Infadoos. I translated. "Those over whom the shadow of Death is hovering are silent" he answered, grimly. I "Will manv be killed?" "Very many." "It seems," I said to the others, that we are going to assist at a gladiatorial show ar ranged regardless of expense." Sir Henry shivered, and Good said that he wished we could get out of it "Tell me," I asked Infadoos, "are we in danger?" "I know not iy lords, 1 trust not; but do not be afraid. If ye live through the night all may go well. The soldiers murmur against the king." All this while we had been advancing steadily toward the center of the open space, iu the midst of which were placed some stools. As we proceeded we perceived an other small party coming from the direction of the royal hut "It is the king, Twala, and Scragga, his son, and Gagool the old, and see, with them are those who slay," and he pointed to a little group of about a dozen gigantic and savage-looking men, armed with siears in one hand ami clubs in the other. The king se ited himself upon the center stool, Gagool crouched at his , feet and the others stood behind. "Greeting, white lords," he cried, as we came np; "be seated, waste not the precious time the night is all too short for the deeds that must be done. Ye come in a good hour, and ahall see a glorious show. .Look round white lords, look round," and he . roiled his one wicked eye from regiment to regiment "Can. the stars show ye such a sight as this? Seavhthabako'ia their ickedneaa, vall those who,have;eyil in their hearts an4 feai ttWJW,T t t'hwre 9?V .! -in. ,. tBenl1Jheoriet,outOa thjn piercing voicpj ''the hyenas are hungry, 'they howl for food. Begin! , begin 1" . . Then for moment there jris intense still ness, mad Iwrribjt hy a presajre et.wbat ThV kIrrted .pea' and: ' aUcfdeniy twenty thousand feet Vere'ralseel as though they". leloUfd' fe''6rte ' jmd 'brought down' With a 1 stamp upon the earthr' This ground to shake and tremble.' Then Tronr i far point of tiie'clfcftj'a solitary voice began f A walling Bong, 'of, which the refrain rang ' aomething as follows: , - "What is.the lot of man born of woman?" Back came the answer rolling out from every throat in the vast company : "Death I" Gradually, however, the 6ong was taken up by company after company, till the whole armed multitude was singing it, and 1 could ho longer follow' the words, -except in so far as they apjwarcd to represent various phase of human passions, fears and joys. Now it seemed to b a love-song, now a majestic swelling war-chant and last of all a death dirge ending suddenly iu one heart-breaking wail that went echoing and rol.ing away iu a volume of blood-curdling sound. Again the silence fell upon tin? place, an I again it was broken by the king lifting up his hand. Instantly there was a pattering of feet and from out of the masses of the warriors strange aud awful figures came running to ward us. As they drew near we saw that they were those of women, most of them aged, for their white hair, ornamented with small bladders t iken from lish, streamed out behind them. Their faces were painted in stripes of white and yellow; down their backs hung snake-skins, and round their waists rattled circlets of human bones, while eacii held in her shriveled hand a small forked wand. In all there were ten of them. When they arrived in front of us they halted, and one of them pointing with her wand toward the crouching ligure of Ga gool, cried out : "Mother, old mother we are here." "Good! good! good!" piped out that aged iniquity. "Are your eyes keen, isauusis" (witch doctresses), "ye seers in dark pla ces?" "Mother, they are keen." "Good ! gooit ! good ! Are your ears open, isauusis, ye who hear words that come not from the tongue?" "Mother, they are open." "Good! good! good! Are your senses awake, isanusis can ye smell blood, can ye purge the land of the wicked ones who com pass evil against the king and their neigh bors? Are ye ready to do justice of Heaven above, ye whom I have tiught, who have eaten of the bread of my wisdom and drank of the water of my magic?" ''Mother, we can." "Then go! Tarry not ye vultures; see the layers,"- pointing to the ominous group of executioners behind; "make sharp their spears; the white men from afar are hungry to see. Go." With a wild yell the weird party broke away in every direction, like fragments from a shell, and the dry bones round their waists rattling as they ran, made direct for various points of the dense human circle. We could not watch them all, so fixed our eyes upon the isanusi nearest us. When she came within a few paces of the warriors, she had ed and began to dance wildly, turning round and round with an almost incredible rapidi ty, and shrieking out sentences such as "I smell him, the evil-doer!" "He is near, he who poisoned his mother I" "T hear the thoughts of him who thought evil of the king!" Quicker and quicker she danced, till she lashed herself into such a frenzy of excite ment that the foam flew in flecks from her gnashing jaws, her eyes seemed to start from her head, and her flesh to quiver visibly. Suddenly she stopped dead, and stiffened all over, like a pointer dog when he scents game, and then with outstretched wand be gan to creep stealthily toward the soldier be fore her. It seemed to us that as she came their stoicism gave way, and that they shrunk from her. As for ourselves, we fol lowed her movements with a horrible fasci nation. Presently, still creeping and crouching like a dog, she was before them. Then she 6topped and iioiuted. aud then again crept on a pace or two. 1 Suddenly the end came. With a shriek she sprung in and touched a tall warrioi with the forked wand. Instantly two of hi comrades, those standing immediately next to him, seized the doomed man, each by one arm, and advanced with him toward the king. He did not' resist but we saw that he dragged his limbs as though they were para lyzed, and his fingers, from which the spear had fallen, were limp as those of a man new. ly dead. As he came, two of the villainous , execu tioners stepped forward to meet him.. Pres ently they met and the executioners turned round toward the king as though for orders. "Kill!" said the king. "Kill!" squeaked Gagool. . "Kill !" re-echoed Scragga, with a hollow chuckle. Almost before the words were ut tered, the horrible deed was done. One man had driven his spear into the victim's heart and to make assurance doubly sure, the other had dashed out his brains with his great club. "One," counted Twala, the king, like a black Madame Defarge, as Good said, and the body was dragged a few paces away and stretched out Hardly was this done, before another poor wretch was brought up like an ox to the slaughter. This time we could see, from the leopard-skin cloak, that the man was a per son of rank. Again the awful syllables were spoken, and the victim fell dead. "Two," counted the king. And so the deadly game went on, till some hundred bodies were stretched in rows be hind us. I have heard of the gladiatorial shows of the Ca?sars, and of Spanish bull fights, but I take the liberty of doubting if they were either of them half as horrible as this Kukuana witch-hunt. Gladiatorial shows and Spanish bull-lights, at any rate, contributed to the public amusement which certainly was not the case here. The most confirmed sensation-monger would fight shy of sensation if he knew that it was well on the cards that he would, in his own proper person, be the subject of the next "event" Once we rose aud tried to remonstrate, but were sternly repressed by Twala. "Let the law take its course, white men. These dogs are magicians and evil-doers; it is well that they should die," was the only answer vouchsafed to us. About midnight there was a pause. The witch-finders gathered themselves together, apparently exhausted with their bloody work, ana we thought that the whole per formance was done with. But it. was not so, for presently, to our surprise, the old woman, Gagool, rose from her crouching position, supporting herself with a stick, 6taggered off into the open space. It was an extraordinary sight to see this vulture-headed old creator e, bent nearly double with extreme ager gather strength., .by degrees till at .last she rushed about almost as actively as her; ill-omened pupils. To and fro she ran, cvhanting to her self, fill suddenly she made a dash at . tall , maa t standing; in i front of .one of the regi .aaettiBiSj.ioochBdb4B., As sh;dd so a groan, went- up. from the regiment, which,, he evidently cpmnnded.. BuX aU the same, two of ts' members seized him and. brought him up for exeeution. We afterward learned that he was a man. of, great . weajtb : and im portance, t ieing, , indeed,, a, cousin. . of . the king's." : : . He was slain, and. the king counted one hundred and three. , Then Gazonl ariln ariaqm. aauuaiiy graying nearer and neafeT tOOU t sr 1 res. - 'flfaflg,frf f Mm'.t JbeUcyo she Is gob to try ixir games on; os," . ejaculated Good, In horror. "Nonsenser iald Slf lli-ftfj'." ' As for in) self, as 1 Haw that old fiend dancing nearer and iic;:'.ier, my heart fxmi tively unk in iny Uxils.. 1 glanced Ix-hiud us at the long rows of corpse nid shivered. Nearer and nearer waltzed G.igool look ing for all the world like an animated crooked slick, her horrid ejes gleaming 'and glowing it'll a iiiom! Un.n:y luster. Nearer Mie came, m ani rl, cm l pair of eyes in that v ist a-M-iabiat e w.iiclilng her lit ivemcnts wilii i ii l : !- ai'iel. A I I it it she stood still all-1 point 'Which is it !j be il S r 1 Icnry to himself. 1 1) it moineiit till d xihtt were scl at rest, lor the old woiii in had lushed in and touched U lit K'jij, alius lno,i, on the bhoillder. "I Mliell hiui out." sdic shl iclvi d. "Ivill him, kill him, he i lull ol eil; knl him, the stranger, before biood Hows lor htm. JSlay him. O king!" Then: was a pause, which I instautly took advan tige of. "O king!" 1 called out rising from my seat "t"i" man is the scivtinl ol tiiy guonU, he is their dog; whoso. "ver she Is the blood of our dog sheds our blond. 15V' the sacred law of hospitality 1 claim protection for for hiir.." Tlie old wrnuin rushed In arul touched UmlMiixi. "Gagool, mother of the witch doctors, ha smelted him out; he must die, white men," was the sullen answer. "Nay, he shall not die," I replied; "h who tries to touch him shall die indeed." "Seize him!" roared Twain, to the execu tioners, who stood around red to the eyes with the blood of their victims. They advanced toward us, and then hesi tated. As for Ignosi. he raised his spear, and raised it as though determined to sell bia life dearly. "Stand back, ye dogs" I shouted, "if yrt would see to-morrow's light Touch one hair of his head and your king dies." and i covered Twala with my revolver. Sir Henry and Good also drew their pistols. Sir Henry pointing his at the leading executioner, wh was advancing to carry out the sentence, and Good taking a deliberate aim at Gagool. Twala winced perceptibly, as my barrel came in a line with his broad chest "Well." I said, "what is it to be, Twala."' Then he spo ke. "Put up your magic tubes," he said; "ye have adjured me in the name of hospitality, and for that reason, but not from fear of what ye can do, 1 spare hiin. Uo in peace." "It is well," I answered, unconcernedly; "we are weary of slaughter, and would sleep. Is the dance eudedif" "It is ended," Twala answered, sulkily. "Let these dogs," pointing to the long rows of corpses, "be flung out to the hyenas and the vultures;" he lifted his spear. Instantly the regiments began In perfect silence to defile off through the kraal gate way, a fatigue party only remaining behind to drag away the corpses of those who had been sacrificed. Then we too rose, and making our salaam to his majesty , which he hardly deigned to acknowledge, departed to our kraal. "Well," said Sir Henry, as we sat down, having first lit a lamp of the sort used by the Kukuanas. of which the wick is made of the fiber of a species of palm leaf, and the oil of clarified hippopotamus fat "well, 1 feel un commonly inclined to be sick." "If I had any doubts about helping Umbo bopa to rebel against that infernal black guard," put in Good, "they are gone now. It was as much as I could ilo to sit still while that slaughter was going on. 1 tried to keep my eyes shut but they would open just at the wrong time. I wonder where Infadoos is. Umbopa, my friend, you ought to be grateful to us; your skin came near having an air-hole made in it." "1 am grateful. Bougwan," was Umbopa's answer, when 1 had translated, "and 1 shall not forget As for Infadoos, he will be hero by and by. We mast wait." So we iit our pip-'s and waited ( ItAITKt: XI. WE ;i"E A SIGN. For a long while two hours, 1 should think we sat there in silence, for we were too overwhelmed by the recollection of the horrors we had seen to talk. At last, just an we were thinking of turning in for already there were faint streaks of light in the east ern sky we heard the sound of stejw. Then came the challenge of the sentry, who was posted at the kraal gate, widen was appar ently answered, though not in an audible tone, for the steps canieon; and in another second Infadoos had. entered the hut fol lowed by some half dozen stately-looking chiefs. iumu.ii Xui 'nam asoouf) -jou ajiujs ji aje aq 9K ijim uoot; sasduoa iiatn Jao .oif !U3A"U. 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