Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-08-20
nEyouRso BY ANTS.
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Little Zulu Maiden.


Little Zulu Maiden. :,
Tha SON of Pambeli. chief, hao uieu
,,,as,lv and the OWNERS. or wi'ch
doctors. we're called upon TO sihpi' wv
the ..aba,aki" who bad caused 'he
Young oh efs death. The lu'as are
comnletelv under the power oil 'he
witch doctors. They believe thorough
~ in bad men aud women VINO 20
about causing sickness ana oea'i' 'noy
believe that these evil ones go aoou' DIV
,,irh, accompanied by their familiars
fwild eats and baboons) and lay poison
in the paths for peope to step over
and ON the thresholds and In the menus
% dastrov crops-thus sickness ana
death are attributed to their maslo
and malice.
In the course of the next day all the
naonle gathered in the square before
Pambeli's house, mass oil siien''
ouaking men aud women. Ior nome
knew whom the OWNERS wouio CON
vict Pambeli himself sat silent ana
sorrow stricken in the doorway Oh MS
hut. before him. the witch-hnders'
They were three hideous ana re-
voting men wearing various charms
upon their filthy bodies, rows o'
u canning teeth around their necks'
dried toads. with the eyes oil animals
and snake skins tied to their WAISTS
and "A quantity of clanking metal brace
lets on ankles and arms
After some preliminary incantatlons
these three men suddenly leaped ior-
ward and commenced their work OF
smelling out" Round and round
the great circle formed by the people
they ran, sometimes slowly with cum
ming gravity. sometimes with almost
incredible swiftness. forever crying
ont one word. 'cswa,' and all the
people repeating il a ter them, some
times loudly then it was dangerous -
then whispering it. crying 1t over ana
over again. running. dancing. yelllng'
until the witch finders. steamlng with
ptrspiration, had lashe1 themselves
in a state of historical fury. shouting
and shrieking with the widest con-
tortions of face and limb, till, alter
: one tornado OF final vic ence, they
swooped with the rapidity of eagles
upon one startled girl, touched her
with forked stick. and cried "Eswa, v
at their loudest. while the covering
crowd breathed freer the next moment,
and then repeated the word in one last
overwhelming shout
1t was all over. the trial was finished.
! the victim was selected. and naught
remained but the penalty to be pro-
nounced. At the supreme moment oil
selection the people dropped away on
E either side and the girl stood alone the
| focus of all eyes. After one fear
full glance all round. after one
second of tense rigidity, the
q woman fell forward in
E stupor Of pitable terror. 1t was g
t sight no man could ever forget. When
II those appointed by the witch doctors
d touched her she rose shrieklng anC
struggling, but seeing = probabl,
knowing-the hopelessness of it all
u she fell again at their feet.
e Late that night one of our kaffir lads
IS an English speaking mission boy Gale
II Tom Oupe--came in and told us tn
II woman had been taken to the woods
% bound to tree, her body SIN cared al
Re over with wild honey, a small train o
l. it thickly laid near Il white ants nest
l. and left. When the moon crept abov
+ the tops of the trees Wood and rose
III buckled on our revolvers and cartridg
" belts, and signaled Oupe quietly
'e After going about mile the DO
G. crouched and pointed and Wood and
IL went forward alone. There was
III pan tial clearing in the forest, an
through the trees we could see tn
ie plain beyond. then IL passing clou
III drifted by and ob'curad the light. w
y two men stool close together. an
III waited with our reyO' ver5 in our hand
NC Nowhere does the moon seem to shir
III with such wonderful, radiance as
u" Africa. When the light showed aga
nc we crept forward. All at once Cyl
vi gave an inarticulate cry of horror III
o' dismay; he was covered with tho
~. ~ sands of crawling things, Shiny m
~ lions were creeping at our feet. u,
III there before us--in the white splend,
H. of the moonlight-waS the poor girl
y body tied naked at the foot of Il tire
AS eaten to death by ants, Travels
ct. Zululand