San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-07-28

LRey nodded TIE neCkletS of bones ratified
on their skinny necks. Then they drew
their heads tooa circle, and Nobela thrust
hers into the center of the circle and
said word.
'Ha! hat" they laughed, 'we hear
you! His is the name. Let him be
named by it in the face of heaven, he
and all his house, then let him hear no
other name forever
And suddenly they sprang up and
rushed toward Iae, Nobela, the aged Is
anusa, at their head. They rushed at
me, pointing to me with the tails of the
vilderbeestes in their hands. Then No
bella switched me in the face with the
tail of the beast and cried aloud,
Greeting, MopO> son of Makedama!
Thou art the man who smotest blood on
the doorposts of the king to bewitch the
king. Let thy house be stamped f1atw
saw it all, felt the blow on my face,
as man feels in dream. heard the.
feet of the slayers, as they bounded for
ward to hale me to the dreadful death,
but my tongue claye to the roof of my
MOUTH could not say a word.
glanced at the king, and, as did so,
thought l heard him mutter, Near the
| mark, not in it.
Then he held up his spear and all was
| silence. The slayers stopped in their
stride, the witch doctors stood with out
stretched arms. the world of men was as
though it had been frozen into Sleep
Hold" he said. Stand aside, son of
| Makedama, who art named an evil doer!
Stand aside, thou, Nobela, and those
with thee who have named him evil
doer! What! Shall l be satisfied with
| the life of one dog? Smell on, We vul-
lures, company by company, smell on!
For the day the labor, at night the
feast"
So | arose, astonished, and stood on
| one side. The witch doctresses also
| stood on one side, smitten with wonder,
since no such smelling out as this had
been seen in the land. For till this hour,
when man was swept with the gnu 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
thundercloud for the flash. But from
! the Black One there came no word.
So we stood on one side, and second
party of the Isanusi women began their
| rites. As the others had done, so they
| did, and yet they worked otherwise, for
| this is the fashion of the Isanusis, that
no two of them smell out in the same
way. And this party swept the faces Of
certain of the kings councillors, nam
ing them guilty of the witch work.
| Stand We ON one sidew said the king
to those who had been smelled out; land
We who have hunted out their wicked
ness, stand we with those who named
Mopo, son of Max, dana. 1t well may
be that all are guilty"
So these stood on one side also, and
! third party'took up the tale And they
named certain of the great generals, and
were in turn hidden to stand on one
side, together with those they had
| named
So it went ON through all that day.
AT length it drew on to evening and
| the last company of the witch doctors
| did their work, smelling out some of
the keepers of the Emposeni, the house
| of the women. But there was one man
of their company, young man and
| tall, who held back and took no share in
the work, but stood by himself in the
center of the great circle, fixing his eyes
| on the heavens.
A,1 ryl ha1 al
ordered to stand aside together with
those whom they had smelled out, the
king called aloud to the last of the
witch doctors, asking him of his name
and tribe, and why he alone did not do
his office.
MY name is lndabazimbi, the son of
Arpi, o king" he answered, land u am
of the tribe of the Maquiisini. Does
the king bid me to smell out him of
whom the spirits have spoken to me as
the worker of this deed?'
Il bid thee" said the king.
Then the young man Indabazimbi
stepped straight forward across the ring,
making no cries or gestures, but as one
who walks from his gate to the cattle
kraal, and suddenly he struck the king
in the face with the tail in his hand,
saying, Il smell out the Heavens above
mer' Zulu title for the kingl
Now great gasp of wonder went up
from the multitude, and all looked to see
this fool slain by torture. But Chaka
rose and laughed aloud.
Thou hast said it," he cried, "and
thou alone! Listen, ye people! | did
the deed! smote blood upon the gate
ways of my kraal with my own hand l
smote it, that / might learn who werc
the true doctors and who were false
Now it seems that in the land of the