It's as likely to be some change in the weather or an outbreak of cattle disease.' When we got home I found Japp with a face like grey paper.

'Did you hear the drums ?'he asked.
'Yes,' I said shortly.

'What about them ?' 'God forgive you for an ignorant Britisher,' he almost shouted.

'You may hear drums any night, but a drumming like that I only once heard before.

It was in '79 in the 'Zeti valley.