Be pleased to follow me." So we went out of Tshoza's hut, across a courtyard to another large hut, which we entered.

It was lit with a good lamp of European make; also a bright fire burned upon the hearth, so that the place was as light as day.

At the side of the hut a man lay upon some blankets, watched by a woman.

His eyes were covered with his hand, and he was moaning: "Drive him away! Drive him away! Cannot he suffer me to die in peace ?" "Would you drive away your old friend, Macumazahn, Saduko ?" asked Nandie very gently, "Macumazahn, who has come from far to see you ?" He sat up, and, the blankets falling off him, showed me that he was nothing but a living skeleton.

Oh! how changed from that lithe and handsome chief whom I used to know.