CHAPTER XVI.
WAR Now men began to whisper together and Goza groaned at my side.
"Rather would I look down a live lion's throat than see the dead," he murmured.

But I, who was anxious to learn how far Zikali would carry his tricks, contemptuously told him to be silent.
Presently the king called me to him and said-- "Macumazahn, you white men are reported to know all things.

Tell me now, is it possible for the dead to appear ?" "I am not sure," I answered doubtfully; "some say that it is and some say that it is not possible." "Well," said the king.

"Have you ever seen one you knew in life after death ?" "No," I replied, "that is--yes.

That is--I do not know.