Occasionally there still came flashes, but, search as we would, we could see no trace of either of the wizards.

For my part, I believed that they were both dead.

Now the clouds slowly rolled away down the course of the river, and with them went the rain; and now the stars shone in their wake.
"Let us go and see," said the old chief, rising and shaking the water from his hair.

"The fire-fight is ended, let us go and see who has conquered." I rose and followed him, dripping as though I had swum a hundred yards with my clothes on, and after me came all the people of the kraal.
We reached the spot; even in that light I could see where the iron-stone had been split and fused by the thunderbolts.

While I was staring about me, I suddenly heard the chief, who was on my right, give a low moan, and saw the people cluster round him.