"Hau!" exclaimed Logula. "The White Man-who-wears-the-Sacred-Amulet still lives."
The witch-doctor raised himself to a sitting position and pointed to the north-east.
"Warriors not of our nation. Spears in hundreds. A great hole in the earth .... I see two white men ... at present they are not spirits."
"Ask him," exclaimed Wynyard, addressing Logula, "ask him if he will be able to rescue them?"
"They might be restored to their own people," announced the witch-doctor, without waiting for the question to be put to him. "More, I cannot say, save that the Great One from Nyaruma will not succeed in the attempt .... I have it ...."
With a convulsive effort he sprang to his feet, clutched at the empty air, and uttered one word:
"Makoh'lenga."