offerings to the dead."

Followed by Nahoon, Hadden walked to the edge of the cliff and looked
over it. To the left lay the deep and dreadful-looking pool, while close
to the bank of it, placed upon a narrow strip of turf between the cliff
and the commencement of the forest, was a hut.

"Who lives there?" asked Hadden.

"The great _Isanusi_--she who is named _Inyanga_ or Doctoress; she who
is named Inyosi (the Bee), because she gathers wisdom from the dead who
grow in the forest."

"Do you think that she could gather enough wisdom to tell me whether I
am going to kill any buffalo, Nahoon?"

"Mayhap, White Man, but," he added with a little smile, "those who visit
the Bee's hive may hear nothing, or they may hear more than they wish
for. The words of that Bee have a sting."

"Good; I will see if she can sting me."

"So be it," said Nahoon; and turning, he led the way along the cliff
till he reached a native path which zig-zagged down its face.

By this path they climbed till they came to the sward at the foot of the
descent, and walked up it to the hut which was surrounded by a low fence
of reeds, enclosing a small court-yard paved with ant-heap earth beaten
hard and polished. In this court-yard sat the Bee, her stool being
placed almost at the mouth of the round opening that served as a doorway