THE OMEN OF THE WHITE SWALLOW Now Sigwe and two of his captains walked to where the diviners stood and took counsel with them, speaking low and earnestly.

Then he returned and said: "Sihamba, Walker-by-Moonlight, and you, Lady Swallow, listen to me.

A wonderful thing has come to pass in the kraal of Sigwe this day, such a thing as our fathers have not known.

You see that my host is gathered yonder: well, to-morrow they start to make war upon these very Endwandwe of whom you have spoken because of a deadly insult which they have put upon me and my house.

Therefore, according to custom, this morning the soldiers were assembled at dawn to be doctored and that the diviners might search out the omens of the war.