Luckily at this moment, the sun at length came out almost opposite to us.
"O Babemba," I said in a solemn voice, "it is true that this magic shield, which we have brought as a gift to you, gives you another self.
Henceforth your labours will be halved, and your pleasures doubled, for when you look into this shield you will be not one but two.

Also it has other properties--see," and lifting the mirror I used it as a heliograph, flashing the reflected sunlight into the eyes of the long half-circle of men in front of us.

My word! didn't they run.
"Wonderful!" exclaimed old Babemba, "and can I learn to do that also, white lord ?" "Certainly," I answered, "come and try.

Now, hold it so while I say the spell," and I muttered some hocus-pocus, then directed it towards certain of the Mazitu who were gathering again.

"There! Look! Look! You have hit them in the eye.