In fact, the only person who did not appreciate our black arts was Imbozwi himself.

I caught a look in his eye as he marched off which told me that he hated us bitterly, and reflected to myself that perhaps I had been foolish to use that burning-glass, although in truth I had not intended to set his head on fire.
"My father," said Mavovo to me afterwards, "it would have been better to let that snake burn to death, for then you would have killed his poison.
I am something of a doctor myself, and I tell you there is nothing our brotherhood hates so much as being laughed at.

You have made a fool of him before all his people and he will not forget it, Macumazana.".