Of whom do you speak ?" "That is the trouble, Macumazahn.

I do not know.

This lion, or rather lioness, lies hid in the caves of a very distant mountain and I have never seen her--in the flesh." "Then how can you talk of what you have never seen ?" "In the same way, Macumazahn, that your priests talk of what they have never seen, because they, or a few of them, have knowledge of it.

I will tell you a secret.

All seers who live at the same time, if they are great, commune with each other because they are akin and their spirits meet in sleep or dreams.