That will be soon, Macumazahn, since Zikali told me that I am the last Holder of the Axe." "Did you then see the Opener-of-Roads ?" I asked.
"Aye, I saw him.

He it was who told me which way to go to escape from Zululand.

Also he laughed when he heard how the flooded rivers brought you to my kraal, and sent you a message in which he said that the spirit of a snake had told him that you tried to throw the Great Medicine into a pool, but were stopped by that snake, whilst it was still alive.

This, he said, you must do no more, lest he should send another snake to stop _you_." "Did he ?" I replied indignantly, for Zikali's power of seeing or learning about things that happened at a distance puzzled and annoyed me.
Only Hans grinned and said, "I told you so, Baas." On we travelled from day to day, meeting with such difficulties and dangers as are common on roadless veld in Africa, but no more, for the grass was good and there was plenty of game, of which we shot what we wanted for meat.

Indeed, here in the back regions of what is known as Portuguese South East Africa, every sort of wild animal was so numerous that personally I wished we could turn our journey into a shooting expedition.
But of this Umslopogaas, whom hunting bored, would not hear.