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THE GREAT INGOMBOCO.
After this there was quiet until the Feast of the First-fruits was ended.

But few people were killed at these feast, though there was a great Ingomboco, or witch-hunt, and many were smelt out by the witch-doctors as working magic against the king.

Now things had come to this pass in Zululand--that the whole people cowered before the witch-doctors.

No man might sleep safe, for none knew but that on the morrow he would be touched by the wand of an Isanusi, as we name a finder of witches, and led away to his death.