As for the reason why you have been brought here, tell it to us, O Zikali.

Who are we that we should instruct you in the ways of wisdom ?" When the dwarf heard this he broke into one of his great laughs.
"So at last the House of Senzangakona acknowledges that I have wisdom.
Then before all is done they will think me wise indeed." He laughed again in his ill-omened fashion and went on hurriedly, as though he feared that he should be called upon to explain his words: "Where is the fee?
Where is the fee?
Is the King so poor that he expects an old Dwandwe doctor to divine for nothing, just as though he were working for a private friend ?" Panda made a motion with his hand, and ten fine heifers were driven into the circle from some place where they had been kept in waiting.
"Sorry beasts!" said Zikali contemptuously, "compared to those we used to breed before the time of Senzangakona"-- a remark which caused a loud "Wow!" of astonishment to be uttered by the multitude that heard it.
"Still, such as they are, let them be taken to my kraal, with a bull, for I have none." The cattle were driven away, and the ancient dwarf squatted himself down and stared at the ground, looking like a great black toad.

For a long while--quite ten minutes, I should think--he stared thus, till I, for one, watching him intently, began to feel as though I were mesmerised.
At length he looked up, tossing back his grey locks, and said: "I see many things in the dust.

Oh, yes, it is alive, it is alive, and tells me many things.

Show that you are alive, O Dust.