I dismounted and waited while Anscombe, whose foot was now quite well again, helped Heda from the cart which was led away by the servants.

Anscombe, who seemed a little oppressed, remarked that this was a strange place.
"Yes," said Heda, "but it is magnificent.

I like it." Then her eye fell upon Zikali seated before the hut and she turned pale.
"Oh! what a terrible-looking man," she murmured, "if he is a man." The maid Kaatje saw him also and uttered a little cry.
"Don't be frightened, dear," said Anscombe, "he is only an old dwarf." "I suppose so," she exclaimed doubtfully, "but to me he is like the devil." Nombe slid past us.

She threw off the kaross she wore and for the first time appeared naked except for the mucha about her middle and her ornaments.

Down she went on her hands and knees and in this humble posture crept towards Zikali.