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CHAPTER XII
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As a matter of fact he had only come to tell me that our meal was ready and that the other "high White Ones" were waiting for me.
He led me round the fence that encircled Zikali's dwelling-place, to two huts that stood nearly behind it, almost against the face of the rock which, overhanging in a curve, formed a kind of natural roof above them.

I thought they must have been built since I visited the place, as I, who have a good memory for such things, did not remember them.

Indeed, on subsequent examination I found that they were quite new, for the poles that formed their uprights were still green and the grass of the thatch was scarcely dry.

It looked to me as if they had been specially constructed for our accommodation.
In one of these huts, that to the right which was allotted to Anscombe and myself, I found the others waiting for me, also the food.

It was good of its sort and well cooked, and we ate it by the light of some candles that we had with us, Kaatje serving us.
Yet, although a little while before I had been desperately hungry, now my appetite seemed to have left me and I made but a poor meal.


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