I had to draw all the healthy strength and life from my body in order to gather power to speak with the Star.

It was a dangerous business, Macumazahn, for if I had let things go a little further they must have stopped so, and there would have been an end of Indaba-zimbi.

Ah, you white men, you know so much that you think you know everything.

But you don't! You are always staring at the clouds and can't see the things that lie at your feet.
You hardly believe me now, do you, Macumazahn?
Well, I will show you.
Have you anything on you that the Star has touched or worn ?" I thought for a moment, and said that I had a lock of her hair in my pocket-book.

He told me to give it him.