"You white men are very clever, but you don't quite know everything.

There are men in the world who can make people believe they see things which they do not see.

Let us be going while we may, for when those Umtetwas have got over their fright, they will come back to loot the waggons, and then perhaps _they_ will begin asking questions that I can't answer." And here I may as well state that I never got any further information on this matter from old Indaba-zimbi.

But I have my theory, and here it is for whatever it may be worth.

I believe that Indaba-zimbi _mesmerized_ the whole crowd of onlookers, myself included, making them believe that they saw the assegai in my heart, and the blood upon the blade.