Still, it is not laid upon the prince to accompany through this trial.

Let him stay here, and I alone will stand beneath the cross." "Stay, Nodwengo," implored the old man.
"I did not think to live to hear my father bid me, one of the royal blood of the Amasuka, to desert my captain in the hour of battle and hide myself in the grass like a woman," answered the prince with a bitter smile.

"Nay, it may be that death awaits me yonder, but nothing except death shall keep me back from the venture." "It is well spoken," said the king; "be it as you will." Now the company of wizards, leaving their medicine-pots upon the ground, formed themselves in a treble line, and marching to where the king stood, they saluted him.

Then they sang the praises of their god, and in a song that had been prepared, heaped insult upon the God of the white man and upon the messenger who preached Him.

To all of this Owen listened in silence.
"He is a coward!" cried their spokesman; "he has not a word to say.