simply be reported as one of the slain.

"And now, as I took in thoroughly the situation, I reckoned that I must
have covered a long distance in pursuit of the flying Baputi; for I
could not find the outlet by which I had emerged, though more than once
I nearly fell headlong into a black fissure or hole which, well-nigh
hidden in the long grass, yawned for the bodies of men. These pits,
_Nkose_, were ugly to look upon, so straight and black did they go down.
And the depth! _Whau_! I would drop a stone in and listen, but it
seemed long before any sound was heard, and then so far down. Nor was
that all; for again I would hear it farther down still, and yet again,
till it was enough to chill a man's blood to listen, such was the depth
of these black and horrible holes. And so many of them were there that
the difficulty of finding the one by which I had come up would be very
great.

"Yet this must be done, for by the flat formation of the mountain, and
the height and straightness of the cliffs that belted it, I feared there
was no way hence but that by which I had come; and could I even find
this, now that the heat of battle was over, I relished not the task of
creeping back alone through that gruesome cavern in the darkness,
treading over those stark and piled-up corpses both of our warriors and
of our foes. _Hau_! that would be a feat of terror indeed. And then
came back to me the visions I had beheld in the _muti_ bowl of old
Masuka, and I, who feared no man, nor any number of men coming against
me with spear and shield, now trembled. For had not his magic so far
proved true--the mountain, the dark crowd of men swarming like ants up
the slope, the crash and splitting of the rock, the towering cloud of
dust? _Ou_! it was terrible. The first vision had been fulfilled
exactly as I had beheld it in the bowl. In the heat of the assault, the
fierceness of the battle, I had lost sight of this; but now it came back
with renewed force. As to the other visions also, my memory was
strangely beclouded, yet that they too would befall I doubted not.

"Now, as I explored the summit of the mountain, I did so warily, and not
showing myself over-much at the edge, for it might well be that some of
our enemies had escaped and called together others of the tribe, if
others there were, and these, catching sight of me from beneath, might
well waylay and kill me by whatever way I might manage to descend. Also
I proceeded cautiou