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noble beast, but his throat was parched and he could do nothing but reach down and touch the fallen eland. Nicholas had written in them in his bizarre handwriting, but now the pages were blank. ' The ostrich eggs must be reserved for those frightening days when there were no roots. On the morning of the seventeenth day Nxumalo saw two phenomena that he would always remember; they were as strange to him as the u

' 'How do I protect myself?' 'Integrity is a good shield. 'But the soil-will good vines grow thereT De Pr~ asked. ' He placed his hand on Nxumalo's arm and said, 'Until you've seen Zimbabwe, you live in darkness. The Dutch were honest Calvinists who took their religion seriously, and the drowsy rooms in Batavia contained many persons whose forefathers had died protecting their religion.