The people believed that it was the voice of a god speaking to them,
so they used to come and pray to him for advice, and the old villain
told them that they must rise up and murder all the white people, and
their chief, Lobengula, who had long been dead, would come to life and
lead them against their enemies once more.
He had nearly persuaded them to come out on the war-path, when
Burnham, the American scout, made his way into the secret part of the
cave and shot the supposed god while he was preaching murder.
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CARTS IN SICILY.
A curious thing that strikes you in Sicily is the kind of cart and
harness used by the country people.
[Illustration: A SICILIAN PAINTED CART AND DECORATED HARNESS.]
The cart is a light, two-wheeled affair of an ordinary kind, but every
inch of it inside and out as far as the ends of the shafts and down
the spokes of the wheels, is painted in gaudy colours, for the most
part yellow, blue, red, and green.
Pictures of incidents in Bible history, of the war against the Turks
in Tripoli, of ballet dancers, etc.
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