How can two witch doctors battle for tribal supremacy in the middle of a lightning storm?

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And now, The Battle of the Witch Doctors

by H. Rider Haggart. Among the kafirs was an old fellow named Indaba Zimbi, which being translated means tongue of iron.

I suppose he got his name from his strident voice and exaltless eloquence.

This man was a great character in his way. He had been a noted witch doctor among the

neighbouring tribe and I met him under the following circumstances.

Two years before my father's death, I had occasion to search the country round for some lost oxen.

After a long and useless quest, it occurred to me that I had better go to the place where the oxen were bred by a

Kefir chief, whose name I forget, but whose crawl was about 50 miles from our station.

There I journeyed and found the oxen safe at home.

The chief entertained me handsomely, and on the following morning I went to pay my respects to

him before leaving and was somewhat surprised to find a collection of some hundreds of men and women sitting round him anxiously watching the sky,

in which the thundercloud were banking up in a very ominous way.

You had better wait, white man, said the chief, and see the rain doctors fight the lightning.

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