A great people were they. They conquered till none were
left to conquer, and then they dwelt at ease within their rocky mountain
walls, with their man servants and their maid servants, their minstrels,
their sculptors, and their concubines, and traded and quarrelled, and
ate and hunted and slept and made merry till their time came. But come,
I will show thee the great pit beneath the cave whereof the writing
speaks. Never shall thine eyes witness such another sight."
[*] The name of the race Ama-hagger would seem to indicate a
curious mingling of races such as might easily have occurred
in the neighbourhood of the Zambesi. The prefix "Ama" is
common to the Zulu and kindred races, and signifies
"people," while "hagger" is an Arabic word meaning a stone.
--Editor.
Accordingly I followed her to a side passage opening out of the main
cave, then down a great number of steps, and along an underground shaft
which cannot have been less than sixty feet beneath the surface of the
rock, and was ventilated by curious borings that ran upward, I know not
where.
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