Chapter 5

A spear-head dropped to his throat and pricked him sorely. He collapsed in a panic and was incapable of resistance, as two strong women bound him foot and hand. They laid the forty-seven males of Kobala’ba, fan fashion, about the palaver house, and T’lini, the chief’s wife, spoke. “Tibbetti, the son of Sandi, told us this tale,” she said, looking down at the horrified face of her husband, who was the victim nearest to her. “_Cala cala_ all the bee women worked and gathered their magic from flowers, and the bee men …