“The vows we take in the holy place bind us till we are purged of them at Inanda's Kraal. Till then no blood must be shed and no flesh eaten. It was the fashion of our forefathers.”
Source: Prester John (1910), Ch. IX
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Deeds Rather Than Words (1963)
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