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...shaped, fearless Matabele woman of 55 with a jolly face, a searching gaze, a European taste in clothes, and (according to her people) a proved ability to make rain. A white prospector who believed the old legends of buried treasure persuaded her to lead him to the secret burial cave of Lobengula...
...banks of the Manyanda River, north of Bulawayo. There, on high ground where elephants feed and the waters divide to flow toward the Zambesi and the "great, grey-green, greasy Limpopo River," the rain-goddess showed the prospector a great stone. She rolled away the stone, and entered the cave of Lobengula. With the rain-goddess and the prospector was a Matabele named Ginyilitshe. The desecration of the cave filled Ginyilitshe with fear, and he ran straightway to Bulawayo, to a white man trusted by the Matabele: Arthur Huxtable, District Commissioner for Native Affairs...
Commissioner Huxtable knew the legends. He gathered some old men of the tribe who had known the king and set out by car. Ginyilitshe led them through the Lubimbi Valley, an unfriendly place of salt pans, hot springs and emerald rushes, to the cave. Huxtable saw that a stone had indeed been rolled from the mouth of the cave, that intruders had left footprints. He inspected the cave, then called forward the old men of the tribe, standing silent and afraid in this place of spirits. Would they not tell him, now, how Lobengula had died...
After they have fought enough laughs to a draw, it turns out that Cinemactor MacMurray is really no sans-culotte but a brilliantly eligible engineer, complete with a degree and an invention that is tried out in a sensational, muck-drenched cave-in scene, in which the sandhog saves the lady photographer...
...Eighth Army veterans saw a dusky-eyed young woman running, heard her sob: "Stop, stop, oh please stop!" Her story: She was Bonita Caputi, American wife of an Italian officer missing in action. A refugee from Nazi terror, she and her baby daughter had lived with villagers in a cave dug in the Sangro no man's land, had survived eight days & nights of shelling and bombing...