At last we reached the Valley of GaModjadji in what is now South Africa, and there in the head kraal of the Lovedu people Queen Modjadji V received us in a formal audience. (We didn't photograph her because her image is considered sacred; but she did look a little like the medicine woman of Great Zimbabwe.) Wearing the royal leopard skin, she sat grandly upon her throne--a red leatherette La-Z-Boy recliner--and uttered cryptic messages for us to convey to the western world. Days later, as we rested in this similar village in Lesotho, we still puzzled over the meaning of the great Queen's oracle.
