Kaänga is tricked by the leader of a band of pearl thieves into freeing two of her accomplices from the lake dwellers.; Wambi's friend, Lari, is expelled from his tribe because he will not participate in a ritual devised by the witch doctor Gwanda, in which an elephant is tortured to death. Wambi helps him return to his village and exposes the witch doctor as a coward.; Trader Swartz's nephew, von Weil, plots to murder him in order to inherit his trading station. He is foiled by Camilla and Trader Davis.; A witch resurrects the body of the recently dead chief Ma Wali and sends him on a murderous rampage through the village.; During a drought, Simba drinks all the contents of a small pool of water in order to have the strength to defeat the rhinoceros that has claimed a larger pool.; Terry rescues the kidnapped daughter of a sultan.; Brief natural histories of the waterbuck, the white tailed gnu, the klipspringer, the red fronted gazelle, the sable antelope, Grant's antelope, the beisa oryx, and the kudu.