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my father, | sample_1 | |
therefore, | sample_2 | |
I offer it to you. | sample_3 | |
you knew his brother Panda and his captains, | sample_4 | |
his servant, | sample_5 | |
who slew him with the Princes. | sample_6 | |
you have crowned their kings and shared their counsels, | sample_7 | |
a song has been sung in my ears of how first you mastered this people of the Zulu. | sample_8 | |
And when they grew weary, | sample_9 | |
did you not stand and say, | sample_10 | |
pointing towards the ocean: | sample_11 | |
Kill me if you wish, | sample_12 | |
but I tell you that for every drop of my blood a hundred avengers shall rise from yonder sea! | sample_13 | |
Then, | sample_14 | |
so it was told me, | sample_15 | |
the regiments turned staring towards the Black Water, | sample_16 | |
your name became great among the people of the Zulu, | sample_17 | |
as already it was great among many another tribe, | sample_18 | |
the royal salute, | sample_19 | |
Why did you do this, my father? | sample_20 | |
I will answer, who know the truth. | sample_21 | |
You did it because, | sample_22 | |
had it not been done, | sample_23 | |
Perhaps it had been better to leave it, since | sample_24 | |
"Death chooses for himself," | sample_25 | |
and after all there was killing-of our own people, | sample_26 | |
But in those days we did not guess what we should live to see, | sample_27 | |
it will be forgotten, | sample_28 | |
Only your name will not be forgotten; | sample_29 | |
as it was heard in life so it shall be heard in story, | sample_30 | |
however humbly, | sample_31 | |
mine may pass down with it. | sample_32 | |
and I must leave the ways of action that I love and bury myself in books, | sample_33 | |
but the old days and friends are in my mind, | sample_34 | |
nor while I have memory shall I forget them and you. | sample_35 | |
Elephant that is not turned! | sample_36 | |
You who nursed us from of old! | sample_37 | |
You who overshadowed all peoples and took charge of them, | sample_38 | |
Help of the fatherless when in trouble! | sample_39 | |
PREFACE The writer of this romance has been encouraged to his task by a purpose somewhat beyond that of setting out a wild tale of savage life. | sample_40 | |
When he was yet a lad,-now some seventeen years ago,-fortune took him to South Africa. | sample_41 | |
There he was thrown in with men who, | sample_42 | |
for thirty or forty years, | sample_43 | |
had been intimately acquainted with the Zulu people, | sample_44 | |
with their history, | sample_45 | |
and their customs. | sample_46 | |
From these he heard many tales and traditions, | sample_47 | |
perhaps, | sample_48 | |
are rarely told nowadays, | sample_49 | |
and in time to come may cease to be told altogether. | sample_50 | |
now that nation has been destroyed, | sample_51 | |
and the chief aim of its white rulers is to root out the warlike spirit for which it was remarkable, | sample_52 | |
and to replace it by a spirit of peaceful progress. | sample_53 | |
perhaps the most wonderful that the world has seen, | sample_54 | |
is already a thing of the past; | sample_55 | |
building it up from the smallest beginnings. | sample_56 | |
When he appeared at the commencement of this century, | sample_57 | |
it was as the ruler of a single small tribe; | sample_58 | |
when he fell, | sample_59 | |
in the year eighteen twenty eight, | sample_60 | |
as he is called also, | sample_61 | |
and in his march to power he had slaughtered more than a million human beings. | sample_62 | |
so no more need be said of them here. | sample_63 | |
has been to convey, | sample_64 | |
in a narrative form, | sample_65 | |
and to make accessible, | sample_66 | |
in a popular shape, | sample_67 | |
incidents of history which are now, | sample_68 | |
only to be found in a few scarce works of reference, | sample_69 | |
rarely consulted, | sample_70 | |
It will be obvious that such a task has presented difficulties, | sample_71 | |
and think with the mind and speak with the voice of a Zulu of the old regime. | sample_72 | |
their details have, therefore, been suppressed. | sample_73 | |
Still much remains, | sample_74 | |
may be invited to leave this book unread. | sample_75 | |
indeed nearly all, | sample_76 | |
for the reason given, | sample_77 | |
and that he prophesied of the coming of the white man after receiving his death wounds. | sample_78 | |
it is impossible to speak so certainly. | sample_79 | |
but he cannot discover any confirmation of it. | sample_80 | |
these kings undoubtedly put their soldiers to many tests of equal severity. | sample_81 | |
Umbopo, or Mopo, as he is named in this tale, actually lived. | sample_82 | |
Then he disappears from the scene, | sample_83 | |
but it is not accurately known whether he also went | sample_84 | |
which has been considerably varied to suit the purposes of this romance. | sample_85 | |
Among the Zulus and Amatongas. | sample_86 | |
"I heard a story the other day," | sample_87 | |
he says, | sample_88 | |
I might have worked up into a first-class sensational novel. | sample_89 | |
It is the story that has been woven into the plot of this book. | sample_90 | |
it was told to Mister Leslie by the Zulu who performed the feat and thereby won a wife. | sample_91 | |
Also the writer's thanks are due to his friends, | sample_92 | |
late Zulu border agent, | sample_93 | |
for much information given to him in bygone years by word of mouth, | sample_94 | |
formerly treasurer to the Government of Natal, | sample_95 | |
whose compilation, | sample_96 | |
"The Annals of Natal," | sample_97 | |
"Watcher of the Fords," | sample_98 | |
is an historical weapon, | sample_99 | |
He was an arbitrary person, for | sample_100 |
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