The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-06-04


rest at last in the same heaven, the
heaven from which they came. Now
go, Macumazahn."
asked him if he was coming with me.
"No," he answered, -FOUR paths lie
apart henceforth Macumazahn. We
met together for certain ends. Those
ends are fulfilled. Now each one goes
his own way. You have still many years
before you, Macumzahn. my years are
few. When we shake hands here it will
be for the last time. Perhaps we may
meet again, but it will not be in this
world Henceforth we have each of us
friend the less"
"Heavy Words" said.
"True Words" he answered.
Well, l have little heart to write of the
rest of it. went, leaving Indaba-zimbi
in charge Of The place, and making him
a present of such cattle and goods as
did not want.
Tota, of course took with me. For
tunately by this time she had almost re-
covered the shock to her nerves. The
baby Harry, as he was afterwards named,
was fine healthy child, and was lucky
in getting a respectable native woman,
whose husband had been killed in the
fight with the balloons, to accompany me
as his nurse.
Slowly, and followed for a distance by
all the people, | trekked away from
Ba5yan Kraals. My route towards Natal
was along the edge of the bad lands, and
my first nights outspan was beneath
that very tree where Stella, my lost wife,
had found us as we lay dying of thirst.
did not sleep much that night. And
yet was glad that 1 had not died in the
desert about eleven months before.
felt then. as from year to year have
continued to feel while wander through
the lonely wilderness of life, that have
been preserved to an end. / had won
my darling's love, and for little while
we had been happy together. Our hap
piness was too perfect to endure. She is
lost to me now, but she is lost to be
found again.
Here on the following morning babe
farewell to Indaba-zimbi.
"Good-by, Macumazahn," he said, nod
ding his white lock at me. "Good-by
for while am not Christian; your
father could not make me that But he
was a wise man, and when he said that
those who love each other shall meet
again, he did not lie. And l too am a
wise man in my way, Macumazahn; and
say it is true that we shall meet again.
All my prophecies to you have come
true, Macumazahn, and this one shall
come true also. l tell you that you shall
return to Babyan Kraals and shall not
find me. | tell you that you shall journey
to further land than Babyan Kraals
and shall find me. FAREWELL" and he
took pinch of snuff turned and went.
Of my journey down to Natal there is
little to tell | met with many adven-
lures, but they were of an every day
kind, and in the end arrived safely at
Port Durham, which l now visited for
the first time. Both Tota and my baby
boy bore the journey well. And here
may as we'll chronicle the destiny of
Tota. For year she remained under
my charge. Then she was adopted by a
lady, the wife of an English colonel, who
was stationed at the Cape. She was
taken by her adopted parents to Eng
land, where she grew upa very charming
and pretty girl, and ultimately married
aclergyman in Norfolk. But never saw
her again, though we often wrote to each
other
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