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ing character, and prefer to accept the
first alternative.
CHAPTER VI.


CHAPTER VI
was not slow to take Indaba -zimbi's /
hint About a hundred aud fifty yards /
to the left of the lager was a little dell /
where had hidden my horse. together /
with one belonging to the Beers, and my /
saddle and bride. Thither we went, 1 4
carrying the swooning Tota in my arms. /
To our JOY we found the horses safe, for |
the Zulus had not seen them. Now. of /
course, they We're our only means of loco |
motion. for the oxen had been sent away, |
and even had they been there we could |
not have found time to inspan them l |
laid Tota down, caught my horse, undid |
his knee halter and saddled up. As was |
doing so thought struck me. and l told !
Indabazimbi to run TO the lager and see !
if he could find my double-barreled gun
and some powder and shot. for | had only
my elephant ''roer' and few charges of
powder and ball with me.
He went, and while he was away, poor
uttIe TOta came to herself and began to
cry, till she saw my face.
'Ah, have had such a bad dream" she
said, in Dutch; 81 dreamed that the black
Kaf1irs were going to kill me. Where is
my papa?"
Iwinced at the question. Your papa
has gone on a journey, dear" I sad, land
left me to look after you. We shall find
him one day. You don't mind going VITA
Heer Allan, do you?'
No" she said, little doUbtfully, and
began to cry again. Presently she re-
membered that she was thirsty, and asked
for water. led her to the river and she
drank. "Why is my hand red, Heer
Allan?" she asked, pointing to the smear
of Bombyane's blood aimed fingers.
At that moment felt very glad that l
had killed Bombyane.
at is only paint, dear" said; "see we
will wash it and your face"
AS | was doing this, Indaba-zimbi re
turned. The guns were all gone: he said
the Zulus had taken them and the pow
der But he had found some things and
brought them i'll a sack. There was
thick blanket about twenty pounds weight
| of biltong or sun-dried meat, a few dOu-
ble-handfus of ships biscuits, two water
bottles, a tin pannikin, some matches and
suudrieS.
And now, Macumazahn," he said, eve
| had best be going, for these Umtetwas are
| coming back. l saw one of them on the
| brow of the rise"
That was enough for me. ! lifted little
| IoI' oh ~ INC Dt"" VI my 9"",iS' lin"
| ed lh'o II ana 'oue OIL noIuins her III lton'
| OF me. lhuapa-ziiiiol sllPpeq rem Into
tLe IhoC'n u .ne oe9' "' INC DUES MUSES.
III <" 'ie '"I VI 10 On ~ 10 ~
| gun III his hand.
,i1a,o, in ,,-a Ir-oro I,ita o1t If ,,,,r,,, If
| sight from the wagons which Were in a
| hollow Then l pulled up. with such
| faalino of thaDkfnlness in NV heart as
| cannot he told in words. for nov knew
| that. mounted rs we were, those black
| daroDs could never catch ms
! But where were we TO steer fore 7 mt
the ourstfon to Ipiaba-zimbi asking him
| if he Thought that we had better try and
| follow the oxen that we had sent away
! with the X lfTjrs aliI women on the pre-.
| cpdinu nf,-at He shook his head
..,rho I-,ntatyy,s will ,,o after fine oxen
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e,o,, n,,I,,,,j, ,,r dom ,,
80, .......,., ,.;,l, 49,.
80 e' ~, -
Lnu tI', Il never """U - Sc ''uo'ilel'
pur leie arc we ~ Got leIs we arc
W. o.lo : '.u ',.' III ~
an 80 az 'e1N'' " nioH way S""'i "o
e,.a A',S,9 w tI"'l', :, O',e n", ~ I
daho ,i,,,I,f. ..1o+ nc I'm raa,, tra,,, ~
y1ords ti,o ,,,rtl, iGaa,, SI,o,,,,,,,,h,,.
I,.IIIs1,-i,-
| i'7H' " iieH VIC oli -''''Ul0 VIZ NUN ~
| " ,"' ,ll"''ci.
~ an '''"' loliS ''lI'tloo we l'''T olI'
| !, NV i"7 ''c C'"''S VI '"N
| ''S y, 'ii0 Si'''"'' "S I'"i" T"'' -
o'o" ~ ""c "elolc sunset """ INC '"'
Nlac'lon OF knowing that lhere must De
"O leaSI twenty-five mines bet"te, us
ana IhoSe accufseh Iulus. l4ltIle 1ota
SlePU most OIL uhe way, Ihe hholoh OIL Ihe
morse was easy ana She was worn GU.
~ l"SI Lhe sunset came ana we Oh -s5'u-
uieu III "eL d! the river. 1heFe WIS hoC
lhuch 10 eal, puI soake" some biscuit III
""cer ZOE IoIa' ana lhdapa-zIhpl ana l
lld'ie ScahIy meal OH plItoh&. men
we H'" "oHe LOOK OH Iot' lfoCN, wrap
| - up !" Oii0 D!"llN'C he"i 'h0 h'0
W. H'N ll'ue' tlu III pipe sal 'hcle
ny Ihe sue Oh me orphaned chlld' ana
from my hearI lnahked HroFidehce lor
s"'InS heI me aiI mine from me Sl"u@Li-
" nv q ii0i - ,'t
cue ~ H,'" oeen' II Secll'e" nhe nlS"E
mare 70 look oach upon. Ana yet IL was
SopeE IiGl' one among ILose many Ira4
cures men uolteu the pain ol lHe ehlf
| m ''
men ana children. These horrors are al
most forgotten now; people living in Natal,
lor instance, can scarcely realize that
some forty years ago SIN hundred white
people, many OF them women and chill
dren, were thus massacred by the lmpis
ut Dlngaan. But 1t was so. and the
name oil the district Wcehcn, or the Place
Of weeping, VIII commemorate them for
| ever.
Then fell to rejecting on the extraOr-
7nUN Il III s@ wing my me 1t appeared tuaI
Zulus in his earlier manhood. and was n
1880 -. n.