Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-02-01

through some myBtof10uo performances
with bones, which he produced from hi
bae. and ashes mixed with water.
smoke 10 him and asked what no waa
about lie replied that he was tracing
out the route that we should follow.
felt inclined to answer "bosh, but re1
membering the very remarkable INF
stances which no had given OF hiS
prowess In occult matters, I held my
tongue, and taking little Tota into my
arms, worn out with toll and danger and
emotion, went to sleep
Invoke just as the dawn was beginning
to flame across the sky In sheets Of prim.
rpse and Of gold. or rather Il was little
Tota who woke me by kissing mo as she
lay between sleep and waking, and call
ing me Papa" II wrung my heart 10
hear her. got up, washed and dressed
the child as best I could, and then we
breakfasted as we had supped, on biltong
and biscuit. Tota asked for milk, but !
had none to give her. Then we caught
the horses, and saddled minc
"well, Indaba-x -ximbi." said, now
what path do your bones point TOT"
'Straight north,n he said. The jour.
ney will be hard, but In four days we
shall come to the kraal OF white man,
an Englishman, not Boer. His kraal
is in o beautiful place, and there is
great peak behind It where there are
many balloons"
looked at him. "This Is all nonsense,
Indaba- -zimbi," said. "Whoever heard
OF an Englishman building a house in
these wilds, and how do yoa know any
thing about III ] think that we had
better strike east towards Port Natal"
"As you like, Macumazahn," he an.
swered, "but It will take us three months
journey TO get to Port Natal, u we ever
get there, and the child,will die on the
road. Say. Macumazahn. have my words
come truo heretofore, or have they not?
Did not tell you not TO hunt the ele-
plants on horseback Did not tell you
to take ono wagon with you instead of
two, as II Is better TO lose one than twoT'
"You told me all these things" an.
swercd.
"And 10 tell you now to ride north,
Macumazahn, for there you will find
great happiness-yes, and great sorrow,
But no man should run away from hap
piness because Of sorrow. As you will,
as you willl'
Again looked at him In his divina-
tions did not believe, but yet came TO
.he conclusion tn, 4 he u'os sros kin0 What
he knew to be the truth. It struck mo
- possible that he might have heard OF
some white man living like hermit
in the wilds. but prcferring to keep up
his prophetic character would not say 30.
every well, Indaba-zimbi," said;
''let US ride north"
I Shortly after we started, the river we
had followed hitherto turned of in a
westerly direction, 30 we left 1t. All
that day we rode across rolling uplands,
and about an hour before sunset halted
at little stream which ran down from o
range Of hills In front Of US. BY this
time WINS heartily tired Of the biltong,
20 taking my elephant rifle--for had
nothing else-I left Tota with 1ndaba-
ximbi, and started to SEQ IL could shoot
something. Oddly enough we had seen
no game all the day, nor did we see any
on the subsequent days. For some
mysterious reason they had tempo
rarily left the district. I crossed the
little strcamlet In order to enter
the belt of thorns which grew
upon the hillside beyond, for there I
hoped to find buck. As did 30 was
rather disturbed to see the spoor Of two
lions In the soft, sandy edge of a pool
Breathing q hope that they might not
still bo In tho neighborhood, went on
into the belt Of scattered thorns. For q
long while hunted about without seeing
anything, except one dinker buck, which
bounded of with crash from the other
side of o stone without giving me q
chance. At length, just as 1t grew dusk,
spied o Petite buck, q graceful little
creature, scarcely bigger than large
hare. standing on stone, about forty
yards from me. Under ordinary cir
cumstancesI should never have dreamed
Of firing at such o thing, especially with
an elephant gun, but we were hungry.
So sat down with my back against q
rock, and aimed steadily at its head. !
did this because IL struck 1t In the body
the three-ounce ball would have knocked
it to bits. At last l pulled tho trigger,
the gun went off with the report of q
small cannon, and tho buck disappeared.
! ran to the spot with more anxiety than
] should have felt in an ordinary way
over koodoo or an Gland. To my delight
there the little creature lay--the huge
bullet had decapitated it. Considering
all the circumstances, do not think
have often made better shot than this,
but II any one doubts, let him try his
hand at a rabbits head fifty yards away
with an elephant gun and a athree-ounce
ball.
Ipicked up the petite In triumph and
returned to the camp. There we skinned
him and toasted him over the fire. He
just made good meal for us, keeping
the hind legs for breakfast.
There was no moon that night, and sc
II chanced that when i suddenly remem.
bered about the lion spoor, and suggested
that we had better tie the horses quite
close to us, we could not find them
though we knew that they were grazing
within fifty yards. This being SO, we
could only make up the fire and take oui
chance. Shortly afterwards l went tc
sleep with little Tota in my arms. Sud
denly was awakened by hearing thai
peculiarly painful sound, the scream OF
q horse. quito close to the fire, which
was still burning brightly. Next second
there came q noise OF galloping hoofs
and before I could even rise my poor
horse appeared in the ring Of freight
As in flash Of lightning, saw his star
ing eyes and wide stretched nostrils, and
the broken rein with which he had beer
knee haltered flying in the air. Also J
saw something else, for on his back was
q great dark form with glowing eyes
and from the form came q growing
sound. 1t was lion.
The horse dashed on. He gallopet