Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-01-12

my dE4LS. 20 CuI joy we LOunQ lii
horses safe. for the ZuIus had not see
tham. Now, OF course, they were on
only means of locomotior- for the oxe-
had been sent away, and even had the
been there we could not have found tim
10 inspan them.
I Laid Tota down, caught nv horse
undid his knee halter and saddled UP
As was doing 50 a thought struck me
and 1 told Indaba-zinbi to run TO tn,
lager and see Il he could find my doubl
barreled gun and some powder anC
shot, for had only my elephant .sroer'
and few charges OF powder and bal
with me.
Ee went, and while he was away, pool
little Tota came to herself and began t.
crF, TIL she saw my face.
"Ah, have had such a bad dream, :
she said, IN Dutch; 81 dreamed that the
black Ka99rS were going to kill me.
Where is my papa?"
WINGED at the question. "Your papa
has gone On a journey, DEAR" I said,
"and left me 20 look after you We
shall find him one day. You don't mind
going with Heer Allan, do yo@l?'
NO" she said. Little doubtfully, and
began to cry again. Presently she re-
membered that she was thirsty, and
asked for water. I led her TO the river
and she drank. 'Why is my hand red.
Heer AllanG" she asked, pointing to the
smear Of Bombyane's blood stained
fingers.
At that moment felt very glad that
I had killed Bombyane.
1T is only paint, dear" I said; 'see,
we VII wash it and your face"
As l was doing this, Indaba-zinbi re-
turned. The guns were all gone; he
aid the Zulus had taken them and the
powder. But he had found some things
and brought them in a sack. There was
> thick blanket, about twenty pounds
weight Of biItong or sun dried meat,
few double ha12dfuLs of ships biscuits,
two water bottles, tin pannikin, some
matches and suIidries-
AID nov, Macunazanr," he said,
''w4 had best be going. for those Umtet-
1z9, are coming back. l saw one of them
a the brow Of the rise"
That was enough fog me. lifted little
Tota on to the bow of my saddle, climbed
into it and rode of. holding her in front
Of ne. Indaba-Zn1bi slipped rein into
the mouth Of the oest OF the Boer horses,
threw the sack OF sUnd-ies on to its back
and mounted atsc- holding the elephant
gun in his hand We went eiylt or nine
hundred yards d. silence till we were
cutie OFT OF rorCe OF sight from, tbe wac--
ors. which were IN 4 hollow. Then l
pulled up, with such feeling of thank
fulneSs in my heart as cannot be told In
words; for now I knew that, mounted as
we were. those black demons could never
catch US. But where were we TO steer
fog? l put the question to inda0a-zinbi,
asking him If he thought that we had
better nv and follow the oxen that we
had sent away with the A&Girs and wo-
men on the preceding night He shook
his head
THE Umtetv-as VIII go after the oxen
presently" ire answered, land we have
seen enough Of them"
Quite enough. l answered with en-
thusiasm: Il never want TO see another;
but where are we TO 90? Here we are
with one Gun and little girl in the vast
and lonely yeldt Which way shall we
turn"
"Our faces were towards the north be-
fore we met me Zuius. answered Indaba
ziInbi: "let US still keep them towards
the north. Ride on. Macumazahn; to-
night when we oET-saddle / wall LOOK into
the matter
So ali that long afternoon we rode on.
following TIE course Of the river. From
the nature of the ground we could only
go slowly, but before sunset | had the
satisfaction Of knowing that there must
De at least twenty-five miles between Us
and those accUrsed Zalus. Little Tota
slept most OF the way, the motion Of the
horse was easy. and she was worn out.
At last the sunset came, and we Off
saddled in dell by the river. There
was not much to eat, bat / soaked some
biscuit IN water for Tota. and Indaba-
Zmbi and made a scaEty meal of bill
tong. When we had done l took off
Tota's frock. wrapped her up in the
blanket near the tire we had made and
lit pipe. / sat there by the side of the
orphaned child, ana from my heart
thanked Providence for saving her life
and mine from the slaughter of that
day. What a horrible experience it had
been! 1t seemed ike a nightmare to
look back upon And vet il was sober
fact, one among those many tragedies
which dotted the paths of the enigrant
Beers with the bones Of men. women
and children. These horrors are almost +
forgotten now; people living in Natal. .
for instance. can scarcely realize that
some forty years ago 500 white people, .
many of them women and children. /
were thus massacred by the impis at .
Dingaan. But It was so. and the name !
of the district. Weenen. or the Place of /
Weeping, viii commemorate them for
ever.
Then | fell 70 rejecting on the e1-
traordinary adroitness old Indaba-zimbi /
had shown IN saving my life. 1t ap-
peared that he himself had lived among /
the Umtetwa Zulus in his earlier man
hood. and was noted rain doctor and /
witch finder. But when TChaka. Din
gaan's brother. ordered a general massa-
Gre OF che witch finders he had fed south
and so saved his life. When he heard,
therefore. thst the regiment was an Una