San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-02-08

fight with the balloons. to accompany me
as his nurse.
Slowly, and followed for a distance by
all the people, | trekked away from
Babyan Kra.l,. NJ 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.
lid not sleep much that night And
vet was glad that 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 darlings 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 i, lost to he
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 a Christians: your
father could not make me that. But he
was wise man, and when he said that
those who love each other shall meet
again, he did not lie. And | 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. | tell you that you shall
return to Babyau Kraals and shall not
find me lteli YOU that You shall journey
to a further land than Bahyan KraaIs
and shall lind me. FAREWELL and he
took Il pinch Of snuff. turned and went.
or my Journey down to Natal there is
little to tell. | met with many advcn-
lures, bus they were Of an every day
kind, and in the end arrived safely at
Port Durham, which now visited for
the first time. Both Tota and my baby
boy bore tho journey well. And here |
may as we'll chronicle the destiny of
Tota. For Il 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 Sine grew upa very charming
and pretty girl. and ultimately married
"A clergyman in Norfolk. But never saw
her again, though we often wrote to each
other.
Before | returned to the country of my
birth, she too had been gathered to the
land of shadows, leaving three children
behind her. All me! all this took place
SO long ago, when | was young who now
am old.
Perhaps it may interest the reader to
know the fate Of Mr.. CarsOn's property,
which should Of course have gone to his
grandson Harry. | wrote to England to
claim the estate on his behalf. but the
LAWYER To- whom the matter was sub
mitted said that my marriage to Stella,
not having been celebrated by an or
dained priest, was not legal according to
English law, and therefore Harry could
not inherit. FooliShly enough / acQui-
esced in this, and the property passed to
a cousin of my father in-laws; but since
! have come t" live in England | have
been informed that this opinion is open
to great suspicion, and that there is
every probability that the courts would
have declared the marriage perfectly
binding as having been solemnly entered
into in accordance with the custom of
the place where it was contracted But
am now 50 rich that it is not worth
while to move in the matter. The cou,
sin is dead, his son is in possession. so let
him keep il.
Once. and once only, did | revisit
4tDyau krauio Some fifteen wears after
my lariir-'- death. when | WAS Il man
in middle iiir, undertOUN an "Npedi-
ton 70 the IamOesi, and one night out
spanned at the mouth Of the well known
valley beneath the shadow of the great
peak. mounted my horse, and quite
alone rode up the valley, noticing with
strange prr5cicnce nf evil that the road
was Ovrrgrown, and, save for the music
Of the waterfalls, the place silent as
death. The kraalS that used to he TO the
left of the road by the river had van
ished ! rode towards their site the
mealic fields were Chokcd with weeds,
the paths were dumb with grass. Pres
emily | reached the place. There. over
grown with grass, were the burnt ashes
of the kraais. and there among the ashes
cleaning i'll the moonlight, lay the white
bones Of men. Now it was clear to me.
The settlement had been fallen on by
some powerfui foe, and its inhabitants
put to the aS5cg"i. The forebodingS of the |
natives had come true: Babyan Kraals |
were peOpled by memories alone. |
passed on up the terraces There shone |