The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-04-09

| Al CldL. IllOIll0Hl 5l6lL very SlAu Gllstl
| had killed. Bombyane. ID
1T is only paint. dear" said: ',see,
we will wash it and your face" j :
AS Twas doing this. Indaba-zimbi re-
turned The guns; were all gone; he
said the Z,lIus had taken. them and the
powder But he had found some things
and. brought. them IN, a. sack; There was
a thick blanket, about twenty pounds
weight of ,biltong or SUE dried meat, a
few double handfuls of ships biscuits.
two, water bottles, tin pannikin. some
matches and. sundries. 80. ~ sra3i ssl&
And now. .sMacumazahn," he said.e
we had best be goings for those Umtet-
was are coming back.7;I saw one of them
on the brow of the rise ~
That was enough for, me. lifted little
Tota on to the bowof; my saddle, climbed
into it and rode off, 5llolding her in front
of. me. Indaba-zimbi slipped arein into
the mouth of the best of the Beer horses,
threw the sack Of sundries on to it's back
and mounted also, holding the elephant
gun in his hand. We went eightor nine
hundred yards in silence till we weret.
quite out of range Of sight from the wag-
ons, which were in a hollow. Then T.
pulled up, with such a. feeling of thank
fuincss in my heart as cannot be told in
words; for now knew that, mounted as
we were, those black demons could never
catch us But where were'we to- steer
for? put the question to IndaIsa-zinbi,
asking him if he thought that we had
Better try and follow the oxen that we
had sent away with the Kaffirs and wo-
men on the preceding night. He shook
his head. y. -" :" - y
1.-THE Umtetwas will 90 after the oxen
presently" he answered; land we have
seen enough of them. ny .
Quite enough. / answered with en-
thusiasm: II never want to see another;
but where are we 't3 60? Here we are
with one gun and Il little girl in the vast
and lonely veldt Which way shall we
turn?" = =
''Our faces were towards the north be-
fore we met the Zulus, " answered. Lndaba.5
zinlbi; ''let us. still keep them towards
the north Ride on, Macumazahn; to-,
night when we otf-saddleI will look into
the matter - ~ >>t-c*,- 49,; - rlS>>
So all that hong afternoon we roleton.#
following the course Of the river From
the nature of the ground we could, only
go slowly, but before. sunset i had the
satisfaction of knowing that there must
be at least twenty-five miles between us
and those accursed .Zulus. 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 3
saddled in dell by the river There
was not much to eat, but soaked some
biscuit in water for Tota, and InHaiaa,
zimbi and made scanty meal off bill
tong. When we had done 4 took, off
Totals frock, wrapped her UP i'll 1.-The
blanket near the fire we had made and
lit q pipe. sat there by the side Of the
orphaned child, and from my heart
thanked Providence for saving her life
and mine from the slaughter of thai
day. What Il horrible experience it had
been! 1t seemed like a. nightmare 20
I look back, upon And yet it 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 600 white. people
many of them women and children.
were thus massacrad, By he9impis at
Dingaan. But it was SO, and the name