The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1890-10-08

motion Of the horse was easy, and she
was worn out.
At last tho sunset came, and we off.
saddled in a dell by the river. There
was not much to eat, but soaked some
biscuit in water for Tota, and Indaba-
zimbi and I made scanty meal off bill
tong. When We had done l took off
Tota's frock, wrapped her up in the
blanket near the fire we had made, and
lit a pipe. 1 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 that
day. What horrible experience it had
been! 1t seemed like a nightmare to
look back upon. And yet it was sober
fact, one among those many tragedies
which dotted the path of the emigrant
Beers with the bones of men, women and
children. These horrors are almost for
gotten now; people living in Natal, for
instance, can scarcely realize that some
forty years ago six hundred white peo-
pie. many of them women and chill
dren, were thus massacred by the Impis
| OF Dlngaan. But 1t was SO, and the
name Of the district, Weenen, or the
Place OF Weeping, will commemorate
them forever.
Then I foil to rejecting on the extra
ordinary 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-inder. But when T'Chaka, Dim
gaan's brother, ordered a general
massacre of the witch-finders, he had
fed south and so saved his life. When
he heard, therefore, that the regiment
was an Umtetwa regiment, which, leav-
ing their wives and children, had broken
away from Zululand to escape tho cruel
ties Of Dingaan, he, under pretense of
spying on them, took the bold course of go
ing straight up to the thief, Sususa, and
addressing him as his brother, which he
was. The chief knew him at once, and
so did the soldiers, for his fame was still
great among them. Then he told him
his cock-and-bull story about my being
a white spirit, whose presence in the
lager would render it invincible, and
with the object of saving my life in the
slaughter which he knew must ensue
agreed to charm me out of the lager
and deliver me into their keeping. How
the plan worked has already been told;
it was risky one; still, but for it my
troubles would have been done with
these many days.
So 1 lay and thought with heart full
of gratitude, and as 1 did SO saw old
Indaba-zimbi sitting by the fire and go
ing through some mysterious perform
ance with bones, which he produced
from his bag, and ashes mixed with
water. l spoke to him and asked him
what he was about. He replied that he
| was tracing out the route that we should
| follow. / felt inclined to answer ''bosh, :"
but remembering the very remarkable
instances which he had given of his
prowess in occult matters, 1 held my
tongue, and taking little Tota into my
arms, worn out with toll and danger and
emotion, went to sleep.
woke just as the dawn was begin
ming to flame across the sky in sheets of
primrose and of gold, or rather it was
little Tota who woke me by kissing me
as she lay between sleep and waking,
and calling me papa" 1t wrung my
heart to hear her. l 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 1 had none to give
her. Then we caught the horses, and
Saddled mine.
''Well, Indaba-zim BIZ" I said, ''now
what path do your bones point to?"
Straight north" he said. 1.-THE jour
ney will be hard, but in four days we
shall come to the kraal of white man,
an Englishman, not a Boer. His kraal
is in beautiful place, and there is
great peak behind it where there are
many balloons"
l looked at him. ''This is all nom
sense, Indaba-zimbi," said. ''Whoever
heard of an Englishman building
house in these wilds, and how do YOU
know any thing about it? 1 think that
we had better strike east towards Port
Natal"
Gas you like, Macumazahn," he an
swered, but it will take US three
months journey to get to Port Natal, if
we ever get there, and the child will
die on the road. Say, Macumazahn,
have my words come true, heretofore, or
have they not? Did 1 not tell you not
to hunt the elephants on horseback?
Did not tell you to take one wagon
with you instead of two, as it is better
to lose one than two?'
You told me all these things" an
swered.
''And so tell you now to ride north,
Macumazahn, for there you will find
great happiness-yes, and great sorrow.
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