The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-01-19

had been sent away, and even had they
been there we could not have found time
to inspan them.
/ laid Tota down, caught my horse,
undid his knee halter and saddled up.
AS was doing so thought struck me,
and l told Indaba-zimbi to run to the
lager and see if he could find my double
barreled gun and some powder and
shot, for had only my elephant ''roer"
and few charges of powder and ball
with me.
He went, and while he was away, poor
little Tota came to herself and began to
cry, till she saw my face.
''Ah, I have had such a bad Dream"
she said, in Dutch; II dreamed that the
black Kaffirs were going to kill me.
Where is my papa?"
WINGED at the question. "Your papa
has gone on journey, DEAR" I said,
''and left me to look after you. We
shall find him one day. You don't mind
going with Heer Allan, do your
"No," she said, a little doubtfully, and
began to cry again. Presently she re-
membered that she was thirsty, and
asked for water. led her to the river
and she drank. ''Why is my hand red,
Heer Allan?" she asked, pointing to the
smear of Bombyane's blood stained
fingers.
At that moment felt very glad that
L had killed Bombyane.
1T is only paint, DEAR" said; 'see,
VIZ, will ,,-,c1, fo
As l was doing this, Indaba-zimbi re-
turned. The guns were all gone; he
said the Zulus had taken them and the
| powder. But he had found some things
and brought them in sack. There was
thick blanket, about twenty pounds
weight of biltong or sun dried meat, a
few double handfuls of ships biscuits,
two water bottles, tin pannikin, some
matches and sundries.
"And now, Macumazahn," he said,
1--WE had best be going, for those Umtet-
was are coming back. 1 saw one of them
on the brow of the rise"
That was enough for me. 1 lifted little
Tota on to the bow of my saddle. climbed
into it and rode off, holding her in front
of me. Indaba-zimbi slipped rein into
the mouth of the best of the Boer horses
threw the sack of sundries on to its back
and mounted also, holding the elephant
gun in his hand. We went eight or nine
hundred yards in silence till we were
quite out of range of sight from the wag-
ons, which were In a hollow. Then +
| Cd III, Of l.
fulness in my heart as cannot be told in
words; for now / knew that, mounted as
we were, those black demons could never
1 catch us. But where were we to steer
for? put the question to Indaba-zimbi,
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
''The Umtetwas will go after the oxen
presently" he answered. "and we have
seen enough Of them"
"Quite enough" answered with en-
thusiasm; II never want to see another
with one gun and a 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 Indaba
zimbi; "let us still keep them toward:
the north. Ride on, Macumazahn; to
night when we of-saddle will look into
the matter"
So all that long afternoon we rode on
following the course of the river. From
the nature of the ground we could only
go slowly, but before sunset l had thu
satisfaction of knowing that there mus
be at least twenty-five miles between u.
and those accursed Zulus. Little Tot;
slept most of the way, the motion of tn
, horse was easy, and she was worn out.
At last the sunset came, and we off
, saddled in dell by the river. Their
was not much to eat, but soaked som
biscuit in water for Tota, and Indaba
zimbi and made scanty meal off bill
tong. When we had done I took OF
Totals frock, wrapped her up in tn
blanket near the fire we had made AM
Lit pipe. l sat there by the side of th
9 orphaned child, and from my hear
, thanked Providence for saving her lif
and mine from the slaughter Of tina
q day. What a horrible experience it ha
been! It seemed like a nightmare t
+ look back upon. And yet it was sobe
fact, one among those many tragedie
7 which dotted the paths of the emigran
, Beers with the bones Of men, wome
and children. These horrors are almos
r forgotten now; people living in Nata
a for instance, can scarcely realize tina
a some forty years ago 600 white people
o many of them women and children
+ were thus massacred by the impis g
= Dingaan. But it was so, and the nam
7 OF the district, Weenen, or the Place {
c Weeping, will commemorate them fol
ever.
n Then fell to rejecting on the e1
h traordinary adroitness old Indaba-zimt
a had shown in saving my life. 1t al
peared that he himself had lived anon
&c the Umtetwa Zulus in his earlier maj
!. hood, and was a noted rain doctor an
q witch finder. But when T'Chaka, Din
q gaan's brother, ordered general mass;
!. ere of the witch finders he had fled sout
"a and SO saved his life. When he heart
II therefore, that the regiment was an Un
,: tetwa regiment, which, leaving the
+ wives and children, had broken ava
d from Zululand to escape the cruelties {
d Dingaan, he, under pretense of spyin
on them, took the bold course of goir
straight UP to the chief, Sususa, and a,