San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-08-03

level TO his feet. GalaZl looked on Um-
slopogaas at his side and grinned.
"You do not run so i'll, my brother,
who have been sick of late. See now if
you can outrun me! Who shall touch
the quarry first?"
Now the bull was ahead by two spear
throws. Umslopogaas looked and grin
ned back at Galazi. "Goodw he cried.
away"
They sped forward with bound, and
for awhile it seemed to Umslopogaas as
though they stood side by side, only the
bull grew nearer and nearer. Then he
put out his strength and the swiftness
of his feet, and 10! when he looked again
he was alone, and the bull was very
near. Never were feet so swift as those
of Umslopogaas. Now ne reached the
bull as he labored ON. Umslopogaas
placed his hands upon the back of the
bull and leaped; he was on him; he sat
him as you white men sit horse Then
he lifted the spear in his hand and drove
it down between the shoulders to the
spine, and of sudden the great buffalo
staggered, stopped and fell dead.
Then GalaZi came up. "Who, now,
is the swiftest, Galazi," cried Umslopo-
gaas, 81, or you or your wolf host?"
"You are the swiftest, Umslopogaas,"
said Galazi, gasping for his breath.
"Never did man run as you run, nor
ever shall again"
Now the wolves came up and would
have torn the carcass, but Galazi beat
them back. Then Galazi said, "Let us
cut meat from the bull with spear"
So they cut meat, and when they had
finished, Galazi motioned to the wolves
and they fell upon the carcass. In a
little while nothing was left except the
larger bones, and yet each wolf had but
a little.
Then they went back to the cave and
slept.
Afterward Umslopogaas told Galazi
all his tale, and Galazi asked him if he
would abide with him and be his broth.
er, and rule with him over the wolf kind,
or seek his father Mopo at the kraal of
Chaka.
Umslopogaas said it was rather in his
mind to seek his sister NADIA, for he was
weary of the kraal of Chaka, but he
thought on NADIA day and night.
where, then, is NADIA, your sister,
asked Galazi.
''She tarries in the caves of your PEG.
pie, Galazi; she tarries with the Hala.
kali"
"Stay awhile, Umslopogaas, cried
Galazi; "stay till we are men indeed
Then we will seek this sister of your:
and snatch her from the caves of the
Halakazi."
Now the desire of this wolf life had
entered into the heart of UmslOpogaas
and he said that it should be so, and or
the morrow they made them blood
brethren to be one till death, before all
the company of the ghost wolves, and
the wolves howled when they smelled
the blood of men. In all things hence.
forth these two were equal, and the
ghost wolves hearkened to the voice Of
both of them.
Now when Umslopogaas had abode
some moons in the Witch mountain, on
a night he dreamed of NADIA, and awak.
ening soft at heart bethought him that
he would learn tidings concerning me,
his father, Mopo, and what had befallen
me and her whom he deemed his moth
er, and NADIA, his sister, and his other
brethren. So he dressed himself, hid.
ing his nakedness, and, leaving Galazi
descended to the kraal where the old
woman had dwelt, and there gave it out
that he was young man, a chiefs son
from a far place, who sought a wife.
The people of the kraal listened to him,
though they held that his look was fierce
and wild, and one asked if this were
Galazi the Wolf-Galazi the Wizard.
But another answered that this was not
Galazi, for their eyes had seen him,
Umslopogaas said that he knew nothing
of Galazi and little of wolves, and 10.
while he spoke there came an impi OF
fifty men and entered the kraal. I'm.
slopogaas looked at the leaders of the
impi and knew them for captains Of
Chaka. At first he would have spoken
to them, but his Ehlose babe him hold
his peace. So he sat in the corner of the
big hut and listened. Presently the head.
man of the kraal, who trembled with
fear, for he believed that the impi had
been sent to destroy him and all that
were his, asked of the captain what was
his will.
ga little matter and vain," said the
captain. 1--WE are sent by the king to
search for certain youth, Umslopogaas,
son of Mopo, the kings doctor. Mopd
gave it out that the youth was slain by
a lion near these mountains, and Chaka
would learn if this be true"
1--WE know nothing of the youth, "
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