Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-07-03
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When Masilo had spoken, Chaka
sprang up in fury. His eyes rolled, his
face worked, foam flew from his lips,
for such words as these had never Of
Tended his ears since he was king.
For while he gasped, shaking his
small spear, for at first he could not
speak. At length he found words:
1.-THE dog" he Kissed -'the dog, who
dares thus to spit in my facel Hsarken
ALI As with my last breath l COM
mand that this Slaughterer be torn
limb from limb-he and all his tribei
And thOu-thou darest TO bring me this
talk from a skunk Of the mountains!
And thou, too. MOpO-thy name IS
named In it! Well, OF these presently.
Ho. Umxamama, my servant, Stay me
this slave of messenger. swift!
Swift"
Now. the old chief Umxamama sprang
I'D 70 do the kings bidding, but be was
feeble with age, and the end Of 1t was
that Masilo, being mad with fear, killed
Umxamama, not UmXamama MaSiio.
Then Inguazonca, brother OF Unandi,
Mother OF the Heavens. fell upon Mas
Ito and ended him, but was hurt himself
in 80 doing. Now / looked at Chaka,
who stood shaking the little red spear,
though swiftly, for the hour had come.
ssHelp!" l cried. One is Staying the
kingw
As / spoke the reed fence burst asun-
der and through il plunged the princes
Umhlangana and Dingaan as bulls
plunge through a brake.
70 Gthnk0 with nv
withered hand, saying, "Behold your
king"
Now, from beneath the shelter OF his
kaross each prince drew out short
stabbing spear and plunged 1t into the
body of Chaka the king. Umhlangana
smote him on the left shoulder, Dingaan
struck him in the right side. Chaka
dropped the little spear handled with
the red wood and looked around, and
50 royalty that the princes, his brothers,
grew afraid and shrank away from him.
Twice he looked on each; then he
spoke, saying: "What! Do you STAY me,
my brorhers-dogs OF mine own house,
whom l have fed? Do you Stay me,
thinking to possess the land and TO rule
It? tell you IL shall not be for long.
] hear a sound OF running feet--the feet
OF a great white people. They shall
stamp you fat, children Of my father!
They shall rule the land that l have
won, aud you and your people shall be
their slaves"
Thus Chaka spoke while the blood ran
down him 10 the ground, and again he
looked on them royalty, like a buck at
gaze.
make an end o ye who would be
kingsr I cried. But their hearts had
turned to water and they would not.
Then I, MopO, sprang forward aud
picked from the ground that little as
segal handled with the royal wood-the
same assegai with which Chaka had
murdered Unandi his mother and MooSa
nv son-and lifted it on high: and while
lifted it, my father, once more, as when
I was young, a red veil seemed to wave
before ny eyes.
wherefore wouldst thou kill me,
Mopo." said the king.
ss~or the sake Of Baleka, my sister,
HON / swore the deed, and OF all
!" cried, and plunged the spear
Jim. He sank down upon the
hide and lay there dying.
be spoke, and once only, say
Id now that had hearkened
of NObela, who warned me
ee; thou dog" Then he was
ever. But knelt over him
a in his ear the names Of those
Cd who had died at his hands
10 Of Makedama my father, OF
n, Of Anadi my wife, Of MoOsa
and ali my other wives and
and of Baleka my sister. His
open, and 1 think that he saw
rstOod. AT the least, he turned
lside, shut his eyes and groan-
emily he was dead.
hen, my father, did Chaka the
greatest man that over lived
ID, and the most evil, pass by
to those kraals Of the Inkosa-
ere no sleep is. In blood he
had lived in blood. But il is
", as some do, that he died
praying for mercy. Chaka died
lived, brave man.
he was dead and the regiment OF
drew near, nor could 1 know
~ would take this matter, for,
the Prince Umhlangana was
general, yet all the soldiers loved
King because be had no equal in
e, and when he gave he gave with
pen hand. I looked around; the
les stood like men amazed; the girl
fed: the chief UmXamama was
al the hands of dead MaSllO, and
old chief InguazOnca, who had
ed MasilO, stood by hurt and won
iering. There were no others in the
raal
s.Awake, We kingsw I cried to the
rothers; ''the impi is at the gates!
swift, now stab that Ganw-and / point
ID to the old chief-"and leave the mat
GER to my wit"
Then Dlngaan reused himself, and
springing upon Inguanzonca, the broth
er Of Unandi, Smote him great blow
with his spear, so that he sank down
dead without a word. Then again the
princes stood silent and amazed.
"This one will tell no tales" cried
pOinting 20 the fallen chief.
Now arumOr OF the Staying had got
abroad among the women, who had
heard cries and seen the flashing Of
spAers above the fence, and from the
Touidn IL had come TO the regiment Of
the Aes, who had advanced to the gates
OF n y kraal singing. Then OF sudden
the ceased their singing and rushed
taw &rd the little kraal where we stood.
Then ran to meet them, uttering
cries Of woe, holding in my hand the
little assegai of the king red with the
kings blood, and spoke with the cap
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