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her till she fell and was torn to pieces
by them. After this the senses of I'm
blopogaas left him again.
At length his mind came back to him,
and he saw that he lay i'll cave upon q
bed of grass, while all about him were
the skins of beasts and at his side was a
pot filled with water. He drank of the
water, and then he saw that his arm
was wasted as with sickness, and that
his breast was thick with scars scarcely
skinned over
Now while he lay and wondered the
mouth of the cave was darkened, and
through it came that same lad who had
done battle with the lioness and been
overthrown by her, bearing dead buck
upon his shoulders. He put down tho
buck upon the ground, and walking to
where Umslopogaas lay looked upon him.
"Ou!" he said, "your eyes are open
do you, then, live, strangers"
II live" answered Umslopogaas, "and
am hungry"
1T is time" said tho other; "since
with toll l bore you here through the
forest, for twelve days you have lain
without sense, drinking water only.
Twice | was near to killing you, that
,ou might cease to suffer and | to be
;roubled, but held my hand because of
word which came to me from one who
is dead. Now eat, that your strength may
return to you. Afterward we will talk"
And afterward as they sat at night by
he fire in the cave, they spoke together.
How are you named:' asked UNI
lopogaas of the other.
Il am named Galazi the Wolf" he
answered, land | am of Zulu blood-ayc,
of the blood of Chaka, the king; for the
father of Senzangacona, the father of
Chaka was my great-grandfather."
"Whence, then, came you, Galazi?"
Il came from Swaziland-from tho
tribe of the Halakazi. which | should
rule. This is the story: Siguyana, my
grandfather, was a younger brother of
Senzangacona, the father Of Chaka but
ne quarreled with Senzangacona and
became q wanderer. With certain of
the people of the Umtetwa he wandered
INTO Swaziland and soiOurncd with the
Halakazi tribe in their great caves, and
he end of it was that he slew the chief
f the tribe and took his place. After
re was dead my father ruled III his
place, but there was a great party in
;he tribe that hated his rule because he
was of the Zulu race, and it would have
set up chief Of the old Swat blood in
his place. Still, they could not do this,
for my fathers hand was heavy on the
people, Now was the only son of my
father by his head wife and should be
chief after him, and therefore those of
the Swat party-and they were many
and great-hatcd me also.
so matters stood till last year in the
winter, and then my father set his heart
upon killing twenty Of the headmen,
| with their wives and children, because
he knew that they plotted against him.
| But the headmen learned what was to
nomc and they prevailed upon a wife Oh
| my father-a woman Of their own blood
to poison him. So she poisoned him
IN the night, and III the morning it was
told me that my fathcr lay sick and
sIlmmorcd NE, and | Went to ny father.
IN his hut found him, and he was
writhing with pain
Wv hat is it my father" said. WHO
has done this evil|
lit is this, my SON he caspcd, that
am poisoned, and yondcr she stands
who has done the deed and no pointed
to the woman.
Nov the girl was young and fair
and we had been friends, yet | say that
Il ! en-,
IN me. | did not pause, but Selling my
spear ran at her and, though she clieC
for mercy, | killed her with the spear.
THAT was well done, Galazi, said my
father. But when l am gone look tC
yourself, my son, for these Swat dog.
will drive you out and rob you of you
place! But if they drive you out anC
you yet live, swear this to me, that yol
will not rest till You avengo me-
81 swear it, my father answered
1 swear that | will stamp the men O
tho tribe Of Halakazi fat, every one 0
them except those Of my own blood an,
bring their women to slavery and thei
children to bonds"
Zig words for young month"; sal,
my father. Yet you shall live to brini
these things about, GalaZi. This know
Of You now in my hour of death; yol
shall be a wandcrer for the few years O
your life, child of Siguyana, an
wandering in another land You shall di
mans death, and not such death a
yonder witch has given to me- The
with great groan he died,
Now passed out, dragging the bod
of the dead girl after me. In front c
the hut We're gathered many headmcl
and | saw that their looks were sullcl
1.-THE chief, my father, is deadn
cried, and /, Galazi, who am the chic
have slain her who murdered himr an
| rolled the body Of tho girl over so tina
they might look upon her face
"Now, the father of the girl wa
among those who stood before me; h
had brought her to the deed and HI
heart was maddened at the sight
"'What, my brothers, he cried, 'sha
we suffer that this young Zulu dog /
chief over us? Never! The old lion
dead; now for the cub" and he ran
mo with spear alOft,