Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-07-10
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into the mind of the Slaughterer.
s.What!' she said; do you not live here
In peace and plenty, and must you go TO
make war on those who have not HARM
ed you, there perhaps to perish or come
to other i'll? You say you do this town
girl for Dingaan and to find favor In
his sight. Has not Dingaan girls more
than he can count? 1t is more likely that
| wearying of Us, your wives, you go to
win girls for yourself, Bulalio. and as
for finding favor, rest quiet; so shall
YOU find most favor. II the king sends
his impis against you then 1t will be
time to fight, o fool with little wit"
Thus Zinita spoke to him, and UNI
| slopanaas could not challenge her 10
battle. =,
Now on the third day all the fighting
| men were gathered, and there might
have been two Thousand OF them, good
men and brave. Then Umslopogaas
went out to them and spoke to them,
telling them of hfs adventure, and Ga
lazi the Wolf was with him.
Now great shout rose from every
throat.
1--WE will go with you, Bulalio, to VIC
DRY or DEATH"
So on the morrow they went and trav-
eled fast, and after awhile entered the
territory of the Halakazi. At dawn
Umslopogaas looked out over the wide
plains beyond and Galazi showed him
| long, low hill, two hours march away.
''There, my brother" he said, sis the
head kraal OF the Halakazi, where was
born, and in that hill is the great cave.
Then they went on, and before the
sun was high they came to the crest OF
rise and heard the sound OF horns on
the farther side of the rise. They, stood
upon the rise and looked. and 10! yet far
off and running toward them, was the
whole impi OF the Halakazi, ana IL was
a great impi.
Then Umslopogaas and Galazi made
ready for the battle. They posted all
the young men in the broken ground
above the bottom of the slope, for these
could best be spared TO the spear, and
Galazi the wolf took command OF them;
but the veterans staid upon the hillside,
and with them Umslopogaas.
Now the Halakazi came on, and there
were four full regiments OF them; the
plain was black with them and the air
was rent with their shoutings, and like
lightnings flashed their spears. On the
| farther side of the slope they halted and
sent herald forward to demand what
! the People Of the AK would have or
theml The Slaughterer answered that
| they would have three things: First, the
head of their chief, whose place Galazi
should fill henceforth; second, that fair
maid whom men named the Lily; third,
thousand head of cattle. II these
! things were granted then he would
| spare them, the Halakazi; If not, he
would stamp them fat and take ALL
So the herald returned, aud whom he
reached the ranks OF the Halakazi he
| called aloud his answer. Then a great
roar Of laughter went up from the Hala-
kazi-a roar that shook the earth. The
brow of Umslopogaas, the Slaughterer,
burned red beneath the black when he
heard it. and he shook Groammaker to-
ward their host.
Eye shall sing another song before
this sun is set" he cried, and strobe
along the ranks speaking to this man
and that by name. and lifting up their
hearts with great words"
Now the Halakazi raised shout and
charged.
1t was soon done when once 1t was
| begun. Some were fed and some were
| dead, and this was the end OF that light.
No, no; not of all the fight. The Hal
akazi were worsted in the field, but
many lived to win the great cave, and
| there must the work be finished. Thith-
/ ~
with such OF his impi as was left to him.
Alas! many were slain. But how could
they have died better than in that fight?
Also those that were left were as good
as all, for now they knew that they
hould not be overcome easily while Ak
and Club still led the way.
Now they stood before hill measure
| ing perchance three thousand PAGES
round its base. 1t was OF no great
height and yet unclimbable, for after a
man had gone up little way the sides
of it were sheer, offering no foothold to
the rock rabbits and lizards. No one
was to be seen without this hill, nor in
the great kraal OF the Halakazi that lay
! to the east of it, and yet the ground
about this was trampled with the hoofs
of oxen and the feet of men, and from
within the mountain came the sound OF
lowing cattle.
"Here is the nest OF the Halakazl,"
ouoth Galazi the Wolf.
Here is the nest indeed" said UNI
slopogaas, shut how shall we come at
the eggs to suck them? There are no
branches to this tree"
"But there is a hole In the trunk"
answered the Wolf
Now he led them little way till they
came to place where the soil was
trampled at the entrance to cattle
kraal, and they saw that there was a
low cave that led into the cliff like n
archway such as you white men build.
But this archway was filled up with
great blocks Of stone placed upon each
other in such fashion that it might not
be forced from without. After the cat
tie were driven in it had been filed up.
''Not here may we enter" said Gal
I'll; "follow me-"
So they followed him and came to the
! north side of the mountain, and there,
two spear casts away, soldier was
standing. But when he saw them he
vanished OF sudden.
There is the place." said Galazi,
"and the fox has gons to earth in it,"
Now they ran to the spot and saw
little hole in the rock scarcely bigger
than an ant bears burrow, and through
the hole came sounds and some light.
Now where is the hyena who will
try a new burrow?" cried Umslopogaas.
"a hundred head of cattle to the man
who wins through and clears the way"