San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-08-11

were no others in the kraal
Awake, We kingsv / cried to the
brothers; "the impi is at the gates!
Swift, now stab that mainland point
ed to the old chief-"and leave the mat
ter to my wit"
Then Dingaan reused himself, and
springing upon Inguazonca, the brother
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 to the fallen chief.
Now rumor of the Staying had got
abroad among the women, who had
heard cries and seen the flashing of
spears above the fence, and from the
women it had come to the regiment of
the Bees, who had advanced to the gates
of the kraal singing. Then of a sudden
they ceased their singing and rushed
toward 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
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tains in the gate, saying:
Lament, We captains and We soldiers,
weep and lament, for your father is no
more! He who nursed you is no more!
The king is dead. Now earth and
heaven will come together, for the king
is deadr'
"How so, Mopo?" cried the leader of
the Bees. "How is our father dead?'
He is dead by the hand of wicked
wanderer named Masilo, who, when he
was doomed to die by the king, snatched
this assegai from the kings hand and
stabbed him; and afterward, before he
could be cut down himself by us three,
the princes and myself, he killed the
chiefs Inguazonca and Umxamama also.
| Draw near and look on him who was
the king; it is the command of Dingaan
and Umhlangana, the kings, that you
draw near and look on him who was the
king, that his death at the hand of
Masilo may be told through all the
| land"
Now my tale is not of the reign of
Chaka, but of the lives of a handful of
people who lived in those days, and of
whom | and Umslopogaas alone are left
alive-if indeed Umslopogaas, the son
of Chaka, is still living on the earth.
Therefore in a few words l will pass
over all that came about after the fall
of Chaka and till l was sent down by
Dingaan, the king, to summon him to
surrender to the king who was called
the Slaughterer and who ruled the Peo-
pie of the AK. All! would that had
known for certain that this was none
other than Umslopogaas, for then had
| Dingaan gone the way that Chaka
went and which Umhlangana followed,
and Umslopogaas had ruled the people
of the Zulus as their king. But, alas!
my wisdom failed me. paid no heed
to the voice of my heart which told me
that this was UmslOpOgaas who sent
the message to Chaka threatening venge-
ance for one Mopo, and | knew moth
ing till too late; surely, thought, the
man spoke of some other Mopo. For
thus, my father, does destiny make
| fools of us men.
This came about, my father. Matters
were made straight in the land after the
death of Chaka. At first people said
that Masilo, the stranger, had stabbed
the king; then it was known that Mopo,
the wise man, the doctor and body serv-
ant of the king, had slain the king,
and that the two great bulls, his broth
ers Umhlangana and Dingaan, children
of Senzangacona, had also lifted spears
against him. But he was dead and earth
and heaven had not come together. So
what did it matter? Moreover the two
new kings promised to deal gently with
the people and tighten the heavy yoke
of Chaka, and men in a bad case are
always ready to hope for better. So
it came about that the only enemies the
princes found were each other and
Engwade, the son of Unandi, Chakas
half brother. But l, Mopo, who was
now the first man in the land after the
kings, ceasing to be a doctor and becom-
ing a general, went up against Engwade
with the regiment of the Bees and the
regiment of the Slayers and smote him
in his kraals. 1t was a hard fight, but
in the end l destroyed him and all his
people. Engwade killed eight men with
his own hand before l slew him. Then
l came back to the kraal with the few
that were left alive of the regiments.
After that the two kings quarreled
more and more, and | weighed them
both in my balance, for l would know
which was the most favorable to me.
In the end l found that both feared me,
but that Umhlsngana would certainly
put me to death if he gained the upper
hand, whereas this was not yet In the
mind of Dingaan. So l pressed down
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