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on that spot have | seen lnany one
who had done no wrong Pray to king
of men for mercy, but have never seen
but one who found it. Gu! The words
of Chaka havo come true. | will tell
them to you presently, my father. The
white man holds the land; he goes to
and fro about his business of peace
where impis ran forth to kill; his children
laugh and gather flowers where men
died in blood by hundreds; they battle
in the waters of the Imbozamo, where
once the crocodiles were fed daily with
human flesh; his young men WOO the
maidens where other maids have kissed
the assegai, 1t is changed, nothing is
the same, and of Chaka are left only a
grave yonder and q name of fear
Now after Chaka had come to the
Duguza kraal, for awhile he sat quiet;
then tho old thirst for blood came on him
and he sent his impis against the people
of the Pondos, and they destroyed that
people and brought back their cattle.
But the warriors might not rest. Again
they were doctored for war and sent out
by tens of thousands to conquer Sotyan-
CANA, chief Of the people who live north
of the Limpopo. They went singing
after the king had looked upon them and
hidden them return victorious or not at
all Their number was so great that
from the hour Of dawn till the sun was
high in the heavens they passed the gates
of the kraal like countless herds of cattle
they the unconquered. Little did they
know that victory smiled on them no
more; that they must die by thousands
of hunger and of fever in the marshes Of
the Limpopo, and that those of them who
returned should come with their shields
in their bellies, having devourcd their
shields because Of their ravenous hunger!
But what of them? They were nothing.
Dust was the name Of one Of the great
regiments that went out against Sotyan-
CANA, and dust they were-dust to be
driven to death by the breath Of Chaka,
Lion Of the Zulu.
Now few men remained in the kraal
| Duguza, for nearly all had gone with
the impi, and only women and aged
people were left. Dingaan and Umhlan-
CANA, brothers Of the king, We're there,
for Chaka would not suffer them to de-
part, fearing lest they should plot
against him. and he looked on them al
ways with an angry eye, so that they
trembled for their lives, though they
dared not show their fear lest fate
should follow fear. But | guessed it,
and like snake | wound myself into
their secrets, and we talked together
darlilv and in hints. But Of that pres
entity, my father, for l must tell Of tht
coming Of Nasilo; he who would have
wed Zinita and whom Umslopogaas tho
SlaugLtercr had driven out from the
kraals of the People Of the Az.
1t was on the day after the impi ha(
left that Masilo came to the kraal Du
guza, craving leave to speak to the king
Challa sat before his hut and with hin
were Dingaan and Umhlaugana, hi
royal brothers, | was there also, anC
certain of the Indunas, counselors o
the king. Chaka was weary that morn
ways did. Therefore, when one tolC
him that q certain wanderer nance
Masilo would speak with him, he did no
command that the man should i've killed
but babe them bring him before him
Presently there was Il sound of praising
and | saw a fat man much worn Wit
travel, who crawled through the dus
toward us, giving tho sibOnga, namin
the king by his royal names. Chak
babe him cease from praislng and tel
his business.
Then the man sat up and told all tina
tale which you have heard, my father