San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-08-17

the houses of strangers ana their Chi.
dren to bonds! Year by year and month
by month and night by night, as have
lain alone upon the Ghost mountain yon-
der, have wondered how l might bring
my oath to pass, and found no way.
Now it seems that there is a way, and !
am glad. Yet this is a great adventure,
and perchance before it is done with the
People of the AK will be no more"
And he ceased and took snuff, watching
our faces over the spoon.
"Galazi the Wolf" said Umslopogaas.
''for me also the matter has another
face. You have lost your father in the
hands of these Halakazi dogs, and.
though till last night | did not know it.
| have lost my mother by their spears.
and with her one whom l loved above
all the world, my sister NADIA, who
loved me also Both are dead. and the
Halakazi have killed them. This man,
the mouth of Dingaan," and he pointed
to me, Mopo, this man says that if
can stamp out the Halakazi and make
captive of the Lily maid shall win the
heart of Dingaan. Little do care for
Dingaan, who would go my way alone
and live while may live, and die when
| must, by the hands of Dingaan as by
those of another-what does it matter?
Yet, for this reason, because of the
death of Macropha my mother and
NADIA, the sister who was dear to me,
will make war upon these Halakazi and
conquer them or be conquered by them.
Perhaps, o Mouth of Dingaan, you will
see me soon at the kings kraal on the
Mahalabatine, and with me the Lily
maid and the cattle of the Halakazi; or
perhaps you shall not see me, and then
you will know that l am dead and the
warriors of the AK are no more"
So we parted to return to Dingaan
and tell him that Bulalio, chief of the
People of the AK, had gone up against
the Halakazi to win the Lily maid and
bring her to him in atonement while
Umslopogaas remained to make ready
his impi for war.
went swiftly from the Ghost noun
tain back to the kraal Umgugundhlovu.
and presented myself before Dingaan,
who took me by the hand and said that
| had done well. Now he saw that it
was my purpose to rake this Halakazi
fire with another hand than his, and he
thanked Inc.
Moreover, he said that if this chief of
the People of the AK brought him the
maid his heart desired, not only would
he forgive him the words he had
spoken by the mouth of Masilo to the
Black One who was dead, but also all
the cattle of the Halakazi should be his,
and he would make him great in the
land. answered that all this was as
the king willed. | had but done my
duty by the king and worked so that,
whatever befell proud chief should be
weakened and foe should be attacked
at no cost to the king, in such fashion
also that perhaps it might come about
that the king would shortly have the
Lily at his side.
Then sat down to wait what might
befall.
Now it is, my father, that the white
men come into the story whom we
named the Amaboona, but you call the
Beers.
Before this time, indeed, few white
men had come to and fro to the kraals
of Chaka and Dingaan, but these came
to pray and not to fight.
Well, when had been back from the
Ghost mountain something less than a
moon, the Beers came, sixty of them,
commanded by a captain named Retief,
a big man, and armed with roers-the
long guns they had in those days-or
perhaps they numbered a hundred in all,
counting their servants and after riders.
This was their purpose: To get grant
of the land in Natal that lies between
the Tugels and the Umzimoubu rivers.
But, by my counsel and that of other
indunas, Dingaan bargained with the
Beers that first they should attack a
certain chief named Sigomyela, who had
stolen the kings cattle and who lived
near the Quathlamba mountains, and
bring back the cattle. This the Beers
agreed to, and went to attack the chief
and in little while they came back
again, having destroyed the people of
Sigomyela, and driving his cattle before
them as well as those which had been
stolen from The king.
The face of Dingaan shone when he
saw the cattle, and that night he called
us, the council of the Amapakati, to-
gether and asked US as to the granting
of the country. l spoke the first, and
said that it mattered little if he granted
it, seeing that the Black One who was
dead had already given it to the Eng
lish, the People of George, and the end
of the matter would be that the Anna
boona and the People of George would