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


though Chaka felt the touch he did not
hear the words that were for my ears
alone.
"Mopo, son of Makedama," said the
low voice, "stay thy hand; the cup of
Chaka is not full. When for the third
time thou seest me riding down the
storm then smite, Mopo, my child"
Thus she spoke, and cloud swept
across the face of the moon. When it
passed she was gone, and once more
was alone with Chaka, with the night
and the dead
Chaka looked up, and his face was
gray with the sweat of fear.
"Who was this, Mopo?" he said in a
hollow voice.
This was the lnkosazana of the Heav-
ems, she who watches ever over the peo-
pie of our race, o king, and who from
time to time is seen of men ere great
things shall befall"
Il have heard speak of this queen"
said Chaka. Wherefore came she now,
what was the song she sang and why
did she touch me with a spear?
'She came, . king, because the dead
hand of Baleka summoned her, as thou
sawest. The song she sang was of
things too high for me, and why she
touched thee on the forehead with the
spear ! do nos know, o king. Perchance
it was to crown thee chief of a yet
greater realm"
Yea; perchance to crown me chief of
a realm of death"
That thou art already, Black One"
| answered, glancing at the silent mul
titude before us and the cold shape of
Baleka.
Again Chaka shuddered. Come, let
us be going, Mopo," he said. Now l
have learned what it is to be afraid"
early or late, Fear is guest that all
must feast, even kings, o Earth Shaker"
answered, and we turned and went
homeward in silence.
Now after this night Chaka gave it
out that his kraal Of GibamaXegu was
bewitched, and bewitched was the land
of the Zulus, because he might sleep no
more in peace, but woke ever crying out
with fear and muttering the name of
Baleka. Therefore in the end he moved
his kraal fan away, and built the great
town of Duguza here in Natal
Look now, my father! There on the
plain far away is a place of the white
men-it is called Stanger. There, where
is the white mans town, stood the great
kraal Duguza. cannot see, for my
eyes are dark; but you can see Where
the gate of the kraal was built there is
house. 1t is the place where tho white
man gives out justice. That is the place
of the gate of the kraal through which
justice never walked. Behind is an
other house, where the white men who
have sinned against him pray to the
King of Heaven for forgiveness. There
on that spot have | seen many a 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 have 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 i'll blood by hundreds; they battle |
in the waters of the lmbozamO, 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 name of fear.
Now after Chaka had come to the
Duguza kraal, for awhile he sat quiet;
then the 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
should come with their shields
in their bellies, having devoured 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
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