San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-07-30
CHAPTER X.
THE TALE OF GALAZI THE WOLF.

MIN.
The honess bounded away, and in her
mouth was Umslopogaas. Once he strug-
gled, but she bit him hard, so he lay
quiet in her mouth, and looked back and
saw the face of NADIA as she ran from
the fence of thorns, crying ''Save him."
He saw her face, he heard her words,
then he saw and heard little more, for
the world grew dark to him, and he
passed, as it were, into a deep sleep.
Presently Umslopogaas awoke again,
feeling pain in his thigh where the lion.
ess had bitten him, and heard sound of
shouting. Helooked up; near to him stood
the honess that had loosened him from
her jaws. She was snorting with rage,
and in front of her was a lad-a lad long
and strong, with a grim face and a
VOLTS hide, black and gray, bound about
his shoulders in such fashion that the
upper jaw and teeth of the wolf rested
ON his head. He stood before the lioness,
shouting, and in one hand he held large
war shield and in the other he grasped a
heavy club shod with iron.
Now the ioness crouched herself to
spring, growing terribly, but the lad
with the cir did not wait for the spring.
He ran in upon her and smote her on the
head with the club, yet did not kill her,
for she reared herself upon her hind legs
and struck at him heavily. He caught
the blow upon his shield, but the shield
was driven against his breast so strongly
that he fell backward beneath the shield.
Then the liOness sprang upon him and
worried at him. Still, because of the
shield, as yet she could not come to
him to Stay him. But Umslopogaas saw
that this might not endure, for present.
ly the shield would be torn aside and
the stranger must be killed. Now, in
the breast of the honess yet stood tho
half of Umslopogaas' broken spear and
the blade of it was span deep in her
breast. SO he rose swiftly, ran to where
the lioness worried at him who lay be-
meath the shield and, Selling the haft
of the broken spear, drove it deep into
her and wrenched it around. Now she
turned, roaring, and clawed at him,
tearing his breast and arms. Then, as
he lay, he heard a mighty bowling, and
behold! gray wolves and black leaped
upon the iOness and rent and worried
her till she fell and was torn to pieces
by them. After this the senses of UNI
slopogaas left him again.
At length his mind came back to him,
and he saw that he lay in cave upon
bed of grass, while all about him were
the skins of beasts and at his side was a
pot filled with water. He drank of the
water, and then he saw that his arm
was wasted as with sickness, and that
his breast was thick with scars scarcely
skinned over.
Now while he lay and wondered the
mouth of the cave was darkened, and
through it came that same lad who had
done battle with the lioness and been
overthrown by her, bearing a dead buck
upon his shoulders. He put down the
buck upon the ground, and walking to
where Umslopogaas lay looked upon him. |
"Ou!" he said, ''your eyes are open
do you, then, live, stranger
~ live" answered Umslopogaas, "and |
am hungry"
ut is time" said the other; "since |
with toll l bore you here through the |
forest, for twelve days you have lain |
without sense, drinking water only. |
Twice l was near to killing you, that |
troubled, but l held my hand because Of |
a word which came to me from one who
is dead. Now eat, that your strength may
return to you. Afterward we will talk"
And afterward, as they sat at night by
the fire in the cave, they spoke together.
"How are you named?' asked I'm
slopogaas of the other.
81 am named GalaZi the Wolf" he
answered, land am of Zulu blood-aye,
of the blood of Chaka, the king; for the
father of Senzangacona, the father of
Chaka, was my great-grandfather."
whence, then, came you, GalaZi"
81 came from Swaziland-from the
tribe of the Halakazi, which | should
rule. This is the story: Siguyana, my
grandfather, was a younger brother of
the father of Chaka, but
he quarreled with Senzangacona and
became a wanderer. With certain of
the people of the Umtetwa he wandered
into Swaziland and sojourned with the
Halakazi tribe in their great caves, and
the end of it was that he slew the chief
of the tribe and took his place. After
he was dead my father ruled in his
place, but there was a great party in
the tribe that hated his rule because he
was of the Zulu race, and it would have
set up chief of the old Swat blood in
his place. Still, they could not do this,
for my fathers hand was heavy on the
people. Now l was the only son of my
father by his head wife and should he