The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-08-20

day. Nhat a hOrr1ble experience IL Hdlt
been! 1t seemed like nightmare to
look back upon. And yet it was sober
fact, one among those many Tragedies
which dotted the path of the cmlgrant
Beers with the bones of men. women and
children. These horrors are almost for
gotten now; people living in Natal, for
instance, can scarcely realize that some
forty years ago six hundred white peo-
pie, many of them women and chill
dren, were thus massacred by tho lmpls
of Dingaan. But it was so, crd tho
name of the district, Heenc0. c- the
Place Of Weeping, will commemorate
them forever.
Then fell to rejecting on the extra
ordinary adroitness old lndaba-zllnbl
had shown in saving my life. 1t ap-
peared that he himself had lived among
the Umtetwa Zulus in his earlier man.
hood, and was a noted r2in-1octCr and
witch-fnder. But when TChaka, Din
gaan's brother, ordered general
massacre of the witch-tinders, ne mad
fled south and so saved his life. When
he heard, therefore, that the regiment
was an Umtetwa regiment, which, IeaT-
ing their wives and children, had broken
away from Zululand to escape the cruel
ties of Dingaan, he, under pretensc OF
spying on them, took the bold course OF go
ing straight up to the thief, Sususa, and
addressing him as his brother, which he
was. The chief knew him at once, and
so did the soldiers, for his fame was still
great among them. Then he told him
his cock-and-bull story about my being
a white spirit, whose presence IN the
laager would render it inVinciblc, and
with the object Of saving my life IN the
slaughter which he knew must ensue
agreed to charm me out Of the laager
and deliver me into their keeping. How
the plan worked has already been told;
it was risky one; still, but for it my
troubles would have been done with
these many days.
So I lay and thought with heart full
of gratitude, and as did so saw old
Indaba-zimbi sitting by the fire and go
ing through some mysterious perform
dlC6 Will DOHcS: "il4CAi liz P4S~N~S@
from his bag, and ashes mixed with
water. Ispoke to him and asked him
what he was about. lie replied that he
was tracing out the route that we should
follow. felt inclined to answer 'bosh,"
but remembering tine very remarkable
instances which he had given of his
prowess in occult matters, l held my
tongue, and taking little Tota into my
arms, worn out with toll an1 danger and
emotion, went to sleep.
I woke Just as the dawn was begin
ming to fame across the sky in sheets OF
primrose and of gold, or rather it was
little Tota who woke me by kissing me
as she lay between sleep and waking
and calling me papa" 1t wrung my
heart to hear her. l got up, washed.
and dressed the child as best could,
and then we breakfasted as we had
supped, on biltong and biscuit. Tota
asked for milk, but had none to give
her. Then we caught the horses, and l
saddled mine.
"Well, Indaba-zimb BIZ" I said, ''now
what path do your bones point TOP"
'Straight north," he said. THE jour
ney will be hard, but in iour days we
shall come to the kraal of white mar,
an Englishman, not 9 Boer. His kraal
is in beautiful place, and there is a
great peak behind it where there are
many balloons.
I looked at him. "This is all non
sense, Indaba-zinbi, I said. 'WhoeVer
heard of an Englishman building a
house in these wilds, and how do you
know any thing about it? I think that
we had better strike east towards Port
Natal"
Gas you like, Macumazahn," he an
swered, "but it will take us three
months journey to get to Port Natal, if
we ever get there, and the child will
die on the road. Say, Macumazahn,
have my words come true, heretofore, or
have they not? Did I not tell you not