The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-12-01

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 Inkosazana of the Heav.
ems, she who watches ever over the peo-
Pile of our race, o king, and who from
time to time is seen of men ere great
things shall hefall"
II have heard speak of this queen. :"
said Chaka. Wherefore came she nov,
what was the song she sang and why
did she touch me with spear"
''She came. U 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 not know, . king Perchance
it was to crown thee chief of vet
greater realm.
Yea. perchance to crown me chief of
a realm of death"
That thou art already, Black One,
answered, glancing at the silent null
titude before us aud the cold shane of
Baleka.
Again Chaka sn.,tiered Come, let
as be going, Mopo," he said. Now l
have learned what it is to be afraid"
early or late, Fear is guest that all
faoCt A Gl,,1 =
| answered, and we turned and went
homeward in silence.
Now after this night Chaka gave it
out that his kri.al OF Gibaniaxegu was
bewitcled, 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 far 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 the white
man gives out justice. That is theplace
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 ITO the
King of Heaven for forgiveness There
on that spot have seen many 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 in 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 lmpls 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 If
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 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 QUO 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, were 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 a snake wound myself into
their secrets, and we talked together
darkly and in hints But of that pres
emily, my father, for must tell of the
coming of Masilo; he who would have
wed Zinita and whom Umslopogaas the
Slaughterer had driven out from the
kraals of the People of the AK.
1t was on the day after the impi had
left that Masilo came to the kraal Du.
guza, craving leave to speak to the king.
Chaka sat before his hut and with him
were Din%aan and Umhlangana, his
roya! brothers, was there also. and