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As they did so, with an awful roar of "Bulala Amaboona" "Slay the Boers," the entire line, numbering nearly a thousand men, bounded forward like a buck startled from its form, and rushed down upon the little laager.
Instantly the warriors, who had now danced quite close and were waiting for these words, rushed upon the Boers. I heard Thomas Halstead call out in English: "We are done for," and then add in Zulu, "Let me speak to the king!" Dingaan heard also, and waved his hand to show that he refused to listen, and as he did so shouted thrice: "Bulala abatagati!" that is, Slay the wizards!
So, to mention some, taken from a valuable list which gives chiefly the names of foreign gods, together with the places where they were worshipped, we learn of such gods as Lagamal, Magarida, Lasimu, A-ishtu, Bulala, Katnu, Kannu, Kishshat, Kanishurra, Khiraitum.
"Well, little Son of George," puffed Dingaan, "you have lost your bet, for you did but kill two vultures out of five with your magic, which was good as far as it went, but not good enough. Now you must pay, as I would have paid had you won." Then he stretched out his hand, and issued the dreadful order of "Bulala amalongu!"
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