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Updated: June 24, 2025
"Let them fight," he said. "Give them assegais and no shields; the child shall be to him who conquers." "Yes! yes!" cried the soldiers. "Let them fight. Don't be afraid, Bombyane; if he is a spirit, he's a very small one."
"You said him nay; you said, 'Let him fight with our bravest man, let him fight with Bombyane the giant for the child. And he deigned to slay Bombyane as you have seen, and now you say, 'Slay him; he is no spirit. Now I will show you if he is a spirit, for I will slay him before your eyes, and call him to life again. But you have brought this upon yourselves.
"I never was frightened of man or beast, and I am not going to run away from a White Ghost," answered the redoubtable Bombyane, as he examined the blade of his great bangwan or stabbing assegai. Then they made a ring round us, gave me a similar assegai, and set us some ten paces apart. I kept my face as calm as I could, and tried to show no signs of fear, though in my heart I was terribly afraid.
How did a spirit slay Bombyane with an assegai? Spear him, rain-maker, and we shall see." "Stand back," cried Indaba-zimbi again, "and I will show you if he can be killed. I will kill him myself, and call him back to life again before your eyes." "Macumazahn, trust me," he whispered in my ear in the Sisutu tongue, which the Zulus did not understand.
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