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As I spoke the reed fence burst asunder, and through it plunged the princes Umhlangana and Dingaan, as bulls plunge through a brake. Then I pointed to Chaka with my withered hand, saying, "Behold your king!" Now, from beneath the shelter of his kaross, each Prince drew out a short stabbing spear, and plunged it into the body of Chaka the king.
I cut the strings that tied them to the world. They fell off. Ha! ha! They fell off! Perhaps they are falling still, perhaps they creep about their desolate kraals in the skins of snakes. I wish I knew the snakes that I might crush them with my heel. Yonder, beneath us, at the burying place of kings, there is a hole. In that hole lies the bones of Chaka, the king who died for Baleka.
At all events, Chaka is dead; he was murdered about two years back by his own relations." "Who was Chaka?" inquired Alexander. "That I have yet to tell you; at present we have only got as far as the Caffres, who are immediately on our frontiers." The wind continued fair, and the vessel rapidly approached the Cape.
"Dust" was the name of one of the great regiments that went out against Sotyangana, 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.
Now, as it chanced, in the hut were Unandi, the mother of Chaka, and Baleka, my sister, the wife of Chaka, for, not knowing that I had taken away Umslopogaas, the son of Baleka, according to their custom, these two foolish women had come to kiss and fondle the lad. But when they entered the hut they found it full of my other wives and children.
So, my sister, as I would not take that which I have not won, I have done so, and now do thou go apart and talk with Mopo, thy brother, alone upon this matter, as once before thou didst talk when a child was born to thee, my sister!" Now Baleka took no heed of the words of Chaka which he spoke of me, for she knew his meaning well. Only she looked him in the eyes and said:
In a little while nothing was left except the larger bones, and yet each wolf had but a little. Then they went back to the cave and slept. Afterwards Umslopogaas told Galazi all his tale, and Galazi asked him if he would abide with him and be his brother, and rule with him over the wolf-kind, or seek his father Mopo at the kraal of Chaka.
"Let him be taken away, and all those who were with him." Now some of the men prayed a little for mercy, but the captain did but salute the king, calling him "Father," and craving a boon before he died. "What wouldst thou?" asked Chaka. "My father," said the man, "I would ask thee two things.
Thus she spoke, and a cloud swept over the face of the moon. When it passed she was gone, and once more I was alone with Chaka, with the night and the dead. Chaka looked up, and his face was grey with the sweat of fear. "Who was this, Mopo?" he said in a hollow voice.
And should I lift up my will against the will of the king, saving the child to look upon the sun which he had doomed to darkness? Nay, I would fly, leaving all, and seek out some far tribe where I might begin to live again. Here I could not live; here in the shadow of Chaka was nothing but death. I reached my own huts, there to find that my wife Macropha was delivered of twins.
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