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Updated: May 27, 2025
Here I found a stool placed ready on which I sat down, Goza, who of course was not of the Council, squatting at my side in the grass. Now I found that I was so situated that I could not well be seen from the fire, or even from the rock above it, while I, by moving my head a little, could see both quite clearly.
Goza, lead Macumazahn back to his hut and set a guard about it. At the dawn a company of soldiers will be waiting with orders to take him to the border. You will go with him and answer for his safety with your life. Let him be well treated on the road as my messenger." Then Cetewayo rose and stood while all present gave him the royal salute, after which he walked away down the kloof.
This told me that here also Goza had spoken the truth the king was performing magical ceremonies, which meant that it would be impossible to approach him. In every direction I met with failure. The Fates were against me; it lay over me like a spell. Indeed I grew superstitious and began to think that Zikali had bewitched me, as he was said to have the power to do.
Now as to the men who were to go with us. After much consultation we decided that their number should be limited to five, namely, a driver, a leader, and three servants. The driver and leader I found without much difficulty, two Zulus, named respectively Goza and Tom; but to get the servants proved a more difficult matter.
Is it not a proverb in the land from the time of the slaying of Bangu when you gave the cattle you had earned to Saduko's wanderers?" I listened and an idea occurred to me, as perhaps it had to Goza. "I hear you, Goza," I said, "and I will start for Ulundi on my feet to save you the trouble of carrying me.
Only the Watcher-by-Night would not run; no, although he is so small he knocked him to the earth with his fist, and there he lies. That is all, O King." "Rise, dog," said Cetewayo, and the man rose trembling with fear, and, being bidden, gave his name, which I forget. "Listen, dog," went on the king in the same cold voice. "What Goza says is true, for I saw and heard it all with my eyes and ears.
Goza only answered what he said before, that if I wished to die at once I had better take ten steps towards the Valley of Bones, whence, he added parenthetically, the Opener of Roads had already departed on his homeward journey. This might or might not be true; at any rate I could find no possible way of coming face to face with him, or even of getting a message to his ear.
He paused, then turning to Goza, asked, "Did the Opener of Roads tell you where he wished to dwell when he comes to visit me here at Ulundi?"
He lay quiet enough, but how the matter would have ended I do not know, for passion was running high, had not Goza at this moment risen with a bleeding nose and called out "O Fools, would you kill the king's guest to whom the king himself has given safe-conduct. Surely you are pots full of beer, not men." "Why not?" answered one. "This is the Place of Soldiers. The king's house is yonder.
"Perhaps, Captain; yet the mountain can feel the winds," and I might have added, smell them, for the Kloof was close and these Kaffirs had not recently bathed. "I am named Goza and come on an errand from the king, O Macumazahn." "Indeed, Goza, and is your errand to cut my throat?" "Not at present, Macumazahn, that is, unless you refuse to do what the king wishes."
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