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Updated: May 27, 2025
"And the King has grown fat like the ox on summer grass. As for what I do here, did not the King send for me by Goza, and was I not brought like a baby in a blanket."
I felt as though I had committed a crime in leaving Zululand without doing this and hearing from his own lips well, whatever he chose to tell me. I forget if I said that while we were waiting at the gate where those silly women talked so much nonsense about Mameena and Kaatje, that I made another effort through Goza to get into touch with the wizard, but quite without avail.
He was about to prepare for departure when news came that the Turkish fleet had been seen at Goza. Instantly all was panic. Valiant gentlemen forgot their valour, forgot their coolness, forgot how strong a force by sea or land they mustered: one thought alone was uppermost the Turks were upon them!
Still I determined not to obey it, who would not be made a public laughing-stock for a second time in my life. Also I confess this jesting with the dead seemed to me somewhat unholy, and not on any account would I take a part in it. All the company turned and stared at me, even Goza lifted his head and stared, but I sat still and contemplated the beauties of the night.
Instead of boldly throwing his whole force upon the small garrison and overwhelming them by sheer weight, he tried a reconnaissance, and fell into an ambuscade; upon which he incontinently abandoned all thought of a siege, and contented himself with laying waste the interior of Malta, and taking the adjacent island of Goza.
"What is this plan, Inyanga? Let us hear that we may judge." "The plan of calling one from the dead and hearkening to the voice of the dead. Is it your desire that I should draw water from this fount of wisdom, O King and Councillors?" Now men began to whisper together and Goza groaned at my side. "Rather would I look down a live lion's throat than see the dead," he murmured.
Bid him announce his arrival and the hour he chooses for our meeting by messenger. Begone." Goza leapt up, gave the royal salute, and retreated backwards from the presence of the king, leaving us alone. I also rose to depart, but Cetewayo motioned to me to be seated. Also two white men were driven away from an island in the Tugela River by some of my soldiers." "Is that all, O King?" I asked.
The soldiers who ring it round have killed one already, so strict are the orders, also a boy who went towards it searching for a calf, which I think a bad omen." "Then I will send a message to him," I persisted. "Do so," mocked Goza. "Look, yonder sails a vulture. Ask it to take your message, for nothing else will.
Meanwhile all the regiments were being gathered, or, as we should say, mobilized; an army, said Goza, greater than any that Chaka had ever led. I asked him what I had to do with this business, that I, a peaceful traveller and an old friend of the Zulus, should be made prisoner and dragged off to Ulundi.
He answered that he had not walked, or so he understood, but had been carried in a litter, or rather in two litters, one for himself and one for his "spirit." This staggered me even where Zikali was concerned, and I inquired what on earth Goza meant. "Macumazahn, how can I tell you who only know what I myself am told?" he exclaimed.
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