Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 21, 2025
It reminded him that he, the white Inkoos, had been refused by this dusky beauty, and that if he found a way to save him, within some few hours she would be the wife of the savage gentleman at her side, the man who had named him Black Heart and who despised him, the man whom he had meant to murder and who immediately repaid his treachery by rescuing him from the jaws of the leopard at the risk of his own life.
I am the wife of Nahoon I belong to Nahoon; therefore, I cannot look on any other man while Nahoon lives. It is not our custom, Inkoos, for we are not as the white women, but ignorant and simple, and when we vow ourselves to a man, we abide by that vow till death." "Indeed," said Hadden; "and so now you go to tell Nahoon that I have offered to make you my wife."
"No, Inkoos," he answered; "they are of the Children of George, as you are, and therefore the king has spared them, although he is going to send them out of the country." This was good news, so far as it went, and I asked again if Thomas Halstead had also been spared, since he, too, was an Englishman. "No," said Kambula.
"You talk darkly, Inkoos." "Then I must make my meaning clear, Nanea. I love you." She opened her brown eyes wide. "You, a white lord, love me, a Zulu girl? How can that be?" "I do not know, Nanea, but it is so, and were you not blind you would have seen it. I love you, and I wish to take you to wife." "Nay, Inkoos, it is impossible. I am already betrothed."
"Inkoos," she said in a whisper when the door was closed again, "I have pleaded with Nahoon, and he has consented to fly; moreover, my father will come also." "Is it so, Nahoon?" asked Hadden. "It is so," answered the Zulu, looking down shamefacedly; "to save this girl from the king, and because the love of her eats out my heart, I have bartered away my honour.
"Yes, Inkoos, I was one of his wives." "Was? Then where is Ibubesi now?" "Dead, Inkoos. The fire has burned him up with his kraal Mafooti." "With the kraal Mafooti! Where, then, is the Inkosazana? Answer, woman, and be swift," he cried in a hollow voice. "Alas!
He listened attentively, asking a question now and again, and when he had mastered my meaning, said with a most dignified calmness: "Now I understand, White Man, and am glad to learn that you are not cruel, as I thought. My children," he added, turning to the others, "let us trouble this Inkoos no more. He only does what he must do to save the lives of his brethren by his skill, if he can.
On his chest was a great inkoos with one eye covered, and on his back a hut with trees growing straight up into the air from it. We were sore afraid, for the white baas told us he was bewitched, and that if harm came to either he would uncover the closed eye of the great inkoos upon his chest, which was the Evil Eye, and command him to blast the Barotse and their land for ever.
"To my intense relief, with a low growl she straightened herself, turned, and bounded off farther up the kloof. "'Come on, inkoos, said Tom, 'let's get back to the waggon. "'All right, Tom, I answered. 'I will when I have killed those three other lions, for by this time I was bent on shooting them as I never remember being bent on anything before or since.
Nahoon stood up and shook himself, looking gigantic in the shadows of the morning. It irritated him that this savage should give him no title of any sort. "Your pardon," said the Zulu reading his thoughts, "but I cannot call you Inkoos because you are not my chief, or any man's; still if the title 'white man' offends you, we will give you a name." "As you wish," answered Hadden briefly.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking