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My heart stood still when I saw that litter coming; it was no more heart; it was cold iron, because I thought the dead or injured man was " And she paused. "Saduko?" I suggested. "Not at all, Inkoosi my father." "Well, it wasn't either of them," I said, "so you must have felt happy." "Happy!
"Inkoosi," answered a deep voice, "I am Saduko." "You are welcome," I answered, handing him a little gourd of snuff in token of hospitality. Then I waited while he poured some of the snuff into the palm of his hand and took it in the usual fashion. "Inkoosi," he said, when he had scraped away the tears produced by the snuff, "I have come to ask you a favour.
Oh, it is the fashion to abuse natives, but from whom do we meet with more fidelity and love than from these poor wild Kafirs that so many of us talk of as black dirt which chances to be fashioned to the shape of man? "As for myself, Inkoosi," added Saduko, "I only did my duty. How could I have held up my head again if the bull had killed you while I walked away alive?
May he whom you named the Otter serve you and the Inkoosi your brother once more in the House of the Great-Great, if one so ugly and misshapen can enter there. As for the Basuto dog whom I slew and who would have stolen your gun, I see now that I killed him in a fortunate hour, that he might be the slave beneath your feet in the House of the Great-Great.
After all, dangers are everywhere; those who turn back because of dangers will never succeed in any life that we can imagine. "Mavovo," I said presently, pointing to Stephen with my pipe, "the inkoosi Wazela does not wish to try to escape. He wishes to go on to the country of the Pongo people if we can get there. And, Mavovo, remember that he has paid for everything; we are his hired servants.
Inkoosi, when the guest of our house had been wounded, perhaps to death the guest of whom I have heard so much, although by misfortune I was absent when he arrived." "A difference of opinion with your eldest mother?" I suggested. "Yes, Inkoosi; my own is dead, and I am not too well treated here. She called me a witch." "Did she?" I answered.
Meanwhile I am going on a shooting trip to-morrow with Umbezi the Fat, and I like you, O Chooser of the Road of Spears and Blood. Will you be my companion and earn the gun with two mouths in payment?" "Inkoosi," he said, lifting his hand in salute with a flash of his dark eyes, "you are generous, you honour me. What is there that I should love better?
"Inkoosi," he said, "the white chief Wazela bade me say that he and the cook, Sam, have gone to sleep on board the ship to look after the goods. Sam came up just now and fetched him away; he says he will show you why to-morrow." I nodded and passed on, wondering to myself why Stephen had suddenly determined to stay the night on the Maria.
"If you do anything of the sort, Saduko, you will go up against Bangu alone, for I trek east at once, who will not be mixed up with murder." "Then let it be, Inkoosi; unless he attacks me, as my Snake send that he may, the Hog can wait. After all, he will only be growing a little fatter. Now, if it pleases you order the wagons to trek.
"Nay, have no fear, Inkoosi," replied the messenger with a smile; "it is refused, because the King said that if once she saw you she would bewitch you and bring trouble on you, as she does on all men. It is for this reason that she is guarded by women only, no man being allowed to go near to her, for on women her witcheries will not bite.
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