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Updated: May 14, 2025
He told how many moons ago the white man, Ibubesi, had come to the Great Place speaking of a beautiful white maiden who was known by the name of the Inkosazana-y-Zoola, a maiden who ruled the lightning, and was not as other maidens are, and how he had been sent to see her, and found that as was the Spirit of the Inkosazana which he knew, so was this maiden.
She tried to speak, to welcome him, but could not, no words would come. He also seemed to be smitten with dumbness, and thus the two of them remained a while. At last he took off his hat almost mechanically, as though from instinct, and said vaguely, "You are the Inkosazana-y-Zoola, are you not?" "I am so called," she answered softly, and with effort.
"It has been reported to me that you wished to see me, O Mouths of the King. Behold I am pleased to appear before you. What would you of Inkosazana-y-Zoola, O Mouths of the King?" Then their spokesman, an old man of high rank, with a withered hand, stepped forward from the line of his companions, stared at her for a while, and saluted again.
"Inkosazana-y-Zoola!" exclaimed one of them, rising, whereon they all sprang to their feet and perceiving this beautiful and mysterious figure, by a common impulse lifted their right arms and gave to her what no woman had ever received before the royal salute. "Bayete!" they cried, "Bayete!" then stood silent. "I hear you," said Rachel, who spoke their tongue as well as she did her own.
Bid them say to Darrien, that the Inkosazana-y-Zoola, she who stood with him once on the rock in the river while the lightnings fell and the lions roared about them, sends him greetings and awaits him." Now Dingaan turned to an induna and said, "Go, do the bidding of the Inkosazana.
"What message came to you when you knelt down before your dead father?" asked Rachel for the second time, since on this point she was intensely curious. Again that inscrutable look gathered on the girl's face, and she answered. "Did I not tell you it was for my ear alone, O Inkosazana-y-Zoola? I dare not say it, be satisfied. But this I may say.
Afterwards she discovered that it was only another name for the Inkosazana-y-Zoola, that mysterious white ghost believed by this people to control their destinies, with whom it had pleased them to identify her.
"Of course. Otherwise why should I have left my farms down in the Cape to risk my neck among these savages?" "And then," went on Rachel, "you or somebody else sent in the spy, Quabi, who returned to the Boer camp with his story about the Inkosazana-y-Zoola. You remember you brought him in limping to that old fellow with a grey beard and a large pipe, and the others who laughed at the tale.
"Be silent, you accursed wizard, or you shall howl louder than your ghost-dog." "I meant no harm," answered the man humbly, but with a curious gleam in his eye. "What are your commands, Chief?" "That we watch here. I think that the daughter of the Shouter, she who is called Inkosazana-y-Zoola, is coming, and she may need help.
I do not know how it came." We believe that the Heavens above gave thee their own name which is the name of the Spirit of our people. That Spirit I have seen in a dream, and she was like to thee, O Inkosazana-y-Zoola." "It may be so, Mouth of the King, still I am woman, not spirit."
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