Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 24, 2025
At the gate of the isigodhlo, an inclosure made of the finest woven grass, and containing the royal dwellings, he deposited his rifle on the ground, and, deliberately unbuckling the strap of his revolver holster, placed that weapon behind the other; and thus unarmed, according to strict Zulu etiquette, he prepared to enter.
Thus one day I heard a great tumult and shouting proceeding apparently from the Isigodhlo, or royal enclosure, and on inquiring what it was afterwards, was told that Cetewayo had come from the Amangwe kraal and denounced Nomantshali, the King's wife, as "umtakati", or a witch.
Then dismissing the matter from his mind, as we white people dismiss any trivial incident in a morning stroll, he talked for a few minutes to the commanding officer of the regiment that was drilling, who ran up to make some report to him, and walked back towards the isigodhlo, beckoning me to follow with Goza.
The yellow-domed huts lay six or seven deep between their dark, ringed fences, the great circular space in the middle the isigodhlo, or inclosure of royal dwellings partitioned off at the upper end why, the place might have been the chief kraal of Cetywayo or Dingane miraculously transferred to this remote and unexplored region. "Lo! Imvungayo.
This man, instead of leaving him at the gate of the isigodhlo, still kept at his side, and Laurence, manifesting no curiosity, having picked up his weapons where he had left them, accompanied his guide in silence. They passed out of Imvungayo, and after walking nearly a mile came to a large kraal, which Laurence recognized as that of Nondwana, the king's brother.
"I do not wish him to die," I answered, "I think that he and those with him were drunk. Let him go, O King." "Aye, Macumazahn, I will let him go. See now, we are in the centre of the cattle-kraal, and to the eastern gate is as far as to the isigodhlo.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking