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Updated: May 7, 2025
Among all your subjects none was more loyal and faithful than Logwane. Why did you suffer him to be slain?" The king glowered at me for a moment, his eyes smouldering with suppressed anger. Then he answered coldly: "White man, I believed Logwane to be all that you say.
"Mapela," said Lomalindela, when the induna had drawn near and saluted, "I am perplexed, and know not what to believe. I can believe thy words, because I have proved thee, and know thee to be faithful and true. Thou didst know Logwane intimately; tell me, therefore, was he loyal to me, or was he not?" "There was no man in all Mashonaland more faithful to thee than Logwane," answered Mapela.
No, of course, the idea was madness, the act an impossibility; yet when a few minutes later I saw the tall induna, Logwane Mapela's friend led forth and mercilessly done to death, I could not refrain from leaning toward the king and murmuring: "O King, your witch doctors are not infallible; they made a dreadful mistake when they smelled out that man!
Mapela, "the Wise One", was one of the strongest upholders of the above theory, and in support of the soundness of it he whispered to me: "You see that tall induna yonder, talking with two others? Yes, the man with the necklace of lions' teeth. He is Logwane, reputed to be the most wealthy induna.
As to how I know it, my snake told me, and he never lies. And if thou dost still doubt me, question the indunas. Doubtless there are some among them whom thou canst trust, who will tell thee whether Logwane was true, or whether he was false to thee." The king frowningly considered my proposition for a little, and finally, looking up, called Mapela to approach.
But I was mistaken, for my witch doctors cannot err; no man can hide his guilt from them: and had Logwane not harboured treachery in his heart they would not have smelled him out. Therefore I suffered him to be slain. No man may think evil of me and continue to live."
He lied to thee and cheated thee by pretending that he could smell out thine enemies, whereas he possessed no such power; and he smelled out and caused to be destroyed Logwane, one of the most loyal and faithful of your indunas, because, after heavily bribing Machenga for several years, in order to obtain immunity, Logwane refused to submit to further robbery.
And what he has done to Logwane he has, doubtless, done to many others of Your Majesty's loyal and faithful subjects." "How knowest thou all this, Chia'gnosi," demanded the king; "and how am I to know that thy words are true?" "Have I not proved it to thee by destroying Machenga?" retorted I. "Thinkest thou that if Machenga had been what he claimed to be I could have slain him?
I know none of them save Logwane; but send thou and ascertain the names of the other indunas who have died to-day by the hands of the Slayers, and thou shalt find that, like Logwane, they were rich men, the half of whose riches would pass to Machenga; or they were men who had incurred Machenga's hatred.
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