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Updated: June 26, 2025
"Don't do that, Macumazahn I mean throw the ivory into the fire since I have no wish to burn before my time, and if you do, you who have worn it might burn with me. At least certainly you would die with the magic thing and go to acquire knowledge more quickly than you desire. No, no, and do not try to take it off your neck, or rather try if you will."
But I, who was anxious to learn how far Zikali would carry his tricks, contemptuously told him to be silent. Presently the king called me to him and said "Macumazahn, you white men are reported to know all things. Tell me now, is it possible for the dead to appear?" "I am not sure," I answered doubtfully; "some say that it is and some say that it is not possible." "Well," said the king.
"To my intense relief, with a low growl she straightened herself, turned, and bounded further up the kloof. "'Come on, Macumazahn, 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.
Moreover, if they saw a white woman who had sheltered with me, might they not guess something? To dress a doll for the part of the Inkosazana-y-Zulu is the greatest crime in the world, Macumazahn, and what would happen to the Opener of Roads and all his House if it were even breathed that he had dressed that doll and thus brought about the war which ruined them?
Off we all scrambled towards him as fast as our wearied limbs would carry us, hoping that he had found water. "What is it, Umbopa, son of a fool?" I shouted in Zulu. "It is food and water, Macumazahn," and again he waved the green thing. Then I saw what he had found. It was a melon. We had hit upon a patch of wild melons, thousands of them, and dead ripe. "Melons!"
Only the secret of the door has been kept, and every king has opened it, though he has not entered. There is a saying, that those who enter there will die within a moon, even as the white man died in the cave upon the mountain, where ye found him, Macumazahn, and therefore the kings do not enter. Ha! ha! mine are true words." Our eyes met as she said it, and I turned sick and cold.
Say to Macumazahn that I, Nombe, remember in the morning what I said in the night and that what seems to be quite lost is ofttimes found again. Wish him good fortune and tell him I am sorry that I had not time to cause his spare garments to be cleansed with water, but that I have been careful to find his little box with the white man's medicines."
You have worked well for me, Macumazahn, and you have had your fee, the fee of the vision of the dead which you desired above all mortal things." "Aye," I answered indignantly, "a fee of bitter fruits whereof the juice burns and twists the mouth and the stones still stick fast within the gizzard. I tell you, Zikali, that she stuffed my heart with lies."
It is good that you wear the Great Medicine of Zikali upon your breast, Macumazahn, for perhaps it will shield you from harm at those hands that are shaped of ivory." "Zikali is another of the tribe," I answered, laughing, "although less beautiful to see.
'Ah, Macumazahn! he said to me as I limped up, feeling very sick, 'I told thee that it would be a good fight, and it has. Never have I seen a better, or one more bravely fought. Had it not been for the garment I should have been there, and he nodded towards the great pile of dead men beneath him. 'I give it thee; thou art a brave man, said Sir Henry, briefly.
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