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Updated: June 26, 2025
"Yes, Macumazahn, and Faku was telling him the tale of how I killed him and of the fight that I and my blood-brother and the wolves made, there on the knees of the old witch who sits aloft on the Ghost Mountain waiting for the world to die, for I could understand their talk, though mine went by them like the wind.
"Yea, my lords," answered the old chief with a smile, which was reflected on the faces of his companions; "if ye do this thing, we will be satisfied indeed." "It shall be done; we three, Incubu, Bougwan, and Macumazahn, have said it, and it shall be done. Dost thou hear, Infadoos?"
Now they will be quieter, and while you stay here you may walk where you will in safety, Macumazahn," he added thoughtfully.
With her left hand she patted the dog's head feebly and with her right drew out the assegai from her body, letting it fall upon the ground. Recognizing me she smiled in her usual mysterious fashion and said "All is well, Macumazahn, all is very well. I have deserved to die and I do not die in vain." "Don't talk, let me see your wound," I exclaimed.
Perhaps you may prefer to go to Ulundi dead, which would ah! how strong is this snuff, it makes me weep like a woman save you the trouble of walking. But if you prefer that we should carry you, be so good, Macumazahn, first to write the words which will cause the grey blankets to be delivered to us, for we know well that even your bones would desire to keep your promise.
"Well, there it is, Macumazahn, you will have to stay here unless you wish to be killed. He who walks into a storm must put up with the hailstones." So it came about that once again Fate dragged me into the Zulu maelstrom. On the morrow I was summoned to the trial, half as a witness and half as one of the offenders.
Sleep well, Macumazahn, and do not dream too much of what you heard and saw in Zikali's house." Then before I could speak she turned and left me. I did not sleep well; I slept very badly.
I asked, still staring at the thing which I perceived to be a most wonderfully fashioned likeness of the old dwarf himself as he appeared before me crouched upon the ground. There were the deepset eyes, the great head, the toad-like shape, the long hair, all. "It is a clever carving, is it not, Macumazahn? I am skilled in that art, you know, and therefore can judge of carving."
As I approached, I saw women and children running to the kraal to hide, and when I reached the gateway for some time no one would come out to meet me. At length a small boy appeared who informed me that the kraal was 'empty as a gourd. "'Quite so, I answered; 'still, go and tell the headman that Macumazahn wishes to speak with him.
"My plan is, Macumazahn," he said, rising from his seat, "to go hence and gather those who are friendly to me because I am my father's son and still the chief of the Amangwane, or those who are left of them, although I have no kraal and no hoof of kine.
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