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"Then, white lord," answered Komba, "you will do well to stop in this place in the midst of your family, since, if you try to bring it with you to Pongo-land, you will be killed as you set foot upon the shore." Before I could find an answer Brother John spoke, saying: "It is natural that the great hunter, Macumazana, should not wish to be parted from what which to him is as a stick to a lame man.
Still, I shall be grateful to you if you will use your power to discover, if you can, whether Dogeetah is coming here, and if so, when. Now, do as it may please you; I have spoken." "And I have heard, Macumazana, my father. To-night I will call upon my Snake. Whether it will answer or what it will answer, I cannot say."
For a while I stared to make sure that I was not the victim of an illusion or a mirage. Then when I had satisfied myself that these were indeed men and camels I descended from the ant-heap. "You will admit, Macumazana," said Harût politely, "that if we had meant you any ill, with such a force it would have been easy for us to take a sleeping camp at night.
"Then why did they ask me to visit them, Babemba?" "I know not, Macumazana, but perhaps because they wished to make an offering of you to the god Jana, whom no spear can harm; no, nor even your bullets that pierce a tree." "I am willing to make trial of that matter," I answered confidently, "and any way we must go to see these things for ourselves."
Brother John ordered him to be wrapped up in a blanket and laid by the fire, and this was done. Presently Mavovo approached and squatted down in front of us. "Macumazana, my father," he said quietly, "what words have you for me?" "Words of thanks, Mavovo. If you had not been so quick, Imbozwi would have finished me.
"We never mentioned him because we do not talk about everything at once, Babemba. As to when Dogeetah will meet us I am not sure; I am only sure that he is coming." "Yes, lord Macumazana, but when, when? That is what the king will want to know and that is what you must tell him.
Macumazana," he added, smiling a little, "why do you talk folly, who know well that one lives in yonder cave whom none may look upon and love, as Bena learned not long ago? You are thinking that perhaps you might kill this Dweller in the cave with your weapons.
Go in, Macumazana, ere you take harm in this horrible cold, and take with you this as a marriage gift from the Child of Heaven whom she met to-night, to the beautiful lady stamped with the sign of the young moon who is about to marry the great lord she loves." Then he thrust a little linen-wrapped parcel into my hand and with his companion vanished into the darkness.
"Siyakubona, Black Man," I answered, just touching his fingers, while Mameena, who had come up again with her beer, and was facing me, made a little grimace and tittered. Now I turned on my heel to go, whereon Masapo said in a coarse, growling voice: "O Macumazana, before you leave us I wish to speak with you on a certain matter. Will it please you to sit aside with me for a while?"
Now these are my orders to you, Maputa, and to you, O captains that you take no part in the fight unless you should see that the Elephant, my son Umbelazi, is fallen into a pit, and that then you shall drag him out if you can and save him alive. Now repeat my words to me." So they repeated the words, speaking with one voice. "Your answer, O Macumazana," he said when they had spoken.
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