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Updated: June 7, 2025
"You want to turn me out into the wilderness to be murdered by the Makalanga or the Matabele." "Very well," said Robert. "Untie him, boys, and bring him along. I will show him whether I lie." "Where are they taking me to?" asked Meyer. "Not into the cave? I won't go into the cave; it is haunted.
Turning to discover its cause, she perceived three great man clad in full war panoply, shields on their left arms, spears in their right hands, black ostrich plumes rising from the polished rings woven in their hair, black moochas about their middles, and black oxtails tied beneath their knees, who marched through the throng of Makalanga as though they saw them not. "The Matabele!
For she had come here with a purpose, to see whether it would not be possible to escape down the river in a canoe, or in native boats such as the Makalanga owned and used for fishing, or to cross from bank to bank.
Bear this message to your king from the White Witch of Bambatse, for I am she and no other. That he leave these Makalanga, my servants, to dwell unharmed in their ancient home, and that he lift no spear against the White Men, lest that evil which the Molimo foretold to you, should fall upon him." "Ah!" said Maduna, "now I understand how you flew from the mountain top into this man's waggon.
Therefore, as they marched past in their companies, singing a song of abuse and defiance of the Makalanga who peered at them from the top of the wall, they lifted their great spears in salutation to Benita standing upon the waggon-box. Indeed, they were a wondrous and imposing spectacle, such a one as few white women have ever seen.
Incidentally she mentioned that they were going to have an outing, to climb down the ladder and visit the Makalanga camp between the first and second walls and mix with the great world for a few hours; also to carry their washing to be done there, and bring up some clean clothes and certain books which she had left below. Jacob came out of his thoughts and calculations, and listened gloomily.
As it chanced, on that afternoon Meyer had gone down the hill in order to try to persuade the Makalanga to give them ten or twenty men to help them in their excavations.
"Maiden of high birth, I promised you your life and your goods, should you ever fall into my power." "Does a leader of the Amandabele, one of the royal blood, lie like a Mashona or a Makalanga slave? Does he do worse tell half the truth only, like a cheat who buys and keeps back half the price?" she asked contemptuously.
Know also that then the impi which waits not far away will destroy you every one, man and woman, youth and maiden, little ones who hold the hand and infants at the breast; none shall be left none at all, to say, 'Here once lived the cowardly Makalanga of Bambatse. Nay, be not foolish, but talk softly with us, so that perhaps we may spare your lives."
Behind them was the terror of the cave, beneath them were the mists of the valley, but above them the light shone and rolled and sparkled, and above them stretched the eternal sky! They descended the pillar, and near the foot of it saw an old man sitting. It was Mambo, the Molimo of the Makalanga: even when they were still far away from him they knew his snow-white head and thin, ascetic face.
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