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This was soon done, and the rhinoceros meat put on to cook. Mangaleesu and his wife, not being very particular as to its being well done, were soon able to commence supper. Denis preferred waiting a little longer, when he took some in to Percy, who was by this time well able to eat it.
Percy looking up cried out, "Yes, so there are, and they appear to me like Mangaleesu and Kalinda." The two natives continued to wave still more vehemently, occasionally looking behind them, as if they expected to see some one coming from that direction. They then both stepped into the water, about apparently to swim across. Rupert and Denis on this made signs to them to wait.
Raff was, in the meantime, smelling round and round the rhinoceros, and would evidently have liked to get at the meat, but the tough hide resisted his efforts. With deep thankfulness Denis observed Mangaleesu returning, this time accompanied by another person, whom he recognised, when they got nearer, as Kalinda.
He persuaded him therefore to remain quiet, at all events for another day. "I wish that we had something better than this rhinoceros meat," said Denis to Mangaleesu. "You shall have it," was the answer; "but I must be cautious in going out, lest I fall in with any of my enemies. If I am killed, I will trust you to look after my wife.
It would be your duty to forgive your enemies. If He thinks fit to punish them, He will do so." "But you English punish evil-doers, don't you?" asked Mangaleesu. "Certainly, the government do; but that is to prevent others committing the same acts, and to teach by the most forcible means possible that those acts are wrong."
She seemed much concerned at seeing the condition in which poor Percy lay, and placing herself by his side, she fanned his face, while Denis poured the water down his throat. She continued tending him while he went to help Mangaleesu cut into the rhinoceros. A supply of meat was soon obtained, and Denis proposed to light a fire and cook it. To this, however, Mangaleesu objected.
Mangaleesu, however, made light of his hurts, although they were such as any white man would have considered very serious. He told his white friend that his wife was uninjured, notwithstanding the many assegais thrust at her. "Have any more of your people escaped from your enemies?" asked the trader. "No; few even fought for their lives," answered the Zulu chief.
He said, however, that he should be satisfied if Mangaleesu could produce any one of the tribe who was present at the attack on our party, when the nurse was murdered and the child carried off.
Captain Broderick had the satisfaction of feeling that he had not provoked the attack by any unjust act on his part. It might possibly have been avoided, had he ungratefully refused to afford protection to Mangaleesu and his wife, who had been of essential service to Percy and Denis, but not for a moment did he regret having performed the duty he had taken on himself.
Umgolo, who ranked as a chief amongst his followers, and shared his master's board, ate considerably more than the two white men together. Mangaleesu and Kalinda, who had been invited, at first hung back, but overcoming their bashfulness at length came and joined the party, and did ample justice to the food offered them.
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