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Updated: June 22, 2025
My destination was Nodwengu, Panda's Great Place, where I hoped to do some trading, but, as I was in no particular hurry, my plan was to go round by Masapo's, and see for myself how it fared between him and Mameena. Indeed, I reached the borders of the Amasomi territory, whereof Masapo was chief, by evening, and camped there.
"What shall I do what shall I do?" went on Umbezi, brushing the perspiration off his brow with one hand, while he wrung the other in his agitation. "There stands a friend of mine" he pointed to the infuriated Masapo "who wishes me to kill another friend of mine," and he jerked his thumb towards the kraal gate.
Perhaps she has been making love to you, and you have turned her away, as, being what you are, and my friend, of course you would do." "Perhaps all this has happened," he continued, "or perhaps it is she who has sent for Masapo the Hog. I do not ask, because if you know you will not tell me. Moreover, it matters nothing.
Now, my Idhlozi, my Spirit, do you speak?" and, holding his head sideways, he turned his left ear up towards the sky, then said presently, in a curious, matter-of-fact voice: "Ah! I thank you, Spirit. Well, King, your grandchild was killed by the House of Masapo, your enemy, chief of the Amasomi."
After the death of that evil-doer, Masapo, he grew very urgent, and the King, also the Inkosazana Nandie, pressed it on me, and so I yielded. Also, to be honest, Saduko was a good match, or seemed to be so." By now we were walking side by side, for the train of wagons had gone ahead to the old outspan. So I stopped and looked her in the face. "'Seemed to be," I repeated.
"Did I not tell you, Macumazahn, that when two bucks met they would fight?" whispered Mameena suavely into my ear. "Yes, Mameena, you did or rather I told you. But you did not tell me what the doe would do." "The doe, Macumazahn, will crouch in her form and see what happens as is the fashion of does," and again she laughed softly. "Why not do your own hunting, Masapo?" asked Saduko.
This was the plot that I made that my son and Princess Nandie's should be poisoned, and that Masapo should seem to poison him, so that he might be killed as a wizard and I marry Mameena."
Looking up, I saw Masapo running towards me with a speed that I should have thought impossible in so fat a man, while after him raced the fierce-faced executioners, and behind came the mob. "Kill the evil-doer!" they shouted. Masapo reached me. He flung himself on his knees before me, gasping: "Save me, Macumazahn! I am innocent. Mameena, the witch! Mameena "
"O King," I said, "as one who has known this man in the past, I plead with you. How that powder came into his kaross I know not, but perchance it is not poison, only harmless dust." "Yes, it is but wood dust which I use for the cleaning of my nails," cried Masapo, for he was so terrified I think he knew not what he said. "So you own to knowledge of the medicine?" exclaimed Panda.
"That she hates the very sight of her husband, Masapo, and says that she would rather be married to a baboon yes, to a baboon than to him, which gives him offence, after he has paid so many cattle for her. But what of this, Macumazahn? There is always a grain missing upon the finest head of corn.
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