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Updated: June 16, 2025
Somehow I did not seem to fancy that portion of it which touched the platter, for who knew what those dishes might have contained and how often they were washed. Stephen also appeared to have found salvation on this point, for he, too, patronized the mealie cobs and the pumpkin; so did Mavovo, and so did even that inveterate meat-eater, Hans.
"Mavovo," I began, "there is trouble on the ship " "O Baba," he interrupted with something resembling a grin, "it is very strange, but last night I dreamed that I told you " "Curse your dreams," I said. "Gather the men and go down no, that won't work, there would be murder done. Either it is all over now or it is all right. Get the hunters ready; I come with them.
In another five minutes everybody was up, though it required kicks to rouse most of the bearers from their slumbers. They, poor men, were accustomed to the presence of Death and did not suffer him to disturb their sleep. Still I noted that they muttered together and seemed alarmed. "If they show signs of treachery, you must kill them," I said to Mavovo, who nodded in his grave, silent fashion.
"I daresay," I broke in, "but, Mavovo, be so good as to leave me out of your magic, for I don't at all want to know what is going to happen to me. To-day is enough for me without studying next month and next year. There is a saying in our holy book which runs: 'Sufficient to the day is its evil." "Quite so, O Macumazana.
The gist of it was that Hans explained to Mavovo that the white people admired this weed he called it a weed because it was like gold, which was the god they really worshipped, although that god was known among them by many names.
I stared at him; we all stared at him. "What do you mean, Spotted Snake?" asked Mavovo. "What do you mean, child of a hundred idiots? Is this a time to jest? Is not one joker enough among us?" I asked, and looked at Stephen. "Mean, Baas? Don't you know that I have the little rifle with me, that which is called Intombi, that with which you shot the vultures at Dingaan's kraal?
There's only one thing in the world which justifies that, and it isn't a flower. Mavovo and Hans had followed us into the enclosure, and I overheard a conversation between them which amused me.
He wishes to go back to his hole in the world beneath." "Well, then," I answered in rather a shamefaced fashion, for Mavovo had an uncanny way of seeing into one's secret motives, "I should like to know, if you can tell me, which you can't, what has become of the white man with the long beard whom you black people call Dogeetah?
At this moment, however, Mavovo called attention to his bundle which he had undone, whether on purpose or by accident, I do not know, and forgetting the tobacco, Komba turned to attend to him. With a marvellous celerity Hans rolled up his blanket again. In less than a minute the lashings were fast and it was hanging on his back.
Mavovo's Snake a liar, and after he whom we buried yonder was the first of the hunters whom the feathers named to him at Durban!" and he began to chuckle in intense amusement, then added, "Well, Baas, there it is. You must either ask Mavovo, and very nicely, or we shall all be killed.
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