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Not far from the door of this house a fat, middle-aged and angry-looking man was seated on a stool, naked except for a moocha of catskins about his loins and a string of large blue beads round his neck. "Bausi, the King," whispered Babemba.
The process was simple, consisting only in the shedding of his coat and trousers an old pair of Leonard's, very much cut down which left him naked, except for a moocha that he wore beneath them in accordance with native custom. "What does all this mean?" asked the headman Peter, who, like his companions, was trembling with fear.
There is a camp of them up yonder, but you remember, our orders were not to touch any of the people of George, so we need not trouble about them." "Well, brother, if you are sure, we had better be starting back, lest there should be trouble with the white people. Dingaan will be satisfied when we show him the moocha, and sleep in peace henceforth.
The crocodiles have that Noie, her witchcraft could not save her from them; it was a baboon's spoor you saw in the mud, not a woman's." "It would seem so, brother," answered the other, "as we found the moocha. Still, if so, where is Bomba who was running her down? And what made that blood-mark on the grass?"
As I sped along I communicated to an officer of the port that there was the devil of a mess upon the Maria which he would do well to investigate." By this time I was in my shirt and trousers and shouting to Mavovo and the others. Soon they arrived, for as the costume of Mavovo and his company consisted only of a moocha and a blanket, it did not take them long to dress.
One was to save himself, and the other to lie down and die by Nada. Yet he found a third, for, undoing the strips of his moocha, he made ropes of them, and with the ropes he bound Nada on his back and started for the king's kraal.
Umbopa did so, at the same time slipping off the long military great coat which he wore, and revealing himself naked except for the moocha round his centre and a necklace of lions' claws. Certainly he was a magnificent-looking man; I never saw a finer native. Standing about six foot three high he was broad in proportion, and very shapely.
Scarcely was I outside the gates of the Intunkulu when the infant began to squeak in the bundle. If it had been one minute before! "What," said a soldier, as I passed, "have you got a puppy hidden under your moocha, Mopo?" Girdle composed of skin and tails of oxen.-ED. I made no answer, but hurried on till I came to my huts. I entered; there were my two wives alone.
"He says you need meat lots of deer-meat," translated Naab. "Sick," repeated Eschtah, whose English was intelligible. He appeared to be casting about in his mind for additional words to express his knowledge of the white man's tongue, and, failing, continued in Navajo: "Tohodena moocha malocha." Hare was nonplussed at the roar of laughter from the Mormons.
So the time wore on, and at length came the day of the new moon. At the dawn of that day Umslopogaas arose and clad himself in a moocha, binding the she-wolf's skin round his middle beneath the moocha. In his hand he took a stout fighting-shield, which he had made of buffalo hide, and that same light moon-shaped axe with which he had slain the captain of Chaka.
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