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Now Nada started like a frightened bird, but quickly gathered up her thoughts, and turned upon me in a lordly way. "Who are you that ask me?" she said, feigning a man's voice. "One who can use a stick upon thieves and night-prowlers, boy. Come, show your business or be moving. You are not of this people; surely that moocha is of a Swazi make, and here we do not love Swazis."
"Show me the diamond." Footsack fumbled about his person, his hair, his waistcoat pockets and even his moocha, and ultimately from somewhere produced a stone which he handed to me. I looked at it, and from the purity of colour and size, judged it to be a diamond worth #200, or possibly more. After careful examination I put it into my pocket, saying,
"Where did he get you, Umbezi?" I asked, for I could not see his wounds because of the smoke. "Behind, Macumazahn, behind!" he groaned, "for I had turned to fly, but, alas! too late." "On the contrary," I replied, "for one so heavy you flew very well; like a bird, Umbezi, like a bird." "Look and see what the evil beast has done to me, Macumazahn. It will be easy, for my moocha has gone."
For instance, they have doors and verandahs to their huts, work skins perfectly, and wear a waistcloth and not a moocha. At this time the Butiana were more or less subject to the Matuku, having been surprised by them some twenty years before and mercilessly slaughtered down. The tribe was now recovering itself, however, and as you may imagine, it did not love the Matuku.
Next, Sihamba slipped off her fur cloak, leaving herself naked except for the moocha round her middle, and, clasping her hands behind her back with the assegai between them, she drew the riem taut, and leaned against the wall of the hut after the fashion of one who is about to be pulled from the ground and strangled. "Now, mistress, listen to me," she said earnestly.
She wore no garment now except her moocha, for she had but one mantle and was afraid lest the water should splash it. He watched her advancing along the path, her hands resting on her hips, her splendid naked figure outlined against the westering sun, and wondered what excuse he could make to talk with her.
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