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Updated: June 12, 2025
Now what would you of the Bee, White Man, the Bee that labours in this Garden of Death, and what brings you here, son of Zomba? Why are you not with the Umcityu now that they doctor themselves for the great war the last war the war of the white and the black or if you have no stomach for fighting, why are you not at the side of Nanea the tall, Nanea the fair?"
Slipping through the hole in the tree, Nanea walked quietly towards the cannibals not knowing in the least what she should do when she reached them. As she arrived in line with the fire this lack of programme came home to her mind forcibly, and she paused to reflect.
Perchance, Black Heart, we may yet meet yonder in the House of the Dead." Then uttering a low cry Nanea clasped her hands and sprang upwards and outwards from the platform. The watchers bent their heads forward to look. They saw her rush headlong down the face of the fall to strike the water fifty feet below.
His betrothed, Nanea, daughter of Umgona, was killed together with her father by order of the Black One, and Nahoon went mad with grief at the sight of it, for the fire of Heaven entered his brain, and mad he has wandered ever since." "What would you here, Nahoon-ka-Zomba?" asked the Induna. Then Nahoon spoke slowly.
"You must not call me lady, Inkoos," she answered, "I am no chieftainess, but only the daughter of a headman, Umgona." "And named Nanea," he said. "Nay, do not be surprised, I have heard of you. Well, Nanea, perhaps you will soon become a chieftainess up at the king's kraal yonder." "Alas! and alas!" she said, covering her face with her hands.
But I tell you, Nanea, and you, White Man, as I told Umgona just now, that I think no good will come of this flight, and if we are caught or betrayed, we shall be killed every one of us." "Caught we can scarcely be," broke in Nanea anxiously, "for who could betray us, except the Inkoos here "
But Umgona has a powerful neighbour, an old chief named Maputa, the warden of the Crocodile Drift, who doubtless is known to the king, and this chief also seeks Nanea in marriage and harries Umgona, threatening him with many evils if he will not give the girl to him. But Umgona's heart is white towards me, and towards Maputa it is black, therefore together we come to crave this boon of the king."
"You talk darkly, Inkoos." "Then I must make my meaning clear, Nanea. I love you." She opened her brown eyes wide. "You, a white lord, love me, a Zulu girl? How can that be?" "I do not know, Nanea, but it is so, and were you not blind you would have seen it. I love you, and I wish to take you to wife." "Nay, Inkoos, it is impossible. I am already betrothed."
This chief, he soon discovered, was named Maputa, being none other than the man who had sought Nanea in marriage and brought about Nahoon's and Umgona's unfortunate appeal to the king. At present he was engaged in abusing Umgona furiously, charging him with having stolen certain of his oxen and bewitched his cows so that they would not give milk.
Here he stood for a moment looking at the setting sun, then suddenly, and without a sound, he hurled himself into the abyss below and vanished. "That was a brave one," said the captain with admiration. "Can you spring too, girl, or must we throw you?" "I can walk my father's path," Nanea answered faintly, "but first I crave leave to say one word.
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