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Updated: June 24, 2025

"Ow!" said Dingaan, intensely interested. "But perhaps you are also a liar. Or are you a praying man, like that fool yonder, who is named Oweena?" he meant the missionary Mr. Owen "whom I spare because it is not lucky to kill one who is mad, although he tries to frighten my soldiers with tales of a fire into which they will go after they are dead.

Henry Rider Haggard - Marie : An Episode in The Life of the late Allan Quatermain