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Updated: June 12, 2025
At the sight of the fall of their giant chief Rezu whom they believed to be invulnerable, his followers, who were watching the fray, set up a great wailing, a most mournful and uncanny noise to hear.
"My wisdom shall be your guide," she answered, "this white man shall be your General and there stands the warrior who shall meet Rezu face to face and bring him to the dust," and she pointed to Umslopogaas leaning upon his axe and watching them with a contemptuous smile. This reply did not seem to please the man for he withdrew to consult again with his companions.
There he stood, gathering himself together for some mighty effort. "Run on!" shouted the spectators. "Run back to Kôr, black dog!" Umslopogaas knew that they were mocking him, but he took no heed, only bent down and rubbed his sweating hand in the grit of the dry earth. Then he straightened himself and charged down on Rezu.
To-night when the moon rises I will come to where you are, not before, for I have much that must be done, and show you those with whom you must fight against Rezu, and make a plan of battle." "But I do not want to fight," I answered, "who have fought enough and came here to seek wisdom, not bloodshed." "First the sacrifice, then the reward," she answered, "that is if any are left to be rewarded.
Well, there was nothing to do but to put it on again. Before I had finished this operation Billali himself arrived with undignified and unusual haste. I asked him what was the matter, and he answered inconsequently that the Black One, the slayer of Rezu, was at the door "with his axe." "That generally accompanies him," I replied.
There was a sound as though a hollow tree had been smitten and some strands of the long beard, shorn off, fell to the ground, but that was all. "Tagati! "That stroke should have cut him in two!" while I thought to myself that this man knew how to make good armour. Rezu laughed aloud, a bellowing kind of laugh, while Umslopogaas sprang back astonished. "Is it thus!" he cried in Zulu.
The chief of them answered that it was to advance halfway down the right-hand ridge to a spot where there was a narrow flat piece of ground, and there await attack, since at this place their smaller numbers would not so much matter, whereas these made it impossible for them to assail the enemy. "But suppose that Rezu should choose to come up to the other ridge and get behind you.
Now, thou Wizard Rezu, now thou Giant, now thou Ghost-man, come on against me and before the sun has risen by a hand's breadth, all those who watch shall see which of us is better at the game of war. Come on, then! Come on, for I say that my blood boils over and my feet grow cold.
Then, Baas, when Rezu broke the square and the Amahagger began to run, without doubt it was the Great Medicine which changed their hearts and made them brave again, so that they charged at the right moment when they saw it going forward on your breast, and instead of being eaten up, ate up the cannibals." "Indeed! I thought that the Lady who dwells yonder had something to do with that business.
For these were the descendants of those who escaped the pestilence. Also there were certain others, children of the worshippers of Lulala whose kingdom is the moon, and of Truth the Queen, who clung to the gentle worship of their forefathers and were ever at war with the followers of Rezu." "What brought you to Kôr, Ayesha?" I asked irrelevantly.
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