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You should ask Saduko there who Mameena is," he added with a broad grin, lifting his head from the gun, which he was examining gingerly, as though he thought it might go off again while unloaded, and nodding towards someone who stood behind him. I turned, and for the first time saw Saduko, whom I recognised at once as a person quite out of the ordinary run of natives.
"Why, friend, your face is familiar to me. How are you named?" "Have you forgotten Saduko?" he said in a pained voice. "No, no, of course not," I answered. "I know you now, although you seem somewhat changed since we went out hunting and fighting together I suppose because you are fatter. I trust that you are well, Saduko? Good-bye. I must be going back to my wagons.
The wizard suddenly seemed to become aware of our presence, for, ceasing his contemplation of the sinking sun, he scanned us both with his slow, thoughtful eyes, which somehow reminded me of those of a chameleon, although they were not prominent, but, as I have said, sunken. "Greeting, son Saduko!" he said in a deep, rumbling voice.
And the road is short, Saduko, and near the end of it are many spirits; and though you shut your eyes you see them, and though you fill your ears with clay you hear them, for they are the ghosts of your slain. But the end of your journeying I see not. Now choose which road you will, Son of Matiwane, and choose swiftly, for I speak no more of this matter.
As we went through the country Saduko had bought fine moochas and blankets for them; also head-dresses had been made with the long black feathers of the sakabuli finch, and shields and leglets of the hides and tails of oxen. Moreover, having fed plentifully and travelled easily, they were fat and well-favoured, as, given good food, natives soon become after a period of abstinence.
They argued with me for a long while, making great offers and promises of reward, till at length, when he saw that my determination could not be shaken, Umbelazi said: "Come, Saduko, let us humble ourselves no more before this white man.
"A small man," she said; "Saduko would make two of him, and the other" who was he, I wondered "three. His hair, too, is ugly; he cuts it short and it sticks up like that on a cat's back. Iya!" But white white, one of those who rule. Why, they all of them know that he is their master.
"You shall pay for this," roared Umbezi after him, turning almost green with rage, for Masapo still lay upon his broad back, speechless, "you who dare to insult my guest in my own house." "Somebody must pay," cried back Saduko from the gate, "but who it is only the unborn moons will see." "Mameena," I said as I followed him, "you have set fire to the grass, and men will be burned in it."
Oh, it is the fashion to abuse natives, but from whom do we meet with more fidelity and love than from these poor wild Kafirs that so many of us talk of as black dirt which chances to be fashioned to the shape of man? "As for myself, Inkoosi," added Saduko, "I only did my duty. How could I have held up my head again if the bull had killed you while I walked away alive?
Because you make him believe my place is that of his toy, not that of his companion, and this although I am cleverer than you and all your House tied into one bundle, as you may find out some day." "Yes," answered Nandie, quite undisturbed, "I do teach him these things, and I am glad that in this matter Saduko has a thinking head and listens to me.
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