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Updated: June 23, 2025
"O Spirits of my fathers, toiling through many years I have avenged you on the House of Senzangacona, and never again will there be a king of the Zulus, for the last of them lies dead by my hand. O my murdered wives and my children, I have offered up to you a mighty sacrifice, a sacrifice of thousands upon thousands.
I must tell this also; that Dingaan would have killed Panda, his half-brother, so that the house of Senzangacona, his father, might be swept out clean.
I listened, saying always that it was not enough, till in the end both of them swore by their heads, and by the bones of Senzangacona, their father, and by many other things, that I should be the first man in the land, after them, its kings, and should command the impis of the land, if I would but show them a way to kill Chaka and become kings.
Come hither, come hither, thou son of Senzangacona, come from the fields of Death and tell me what was that bargain which thou madest with Mopo, thou and another?" and once again Rachel beckoned, this time upwards in the air.
"Where dost thou point at us with that white and withered hand of thine, Wizard?" hissed the Prince Umhlangana. "Have I not told you, O ye Princes!" I whispered, "that ye must strike or die, and has not your heart failed you? Now hearken! Chaka has dreamed another dream; now it is Chaka who strikes, and ye are already dead, ye children of Senzangacona."
Surely he 'sleeps in thy shadow'!" Then there was silence, only through the silence was heard a gasp of fear and wonder, for no such deed as this had been wrought in the presence of the king no, not since the day of Senzangacona the Root. Now Dingaan spoke, and his voice came thick with rage, and his limbs trembled. "Slay him!" he hissed. "Slay the dog and all those with him!"
Then at last Zikali answered in his low voice that yet seemed to fill all the kloof "Nay, Child of Senzangacona, age has not made me deaf, but my spirit in these latter days floats far from my body. It is like a bladder filled with air that a child holds by a string, and before I can speak I must draw it from the heavens to earth again. What did you say about the place that I have chosen?
I examined the leg. There were the notches, twenty-two or three of them. On the other legs were more notches too numerous to reckon. "Do not look at those, Macumazahn, for they have nothing to do with you. They tell the years since the first of the House of Senzangacona sat upon that stool, since Chaka sat upon it, since Dingaan and others sat upon it, one Mameena among them.
"Listen, Son of Panda," went on Zikali in an intense and hissing voice. "Many, many years ago, before Senzangacona, your grandfather, saw the light who knows how long before a man was born of high blood in the Dwandwe tribe, which man was a dwarf.
And afterwards, as they sat at night by the fire in the cave they spoke together. "How are you named?" asked Umslopogaas of the other. "I am named Galazi the Wolf," he answered, "and I am of Zulu blood ay, of the blood of Chaka the king; for the father of Senzangacona, the father of Chaka, was my great-grandfather." "Whence came you, Galazi?"
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