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"Well, we all assembled at Lukwazi's kraal on the last night of the old moon. I had not seen Xolilizwe since my return, and I was surprised at not finding him at Lukwazi's. Just before daylight the Shwama was administered to Bobazayo in the calf-kraal, and then to the members of his family.
You have no doubt also heard that when a chief confers the honours of chieftainship upon his 'great son, who is to succeed him, a special Shwama is held, and that on such an occasion the stolen first-fruits have to be mixed, by the witch-doctor in the skull of a man who has been killed for the purpose.
Now, amongst the people in this neighbourhood were very few whose rank was even equal to his own, and therefore when it became known that at the next feast of first-fruits, his son Bobazayo was to take the great Shwama, people began to wonder whose skull would be required.
Tomorrow, when you are going home, get off your horse and walk into the Ghoda bush at its lower extremity. These are the graves. But my story is not yet finished. "Lukwazi never saw another Shwama. The corn-yield that year was very plentiful, and in the early part of the winter beer flowed like water at every kraal.
Upon two points I kept wondering: one was in connection with the skull whose was it, and where had the witch-doctor obtained it? The other was the absence of Xolilizwe where was he, and what excuse would he give for not being present when the great son of the Chief took the Shwama? "We drank beer, and danced, and made merry all the forenoon.
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