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Moreover, as Silawayo explained, even when the weather was at its highest stage of sultriness elsewhere, in the mountains the changes were sudden and great. To be snowed up in this pass was too serious a matter to risk. "Was it the only gate by which the country of the Ba-gcatya was entered, then?" But Silawayo did not seem to hear this question.
Laurence, standing upright within it, could make out three seated figures, the shimmer of their head-rings and the occasional shine of eyeballs being the only distinct feature about them. Then somebody threw an armful of dry twigs upon the fire which burned in the centre, and as the light crackled up he saw before him the king and the two fighting indunas, Ngumúnye and Silawayo.
He would chaff the girls, when he came upon them wandering in bevies, as was their wont, and tell them strange stories of other conditions of life, until they fairly screamed with laughter, or brought their hands to their mouths in mute wonder. "Whau, Nyonyoba, why do you not lobola for some of these?" said Silawayo one day, coming upon him thus engaged.
"Did not Silawayo but now say that only one white man had visited your country and even he had not returned?" said Laurence, in native fashion answering one query with another. "Ha!" cried both chiefs, whom an idea seemed to strike. Then Ngumúnye went on impressively: "Look around, O bearer of the Sign of the Spider.
A very Paradise of beauty and grandeur side by side, thought Laurence amid which the shields and spears, the marching column of the savage host seemed strangely out of keeping. "How are they called, those mountains, Silawayo?" he said. "Beyond them lies the land of the People of the Spider," answered the induna evasively.
"Have no white people ever visited your country, Silawayo?" he said one day while he and the two war-chiefs were talking together during the march. "One only," was the reply, given with a shade of hesitation. "And what became of him?" "Au! He went to Well, he went " answered the chief, with a curious look. The reply smote upon Laurence with a cold fear.
And they sped away, still screaming with laughter. The old induna looked quizzically after them, then at Laurence. Then he took snuff. "One might do worse, Silawayo," repeated Laurence. "I have known worse times than those I have already undergone here. But all I possess I have lost.
What grim and gruesome form of mysterious doom did it not point to? "One only," Silawayo had said. He himself was the second. It seemed ominous. But it would never do to manifest curiosity, let alone apprehension, on his own account, so he forebore further query as to the mystery, whatever it might be. Yet he thought it no harm to say: "And what was this white man, Silawayo?"
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