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Updated: July 27, 2025
"Let us go, father!" shouted the soldiers on the slope, among whom I was, to their chief, who had come up. "You have sent out the little girls to fight, and they are frightened. Let us show them the way." "No, no!" the chief Sususa answered, laughing. "Wait a minute and the little girls will grow to women, and women are good enough to fight against Boers!"
The chief Sususa gave an order, the dead men were picked up and piled in a heap, while those who were slightly hurt walked off to find some one to tie up their wounds. But the more serious cases met with a different treatment. The chief or one of his indunas considered each case, and if it was in any way bad, the man was taken up and thrown into the river which ran near.
Sususa came up to him, and, having examined the wound, rated him soundly for failing in the first onslaught. The poor fellow made the excuse that it was not his fault, as the Boers had hit him in the first rush. His brother admitted the truth of this, and talked to him amicably. "Well," he said at length, offering him a pinch of snuff, "you cannot walk again."
When he heard, therefore, that the regiment was an Umtetwa regiment, which, leaving their wives and children, had broken away from Zululand to escape the cruelties of Dingaan; under pretence of spying on them, he took the bold course of going straight up to the chief, Sususa, and addressing him as his brother, which he was.
It happened many years ago, but the whole scene rises up before my eyes as I write. There behind us was the blood-stained laager, and near it lay the piles of dead; round us was rank upon rank of plumed savages, standing in silence to wait the issue of the duel, and in the centre stood the grey-haired chief and general, Sususa, in all his war finery, a cloak of leopard skin upon his shoulders.
"No, chief," said the wounded man, looking at his ankle. "And to-morrow we must walk far," went on Sususa. "Yes, chief." "Say, then, will you sit here on the veldt, or " and he nodded towards the river. The man dropped his head on his breast for a minute as though in thought. Presently he lifted it and looked Sususa straight in the face. To kill these snakes is sacrilege.
Ay, because he had but been there many of your bravest were slain in overcoming a few a pinch of men who could be counted on the fingers. But because I loved you, because your chief Sususa is my half-brother for had we not one father? I came to you, I warned you. Then you prayed me and I drew the Spirit forth.
Iron-Tongue whispered of him, he smelt him out, my brother. Now the Maboona are ours they are already dead, my brother." So that treacherous villain Indaba-zimbi had betrayed me. Suddenly the chief of the Impi, a grey-haired man named Sususa, held up his assegai, and instantly there was silence. Then he spoke to some indunas who stood near him.
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