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Updated: May 18, 2025
"As every one knows, you are a much greater expert in native habits and customs than I am, Mr. Quatermain." "There are only two things that I can think of," I said. "One is that for some reason or other they thought the wagon tagati, bewitched you know, and that it would bring evil on them to touch it, though this did not apply to the oxen.
It is I who have the power." "Yes, because as I said, you are tagati, but there are others " As these words passed his lips someone slipped by him. Starting back, he saw that it was Noie, draped in her usual white robe, for nothing would induce her to wear European clothes.
"Say, what is in that mat?" and he pointed with his little assegai at the bundle on my shoulders. "Medicine, king." "Thou dost carry enough to doctor an impi. Undo the mat and let me look at it." "Now, my father, I tell you that the marrow melted in my bones with terror, for if I undid the mat I feared he must see the child and then " "It is tagati, it is bewitched, O king.
No promise of reward would induce any of our Zulu bearers even to wet their feet in the waters of this River Luba, which for some reason that I could not extract from them they declared to be tagati, that is, bewitched, to people of their blood.
No, do not try to touch me; you know that I can defend myself if I choose," and she glanced at the pistol which she always carried in that wild land, "I am not afraid of you, Mr. Ishmael; it is you who are afraid of me." "Perhaps I am," he exclaimed, "because those Zulus are right, you are tagati, an enchantress, not like other women, white or black.
Seeing that he remained untouched amidst this hail of lead, they cried out that he was 'tagati, or magic-guarded, but the indunas ordered them to continue their fire. They did so, and a bullet passing through his hips, the Englishman fell down paralysed.
But they had not allowed for the expansion caused by the fizz in the wine, and, feeling themselves swelling, rolled about in the bottom of the boat, calling out that the good liquor was "tagati" that is, bewitched. I spoke to them from the vessel, and told them it was the white man's strongest medicine, and that they were as good as dead men.
There was a sound as though a hollow tree had been smitten and some strands of the long beard, shorn off, fell to the ground, but that was all. "Tagati! "That stroke should have cut him in two!" while I thought to myself that this man knew how to make good armour. Rezu laughed aloud, a bellowing kind of laugh, while Umslopogaas sprang back astonished. "Is it thus!" he cried in Zulu.
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