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Updated: May 23, 2025
As you did not come back, I thought you had run away and left us, like that stinkcat Pereira." Just then Dingaan, having settled his great bulk upon the stool and recovered his breath, called to the lad Halstead, who was with him, and said: "O Tho-maas, ask your brother, Macumazahn, if he is ready to try to shoot the vultures.
"Indeed," said Dingaan suspiciously, "if that is what this man-woman says, her eyes tell one story and her lips another. Oh! Tho-maas, lie no more. Speak the true words of the white chieftainess, lest I should find them out otherwise, and give you to the slayers." Thus adjured, Halstead explained that he had not yet told all the words.
For a while he brooded heavily, then went on: "Your reason is good, Macumazahn, and I accept it. More, I promise you this. Perhaps I shall kill these Boers, or perhaps I shall not kill them. But if I make up my mind to kill them, this girl of yours shall be spared. Point her out to Kambula here not to Tho-maas, for he is a liar and would tell me the wrong one and she shall be spared."
"Then he can tell me about these Boers," he said, "and what they are after, or could if he were able to speak my tongue. I do not trust you to interpret, you Tho-maas, whom I know to be a liar," and he glowered at Halstead. "I can speak your tongue, though not very well, O king," I interrupted, "and I can tell you all about the Boers, for I have lived among them."
"Yes, yes, Macumazahn; but if you fail to kill them, remember that the next vultures you shoot at shall be those that come to feed upon their flesh, for then I shall know that you are no magician, but a common liar. And now begone, Tho-maas. I will not have you spying on me; and you, Macumazahn, come hither. Although you talk my tongue so badly, I would speak with you about the Boers."
Presently he saw me, and sent a councillor to say that I must come and interpret for him. So, dismounting, I went with Retief, Thomas Halstead, and a few of the leading Boers. "I am glad that you have come, as I know that you will speak my words truly, being one of the People of George whom I love, for Tho-maas here I do not trust, although he is also a Son of George." I told Retief what he said.
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