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Well, as I have told you before, the Tulwana were wiped out; of the three thousand or so of them I think only about fifty remained alive after they had annihilated the three of Cetewayo's regiments that set upon them. But as it chanced Magepa was one who survived. "I met him afterwards at old King Panda's kraal and recognised him as having fought by my side.
Although he escaped himself, Quatermain had lost friends on that fatal field. He went on: "To return to old Magepa. I had known him for many years. The first time we met was in the battle of the Tugela. I was fighting for the king's son, Umbelazi the Handsome, in the ranks of the Tulwana regiment I mean to write all that story, for it should not be lost.
He must be a cunning dog also, one who can run fast, for how comes it that he lives to snarl when so many will never bark again? Ow! if I had my way I would find a strip of hide to fit his neck. "'Not so, I answered, 'he has the King's peace and he is a brave man braver than I am, anyway, Prince, seeing that I ran from the ranks of the Tulwana, while he stood where he was.
Have I not heard how you led the Tulwana against the Usutu and stamped flat three of Cetywayo's regiments in the days of Panda, although, alas! because of an oath of mine I lifted no steel in that battle, I who will have nothing to do with those that spring from the blood of Senzangacona perhaps because I smell too strongly of it, Macumazahn.
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