u'donga-lu-ka-tatiyana

Updated: May 27, 2025

Then I grew sick at heart, my father ay, though I loved my people little, and they had driven me away, I grew sick at heart. Now we had come to a spot where there is a great rift of black rock, and the name of that rift is U'Donga-lu-ka-Tatiyana. On either side of this donga the ground slopes steeply down towards its yawning lips, and from its end a man may see the open country.

Henry Rider Haggard - Nada the Lily

It was a little matter that we wagered on as to whether the people of the Langeni tribe thine own tribe, Baleka, my sister would fill yonder place, U'Donga-lu-ka-Tatiyana. When they heard of the bet, my sister, the people of the Langeni hurled themselves into the rift by thousands, being eager to put the matter to the proof.

Henry Rider Haggard - Nada the Lily

I went, and we walked alone and in silence, Chaka leading the way and I following after him. Now I saw that his feet led him towards the U'Donga-lu-ka-Tatiyana, that place where all my people lay dead, and with them Baleka, my sister.

Henry Rider Haggard - Nada the Lily