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Updated: May 17, 2025
Oh, she will grow great, and carry up her poor old father in the blanket on her back. Oh, the sun still shines behind the cloud, Macumazahn, so let us make the best of the cloud, since we know that it will break out presently." "Yes, Umbezi; but other things besides the sun break out from clouds sometimes lightning, for instance; lightning which kills."
"I return here, O Umbezi, to speak with the white chief, Macumazahn. As to where I have been, that is my affair, and not yours or Masapo's." "Now, if I were chief of this kraal," said Masapo, "I would hunt out of it this hyena with a mangy coat and without a hole who comes to devour your meat and, perhaps," he added with meaning, "to steal away your child."
Nothing is quite perfect in the world, Macumazahn, and if Mameena does not chance to love her husband " and he shrugged his shoulders and drank some "squareface." "Of course it does not matter in the least, Umbezi, except to Mameena and her husband, who no doubt will settle down in time, now that Saduko is married to a princess of the Zulu House."
Only Scowl whose dash of Hottentot blood made him cunning and cautious took my side, pointing out that we were very short of powder and that buffalo "ate up much lead." At last Saduko said: "The lord Macumazana is our captain; we must obey him, although it is a pity. But doubtless the prophesying of Zikali weighs upon his mind, so there is nothing to be done." "Zikali!" exclaimed Umbezi.
So we went, to find that Umbezi was in a hut with his last wife and asleep. Fortunately enough, however, as under the circumstances I did not wish to disturb him, outside the hut we found the Old Cow, whose sore ear had kept her very wide awake, who, for purposes of her own, although etiquette did not allow her to enter the hut, was waiting for her husband to emerge.
Don't you see, Macumazahn, that he means to kill me, Macumazahn, to bray me like a green hide? Ugh! to beat me to death with sticks. Ugh! And what is more, that unless you prevent him, he will certainly do it, perhaps to-morrow or the next day. Ugh! Ugh! Ugh!" "Yes, I see, Umbezi, and I think that he will do it. But what I do not see is how I am to prevent him.
This Umbezi was a stout and genial-mannered man of about sixty years of age, and, what is rare among these people, one who loved sport for its own sake. Being aware of his tastes, also that he knew the country and was skilled in finding game, I had promised him a gun if he would accompany me and bring a few hunters.
Off it went in due course, its recoil knocking him backwards for that gun was a devil to kick and its bullet cutting the top off the ear of one of his wives. The lady fled screaming, leaving a little bit of her ear upon the ground. "What does it matter?" said Umbezi, as he picked himself up, rubbing his shoulder with a rueful look.
The Kafirs gave him another name after that encounter, which meant "He-who-fights-birds-and-gets-the-worst-of-it." Well, we escaped from the line of the smoke, a dishevelled trio indeed, Umbezi had nothing left on him except his head ring and shouted for the others, if perchance they had not been trodden to death in the rush.
But while I was away with Macumazahn, who sits yonder, to destroy Bangu, chief of the Amakoba, he who had killed my father, Umbezi, the father of Mameena, he whom the Prince Cetewayo gave to the vultures the other day because he had lied as to the death of Umbelazi, he, I say, forced Mameena, against her will, to marry Masapo the Boar, who afterwards was executed for wizardry.
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