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Updated: May 17, 2025
The plan of Saduko was to lie quiet in the bush that night, and on the following morning to advance in all his grandeur, accompanied by his spears, present the hundred head of cattle that had been demanded, and formally ask his daughter's hand from Umbezi.
And so you killed him, 'Eater-up-of-Elephants, father of Mameena, you who this morning were one of the meanest of his jackals. Now, what reward shall I give you for this mighty deed, O Umbezi?" "A great reward, O Terrible One," began Umbezi, but in an awful voice Cetewayo bade him be silent. "Yes," he said, "a great reward. Hearken, Jackal and Traitor. Your own words bear witness against you.
Because you know that Saduko loves my little finger more than he does your whole body, although you are of the King's blood and have borne him brats," she answered, looking at the infant with no kindly eye. "It may be so, daughter of Umbezi, for men have their fancies, and without doubt you are fair.
Also she was, I think, the most able, the most wicked, and the most ambitious. Her attractive name for it was very attractive as the Zulus said it, especially those of them who were in love with her was Mameena, daughter of Umbezi. Since I have been settled in England I have read of course in a translation the story of Helen of Troy, as told by the Greek poet, Homer.
Oh, give me some more of that fire-water, Macumazahn, for it makes me forget all these things, and especially that my guardian spirit made me the father of Mameena, with whom you would not run away when you might have done so. "Because if I had done so, Umbezi, I should have ceased to be a quiet white man.
Now, at this speech Saduko shifted his feet uneasily; it seemed to me as though he felt there was truth in Umbezi's estimate of his daughter's character. But he only said: "Cattle can be acquired." "Or stolen," suggested Umbezi. "Or taken in war," corrected Saduko. "When I have a hundred head I will hold you to your word, O father of Mameena."
Also I agree that it is likely I shall learn many more ill things through and of you one day, daughter of Umbezi. And now, as it is not good that we should wrangle before this white lord, again I say to you that this is my hut, in which I wish to speak alone with my guest." "I go, I go!" gasped Mameena; "but I tell you that Saduko shall hear of this."
She will be sure to be up by then; or, better still, the day after?" "In which hut is Mameena?" asked Saduko sternly, while I, smelling a rat, began to chuckle to myself. "I really do not know, Saduko," replied Umbezi. "Sometimes she sleeps in one, sometimes in another, and sometimes she goes several hours' journey away to her aunt's kraal for a change.
"What is the matter, Macumazahn?" asked old Umbezi, who was waiting outside. "Nothing at all, friend," I answered with a sweet smile, "except that your wife wants to see you at once. She is in pain, and wishes you to soothe her. Go in; do not hesitate." After a moment's pause he went in that is, half of him went in.
For a while Nandie bore it with patience, but at length she took advantage of a pause in the conversation to say in her firm, low voice: "This is my hut, daughter of Umbezi, a thing which you remember well enough when it is a question whether Saduko, our husband, shall visit you or me.
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