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Anyhow, after his death the Zulus began to maltreat us Undwandwe and the Quabies and the Tetwas with us you may remember that they called us the Amatefula, making a mock of us. He gave me a name which means 'The-thing-which-should-never-have-been-born. I will not speak that name, it is secret to me, it may not pass my lips.
Is there anything else you would like to learn?" "Yes, Zikali; how old?" "There, there, Macumazahn, as you know, we poor Kafirs cannot count very well. How old? Well, when I was young I came down towards the coast from the Great River, you call it the Zambesi, I think, with Undwandwe, who lived in the north in those days.
In my heart I reflected that the light they were likely to get from him would be such as may be supposed to be thrown by hell fire. For be it remembered I knew what these people never seemed to understand, that Zikali was the most bitter of their enemies. To begin with, he was of Undwandwe blood, one of the people whom the great king Chaka had destroyed.
My principal companions were a Kafir of mixed origin, called Sikauli, commonly abbreviated into Scowl, the Zulu chief Saduko, and a headman of the Undwandwe blood named Umbezi, at whose kraal on the high land about thirty miles away I left my wagon and certain of my men in charge of the goods and some ivory that I had traded.
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