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Teddy, being in the fullest confidence of his Chief, was present when instructions were accordingly given to Vooda, who was directed to start early next morning for the kraal of the Chief of the Kwesas, in Pondoland.
The war-doctor gave a harsh laugh and shouted that there was no magic in the business, and that the Lightning Bird's plumage was still intact so far as Vooda was concerned; he, the war-doctor, knew how the thing was done, and would presently explain. Sololo and the others murmured amongst themselves. "Now," said Vooda, "I will make water burn with a bright flame like dry wood."
Vooda, being an old friend of the Chief, was invited to sit down and drink, so, after removing the saddle from his horse, he joined the party. He soon saw, however, that his presence had imported an element of restraint. He was careful as yet not to allude to the business upon which he had come. Later on others began to arrive, some carrying guns, some spears, and some assegais.
All the spectators were horribly frightened, and shrank back, their eyeballs starting, and their lips wide apart. "Now," said Vooda, who felt that he had practically won the game, "I will produce the eggs of Icanti, the terrible serpent, and make them hatch out live snakes. Were I to do this without having other greater magic ready wherewith to overcome them, the snakes would kill us all.
He was a Government official holding the appointment of clerk to the Resident Magistrate of Mount Loch, which district, as everybody knows, is situated in the territory of Bantuland East, and just on the border of Pondoland. Vooda was a native Police Constable attached to the Mount Loch establishment. Teddy's age was twenty-six, but he looked several years younger.
"What is this thing that frightens a man who is the father of children?" "We, also, have our magic," said Sololo, glancing at Shasha, the war-doctor. Shasha came forward in a half-crouching attitude, and approached Vooda, who appeared to be very much impressed. The war-doctor's appearance was startling enough. He was an elderly man of hideous aspect. On his head he wore a high cap of baboon skin.
Now, if a bullet such as this be shot into a river, the water blazes up and consumes the land." "Give it to me that I may examine it," said Shasha. Vooda handed a small paring of the potassium to the war-doctor, saying; "Be very careful, O you-whom-the-owls-obey-in-the-dark, because it is dangerous stuff."
The purport of the message was that Vooda should go to Sololo and talk quietly to him, endeavouring by means of persuasion to effect a compliance with the reasonable demands of Government.
He may then hide in the caves of the rocks where the buffalo cannot follow," said Sololo, sententiously. "The buffalo may call the wolves to his aid to drive the leopard from his cave," rejoined Vooda, developing the allegory further; "but why will you not give up the wrong-doer to the magistrate?" "Why must I give up my friend to be choked with a rope?" said Sololo, excitedly.
Vooda and Teddy were great friends, Vooda taking a lively and intelligent interest in Teddy's experiments. Every one knows that in the early part of 1894, Pondoland, the last independent native State south of Natal, was annexed to Cape Colony.
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