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Updated: May 23, 2025
"So we let them hear the words, and when we had done an old man rose and said, that in the name of the people he accepted the yoke that was laid upon their shoulders, and that the more gladly because even the rule of a woman could not be worse than the rule of Wambe. Moreover, they knew Maiwa, the Lady of War, and feared her not, though she was a witch and terrible to see in battle.
"'These are the words of Wambe: "Send back the woman, my wife, who has run away from my kraal, and send with her the white man who has dared to hunt in my country without my leave, and to slay my soldiers." These are the words of Wambe. "'And if I say I will not send them? asked Nala. "'Then on behalf of Wambe we declare war upon you. Wambe will eat you up.
I gave it him, and was not disappointed in the result, for he brisked up wonderfully. Then I hunted about in Wambe's hut, and found a kaross to put over his poor bruised shoulders, and he was quite a man again. "'Now, I said, 'why did the late lamented Wambe want to put you in that trap?
They didn't kill me because one of them saw me mending a gun just before they attacked us, so they kept me as a kind of armourer. Twice I tried to make a bolt of it, but was caught each time. Last time Wambe had me flogged very nearly to death you can see the scars upon my back. Indeed I should have died if it hadn't been for the girl Maiwa, who nursed me by stealth.
I must make a plan, that's all. And then there's that stockade of tusks. I am not going to leave that either. Then I spoke to the woman. "'You are called Maiwa? "'It is so. "'You are the daughter of Nala and the wife of Wambe? "'It is so. "'You fly from Wambe to Nala? "'I do. "'Why do you fly?
It is true I saw the child die here is the proof of it, councillors, and she drew forth the little dead hand and held it before them. "'Ou! they said again, 'ou! it is the dead hand! "'Yes, she continued, 'it is the dead hand of my dead child, and I bear it with me that I may never forget, never for one short hour, that I live that I may see Wambe die, and be avenged.
"'I hear that a white man is hunting in the Matuku country. This is to warn him to fly over the mountain to Nala. Wambe sends an impi at daybreak to eat him up, because he has hunted before bringing hongo. For God's sake, whoever you are, try to help me. I have been the slave of this devil Wambe for nearly seven years, and am beaten and tortured continually.
'I am of the people of Nala, whose tribe is the Butiana tribe, and who lives there, and she pointed over the mountain. 'Also I am one of the wives of Wambe, and her eyes flashed as she said the name. "'And how did you come here? "'On my feet, she answered laconically. "We reached the packs, and undoing one of them, I extracted a handful of beads. 'Now, I said, 'a gift for a gift.
This then he said, and his words seemed good to me, and that same night ere I left to purify myself came news that a white man hunted in the country, and Wambe, being mad with drink, grew very wrath, and gave orders that an impi should be gathered to slay the white man and his people and seize his goods. "'Ah, I said, 'I thank you. And how many men be there in the impi of Wambe?
He loved the child that is dead, yes, he wept when its father slew it, and at the risk of his life told Wambe, my husband ah, yes, my husband! that which he is! He too it was who made a plan. He said to me, "Go, Maiwa, after the custom of thy people, go purify thyself in the bush alone, having touched a dead one.
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