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Updated: May 23, 2025
I came up here with Major Aldey and three other gentlemen and forty bearers. That devil Wambe ambushed us, and murdered the lot to get their guns. They weren't much use to him when he got them, being breech-loaders, for the fools fired away all the ammunition in a month or two. However, they are all in good order, and hanging up in the hut there.
"'Because as soon as they heard that the fight was going against them, and that Maiwa was charging at the head of Nala's impi, one of the women told Wambe that she had seen me write something on some leaves and give them to Maiwa before she went away to purify herself.
"'I mean to do this, white man, she answered, drawing herself up to her full height, and speaking in tones as hard as steel and cold as ice 'I mean to work, and work, and work, to bring this to pass, and to bring that to pass, until at length it comes to pass that with these living eyes I behold Wambe dying the death that he gave to his child and my child. "'Well said, I answered.
"These courtesies concluded, Nala called upon his daughter Maiwa to tell her tale to the head men, and this she did most simply and effectively. She reminded them that she had gone as an unwilling bride to Wambe that no cattle had been paid for her, because Wambe had threatened war if she was not sent as a free gift.
Wambe, it appeared, was a very powerful petty chief, that is, he could put at least six thousand fighting men into the field, and always had from three to four thousand collected about his kraal, which was supposed to be impregnable.
The head man of our party answered that he was conveying Maiwa, Wambe's runaway wife, together with the white hunter and his men, to be given up to Wambe in accordance with his command.
They should follow those elephants for one half-hour more, then if we failed to come upon them I would abandon the pursuit, and we would go straight to Wambe, chief of the Matuku, and give him hongo. "To this compromise the men agreed readily.
Oh, what a selfish brute was I! For the moment that miserable ivory had driven the recollection of him out of my head, and now perhaps it was too late. "Nala, Maiwa, and the soldiers had now come up. They too heard the voice and interpreted its tone, though they had not caught the words. "'This way, cried Maiwa, and we started at a run, passing round the hut of Wambe.
I looked up, and saw that it was the chief Nala himself, who was bleeding from a flesh wound in his arm. By his side stood Maiwa panting, but unhurt, and wearing on her face a proud and terrifying air. "'They are gone, Macumazahn, said the chief; 'there is little to fear from them, their heart is broken. But where is Wambe the chief? and where is the white man thou camest to save?
Meanwhile, I meant to hunt elephants with a peaceful heart. "On the third day from the date of our sighting the great peak, we found ourselves beneath its shadow. Still following the course of the river which wound through the forests at the base of the peak, we entered the territory of the redoubtable Wambe.
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