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Updated: June 19, 2025
"We are all cousins; why shall one be treated better than the other?" "As you please! you have received your due, and to-day we march." After this I rose and returned to my hut ready for the inevitable "row." It was not long coming; the new arrivals set up the war-song, and Gidi Mavunga thought it time to make a demonstration.
How in blazes I'd managed to slip through those Injuns I don't know. 'Twould have been a wonderful piece of scouting if I'd meant it. You can 'most always do any darn thing you don't want to do. Well, there I was, and, oh Doctor! but wasn't I in a lovely mess! That war-song put a crimp into me that Jack Frost himself couldn't take out. It was as dark as dark by this time.
Whereupon, when they had made a safe distance, the two warriors drew their canoes somewhat apart and waited side by side for me to come between. And I came between, spear in hand, and singing the war-song of my people. Each flung a spear, but I bent my body, and the spears whistled over me, and I was unhurt.
The seat of the Great Great One the Strong Wind that burns from the North," murmured Ngumúnye, interpreting his glance of inquiry. "Come let us go down." As the great impi, which up till now had been marching "at ease," emerged upon the plain, once more the warriors formed into rank, and advanced in serried columns singing a war-song. Immediately the whole land was as a disturbed beehive.
Expressively it slowly sinks away amid echoing phrases and yields to the duet of elegy and the first reel. But a new spirit has appeared. The sting of war-song is gone. And here is the reel in slow reluctant pace. After another verse of the fairy tune, the jig plays still slower, while above sings a new melody.
A band in the street below was playing an old war-song of the sixties, revived this battle summer of '98, a song that was sung when the cost of that war was beginning to tell, "We shall meet, but we shall miss him." Elsie knew the music; she had not yet learned the words. Next morning Mr.
"That accounts for the drumming of the war-song." "It was first a gentle gavotte, but impatience quickened the time. I am a musician, Fraulein." "But probably no drummer. The poor panes!" "They are an instrument like any other, and in playing we seek to express what we feel." "Then accept my thanks for not breaking them to pieces."
Must the gods die or live? So intense and fearful was the hush, unbroken by a breath of air or the calling of a bird, that Otter could bear it no longer, but suddenly burst into song. He had a fine deep voice, and it was a Zulu war-song that he sang, a triumphant paean of the rush of conquering impis interspersed with the wails of women and the groans of the dying.
They follow each other with dignified composure about the fields or lawn, into trees and upon the ground, with plumage slightly spread, breasts glowing, their lisping, shrill war-song just audible. It forms on the whole the most civil and high-bred tilt to be witnessed during the season. When the cock-robin makes love he is the same considerate, deferential, but insinuating gallant.
At last Dan Boggs, who's always bubblin' that a-way, speaks up: "'Which I'm shore sorry, says Dan, 'you don't fetch the moosic of that Purple Blossom's war-song West. I deems that a mighty excellent lay, an' would admire to learn it an' sing it some myse'f. I'd shore go over an' carol it to Red Dog; it would redooce them drunkards to frenzy." Where Whiskey Billy Died.
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