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"The chiefs white men," was the cry that rose, that reached Mr. Hume as he fought coolly, warily, in a crisis of the battle, knowing that, if he gave back an inch, the men behind him would bolt, and Hassan's horde would swarm into the valley. "Hurrah, my brave lads!" he roared. "You there behind, meet the white men and lead them up to the place where I first stood." "Yebo Inkose!
Now, for the first time, Saduko's face changed. "Yes, Black One," he said hurriedly, "but " Here he caught my eye, and, reading some warning in it, was silent. "But," repeated Panda after him, "doubtless you would like to be? Well, it is natural in a young man who wishes to found a House, and therefore I give you leave to marry." "Yebo, Silo!" Here I sneezed loudly, and he ceased.
"Therefore," went on Panda, "for this reason, and for others, I am glad that Bangu has been punished, and that, although vengeance has crawled after him like a footsore bull, at length he has been tossed with its horns and crushed with its knees." "Yebo, Ngonyama!"
"What is this new law, O great one?" she asked quietly, having been much subdued by the fiery rockets. "You made the law, mother, that all should work, and I have honoured it. See that you honour it also." "Yebo, great one. We women do not complain. It is a joy to us to see the men work also. Maybe in time," she added significantly, "the great one will do his turn also."
"Indabeni is not a Pondo, neither am I Indabeni," said Sololo, appealing, with a look, to the audience. "Yebo, Yebo, Ewe E-hea," shouted all the men. "I did not ask Government for its laws," continued the Chief. We were surprised, and could not think or speak. Besides, who listens to the bleating of a goat when an angry bull bellows?