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Among our number were three Amangwane who, on the slaughter of their tribe, had fled with their mothers to this district and been brought up among the people of Bangu, but who at his summons had come back to Saduko. It was on these men that we relied at this juncture, for they alone knew the country. Long and anxiously did we consult with them.
"They ate my father's meat, they drank his beer; they gave him a present from the king, they praised him with high names; yes, Bangu took snuff with him and called him brother. Then in the night, O in the night ! "My father was in the hut with my mother, and I, so big only" and he held his hand at the height of a boy of ten "was with them.
I asked again. "Here, in the valley beneath, Macumazahn," answered the spokesman. "If you listen you will hear them lowing. Fifty men, not less, watch them at night two thousand head of them, or more." "Then it would not be difficult to get round these cattle and drive them off, leaving Bangu to breed up a new herd?"
I will promise you not to die before I know the end of it. "Now, Macumazahn, I have told you things that hitherto have lived in my own heart only. And, Macumazahn, Bangu is in ill favour with Panda, whom he defies in his mountain, and I have a promise never mind how that he who kills him will be called to no account and may keep his cattle.
Then, within a moon, I hope, I shall return here to find you strong again and once more a man, and we will start out against Bangu, as I have whispered to you, with the leave of a High One, who has said that, if I can take any cattle, I may keep them for my pains." "I don't know about that, Saduko. I never promised you that I would make war upon Bangu with or without the king's leave."
Well, he will slay Bangu, who now has quarrelled with Panda, and a woman will come into the story, one Mameena, and that woman will bring about war between the sons of Panda, and from this war shall spring the ruin of the Zulus, for he who wins will be an evil king to them and bring down on them the wrath of a mightier race.
"'Only what? asked Bangu, hesitating. "'Only I wonder, Bangu, what you will think of the world in which you will find yourself before to-morrow's moon arises.
Afterwards, Bangu, we will divide the cattle, for Matiwane is strong and clever, and you shall not risk your life for nothing." Saduko paused and looked down at the ground, brooding heavily. "Macumazahn, it was done," he said presently.
Moreover, all these walls had been strengthened recently, perhaps because Bangu was aware that Panda looked upon him, a northern chief dwelling on the confines of his dominions, with suspicion and even active enmity, as he was also no doubt aware Panda had good cause to do. Here in a dense patch of bush that grew in a kloof of the hills we held a council of war.
Now, were anyone else concerned, I should forbid this expedition, and especially should I forbid you, a white man in my country, to share therein. But this dog of a Bangu is an evil-doer.
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