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"Tshoza, Inkoosi," answered the man. "Tshoza! Tshoza!" I said, for the name seemed familiar to me. "Who is Tshoza?" He came from Zululand some years ago with Saduko the Mad." Then, of course, I remembered at once, and my mind flew back to the night when old Tshoza, the brother of Matiwane, Saduko's father, had cut out the cattle of the Bangu and we had fought the battle in the pass. "Oh!"
Will you come with me and share those cattle, O Watcher-by-Night?" "Get thee behind me, Satan," I said in English, then added in Zulu: "I don't know. If your story is true I should have no objection to helping to kill Bangu; but I must learn lots more about this business first.
"It might not be difficult," interrupted Saduko, "but I came here to kill Bangu, as well as to seize his cattle, since with him I have a blood feud." "Very good," I answered; "but that mountain cannot be stormed with three hundred men, fortified as it is with walls and schanzes.
Long have I wished to die, and what better companion could I find than Bangu, Chief of the Amakoba, Slayer of Children, to guard me on a dark and terrible road. Come, brave Bangu, come; kill me if you can, and again he laughed at him. "Now, Macumazahn, the people of Bangu fell back muttering, for they found this business horrible. Yes, even those who held my arms let go of them.
"Perhaps you will tell me why." "Because we must make a good trek to the northward before night, Inkoosi." "Indeed! I thought that I was heading south-east." "Bangu does not live in the south or the east," he replied slowly. "Oh, I had almost forgotten about Bangu," I said, with a rather feeble attempt at evasion. "Is it so?" he answered in his haughty voice.
But it would be useless, for knowing you well, I am sure that you would only hand them over to the British Government, as once you handed over the cattle of Bangu, being fashioned that way by the Great-Great, Macumazahn." "Perhaps I might, but then what should I gain, Zikali?"
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