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He greeted me warmly, and I told him my trouble about the oxen, whereon he sent away the shield-holder, leaving us two together. "Watcher-by-Night," he said, "why do you blame me for these events, when you know that I am nobody in my own House? I say that I am a dead man, whose sons fight for his inheritance. I cannot tell you for certain who it was that drove away your oxen.
Has a white man come to fight me for the chieftainship of the People of the Axe? Well, he is a small one." "No," I answered quietly, "but Macumazahn, Watcher-by-Night, has come to visit you in answer to your request, O Umslopogaas; Macumazahn whose name was known in this land before yours was told of, O Umslopogaas." The Chief heard and rising from his seat, lifted the big axe in salute.
Then away with you back to him and tell this King of whom I have never heard, though I have a message for a certain Umslopogaas, that Macumazahn, Watcher-by-Night, intends to visit him to-morrow, if he will send a guide at the first light to show the best path for the waggon." "Hearken," said the man to his companions, "this is Macumazahn himself and no other.
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