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"Death," said the circle of indunas, pointing their thumbs downwards, and all the multitude beyond echoed the word "Death." "Death," repeated the head induna, adding, "If you save her, my father, we will slay her with our own hands. She is a Babyan-woman, a devil-woman; ah, yes, we have heard of such before; let her be slain before she works more evil."
"A few picked warriors whom I brought with me, Macumazahn. There were one or two more, but they got lost on the way." Then we went to the waggon and spoke no more that night. Next morning I told Umslopogaas of the visit I had received from the Induna of the King who wished me to come to the royal kraal. He nodded and said,
A very Paradise of beauty and grandeur side by side, thought Laurence amid which the shields and spears, the marching column of the savage host seemed strangely out of keeping. "How are they called, those mountains, Silawayo?" he said. "Beyond them lies the land of the People of the Spider," answered the induna evasively.
The induna, Tamboosa, on one of his ceremonial visits, after speaking of the health of her mare, which, it seemed was improving, mentioned incidentally that the messengers running night and day had met the white man and "called back" that he was safe and well. He added that had it not been for her vision this said white man would certainly have been killed as a spy.
"Come hither," he called, to a very old Induna or councillor, who was sitting with others in a circle round the king, but out of ear-shot. The ancient man rose, approached, saluted, and seated himself. "Thou art aged," said Ignosi. "Ay, my lord the king! Thy father's father and I were born on the same day." "Tell me, when thou wast little, didst thou know Gagaoola the witch doctress?"
At these words the "Elephant" uttered a sharp exclamation, and rolled from his stool in a most unkingly manner, whilst the terrified Induna, springing backwards, contrived to touch the trigger of the rifle and discharge a bullet through the exact spot that a second before had been occupied by his monarch's head.
If not, I will bid the king farewell, and journey to Natal." "In order to make report of what he has seen and learned here," muttered Cetywayo. At this moment the talk was interrupted, for the soldiers who had led away the old Induna returned at speed, and prostrated themselves before the king. "Is he dead?" he asked.
As it chanced, however, on the day after the incident of the visit of Maputa, a messenger arrived from no less a person than the great military Induna, Tvingwayo ka Marolo, who afterwards commanded the Zulu army at Isandhlwana, ordering these men to return to their regiment, the Umcityu Corps, which was to be placed upon full war footing.
For days we have seen no man, the remains of huts have we seen, but of people none. You too were remarking upon it but yesterday." "That is so," assented Laurence. "The remains of huts, but of people none," repeated the induna, with a wave of his hand. "Well, stranger, that is the name of the king, the Great Great One." "The name of the king?" "I'Tyisandhlu!" "I'Tyisandhlu?
At the first break of dawn the Induna in command of the Umcityu looked up from beneath the shelter of the black shield with which he had covered his body, and through the thick mist he saw a great man standing before him, clothed only in a moocha, a gaunt wild-eyed man who held a rough club in his hand.
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