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resemblance to that recorded in the Old Testa Saul

It by no means follows, however, that it is therefore apocryphal;

indeed, Mr Fynney assured ave me his authorities, I cannot remember them after a lapse of more

than thirty years

The exact circueneral

report was that he died, not by the assegais of the Usutu, but of a

broken heart Another story declares that he was drowned His body was

never found, and it is therefore probable that it sank in the Tugela, as

is suggested in the following pages

I have only to add that it is quite in accordance with Zulu beliefs

that a host of one whom he has murdered

or betrayed, or, to be more accurate, that the spirit ("umoya") should

enter into the slayer and drive hi misfortune upon him, his family, or his tribe

H RIDER HAGGARD