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suppose you accoun and your armed hunters, it
would be fair that you should have half the cattle, would it not?"
"That's cool," I said "So, young etthe peace of his
country?"
"Neither, Macumazahn, for these are my own cattle Listen, now, and
I will tell you a story You have heard of Matiwane, the chief of the
Awane?"
"Yes," I answered "His tribe lived near the head of the Umzinyati,
did they not? Then they were beaten by the Boers or the English, and
Matiwane caaan wiped him out,
with his House, and now his people are killed or scattered"
"Yes, his people are killed and scattered, but his House still lives
Macumazahn, I am his House, I, the only son of his chief wife, for
Zikali the Wise Little One, the Ancient, who is of the Aaan--yes, and Senzangakona their father
before thereat and
has such hty spirits for his servants, saved and sheltered me"