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nails and teeth like a hyena I looked back out of the shadow of the hut

and saw Matiwanelike a buffalo Men went down before

hih he had no shield: only his spear Then

Bangu crept behind him and stabbed him in the back and he threw up his

arh the fence We

ran, but they perceived us They hunted us as wild dogs hunt a buck

They killed ai; it entered at her back

and came out at her heart I went mad, I drew it from her body, I ran at

them I dived beneath the shield of the first, a very tall man, and held

the spear, so, in both ht cah he were but a bowl of buttermilk Yes,

he rolled over, quite dead, and the handle of the spear broke upon the

ground Now the others stopped astonished, for never had they seen such

a thing That a child should kill a tall warrior, oh! that tale had not

been told Sou came

up and saw the dead man, as his brother