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shook my head went on: "Well, I can, as you white men read a book All

your history is written here, Macumazahn; but there is no need to tell

you that, since you know it, as I do well enough, having learned it in

other days, the days of Dingaan, Macue future," and he scanned the stone with interest "Yes, yes;

a wonderful life, and a noble death far away But of these matters you

have not asked me, and therefore I may not tell them even if I wished,

nor would you believe if I did It is of your hunting trip that you have

asked me, and my answer is that if you seek your own coo A pool in a dry river-bed; a buffalo bull with the

tip of one horn shattered Yourself and the bull in the pool Saduko,

yonder, also in the pool, and a little half-bred

about upon the bank Then a litter hs and you in it, and the

father of Ma lamely at your side Then a hut and you in it,

and theat your side