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After this speech I marched off, followed by the clamour of Masapo's

furious attendants and the sound of Mahter

"I wonder which of theht to ons

As I approachedinspanned, as I

supposed by the order of Scoho must have heard that there was a row

up at the kraal, and thought it well to be ready to bolt In this I was

mistaken, however, for just then Saduko strolled out of a patch of bush

and said: "I ordered your boys to yoke up the oxen, Inkoosi"

"Have you? That's cool!" I answered "Perhaps you will tell ood trek to the northward before night,

Inkoosi"

"Indeed! I thought that I was heading south-east"

"Bangu does not live in the south or the east," he replied slowly

"Oh, I had alu," I said, with a rather feeble

attehty voice "I never knew before that

Macumazahn was a man who broke a promise to his friend"

"Would you be so kind as to explain yourhis shoulders "Unless ainst Bangu Well, I