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"Quite so," I answered "I see that you have gathered theu at the risk of their own lives?"

"We do, white Inkoosi," came the deep-throated answer froe you, Saduko, to be their chief?"

"We do," again came the answer Then a spokes thee of Saduko, or even younger

"O Watcher-by-Night," he said, "I am Tshoza, the brother of Matiwane,

Saduko's father, the only one of his brothers that escaped the slaughter

on the night of the Great Killing Is it not so?"

"It is so," exclaie Saduko as my chief, and so do we all," went on Tshoza

"So do we all," echoed the ranks

"Since Matiwane died we have lived as we could, O Macu the rocks, without cattle, often without a hut to shelter

us; here one, there one Still, we have lived, awaiting the hour of

vengeance upon Bangu, that hour which Zikali the Wise, who is of our

blood, has promised to us Noe believe that it has come, and one and

all, froathered at the