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"I see," I answered "I auish the fire If I succeed I ets cool, and if I burn ers it isto Panda"

"O Watcher-by-Night, you have speared the bull in the heart," replied

Maputa, the o

up with Saduko?"

"Say to the King, O Messenger, that I will go up with Saduko because I

pros, and

not for the sake of the cattle, although it is true that if I hear any

of the in ht of ill befalls h name into this business; but that he, on his part,that e?"

"I have it word for word; and may your Spirit be with you, Macuu, which, were I you," Maputa

added reflectively, "I think I should do just at the dawn, since the

Amakoba drink much beer and are heavy sleepers"

Then we took a pinch of snuff together, and he departed at once for

Nodwengu, Panda's Great Place

Fourteen days had gone by, and Saduko and I, with our ragged band of

Ahtacross a broad vale, which was sprinkled with trees like