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"How many men are there in the town?" I asked

"About seven hundred who carry spears," they answered, "together with

others in outlying kraals Moreover, watchateways in the walls"

"And where are the cattle?" I asked again

"Here, in the valley beneath, Macumazahn," answered the spokes Fifty ht--two thousand head of theet round these cattle and drive theht not be difficult," interrupted Saduko, "but I cau, as well as to seize his cattle, since with hiood," I answered; "but that mountain cannot be stormed with three

hundred men, fortified as it is alls and schanzes Our band would

be destroyed before ever we ca to the

sentries who are set everywhere, it would be iotten the dogs, Saduko Moreover, even if it

were possible, I will have nothing to do with the massacre of women and

children, which must happen in an assault Now, listen to u alone, and this coht send

fifty of our uides, down to yonder

bush, where they will lie hid Then, after moonrise, when all are

asleep, these fiftyany whothe herd out through

yonder great pass by which we have entered the land Bangu and his