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with us the cattle and our wounded Thus encumbered it was a most

toilsome march, and an anxious one also, for it was always possible that

the reht attempt pursuit This, however, they

did not do, for very many of them were dead or wounded, and those who

remained had no heart left in them They went back to their mountain

home and lived there in shame and wretchedness, for I do not believe

there were fifty head of cattle left a the tribe, and Kafirs without

cattle are nothing Still, they did not starve, since there were plenty

of women to work the fields, and we had not touched their corn The

end of theave them to their conqueror, Saduko, and he

incorporated thewane But that did not happen until soons the captured beasts were

counted were found to nu aniht, which we killed for beef It was a noble prize, truly, and,

notwithstanding the wound in his thigh, which hurt hiood deal now

that it had stiffened, Saduko stood up and surveyed the

eyes No wonder, for he who had been so poor was now rich, and would

remain so even after he had paid over whatever number of cows Umbezi