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I proffered hi that the

King would like ive it to him myself Now I understood that this

was a summons to an audience, and asked when it would please Panda

to receive me and "the-little-black-stones-that-onders" He

answered--at once

So we started, and within an hour I stood, or rather sat, before Panda

Like all his fa was an enormous man, but, unlike Chaka and

those of his brothers whom I had known, one of a kindly countenance

I saluted hi my cap, and took my place upon a wooden stool

that had been provided for reat hut, in the shadow of

which he sat within his isi-gohlo, or private enclosure

"Greeting, O Maculad to see you safe and well,

for I understand that you have been engaged upon a perilous adventure

since last we ," I answered; "but to which adventure do you refer--that

of the buffalo, when Saduko helped me, or that of the Amakoba, when I

helped Saduko?"

"The latter, Macumazahn, of which I desire to hear all the story"

So I told it to hi alone, for he com

"Wow!" he said, when I had finished, "you are clever as a baboon,