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"No, you are not to blah "But oh!end?

I think that only a river of blood can quench so fierce a fire, and then

which of you will live to reach its bank?"

For a while he looked at Umbelazi, and I saw love and fear in his eye,

for towards him Panda always had more affection than for any of his

other children

"Cetewayo has behaved ill," he said at length; "and before a white man,

ill report the ht

to dictate to e Moreover, I have spoken; nor do I change hout the land that I never change my

word; and the white men know it also, do they not, O Macumazana?"

I answered yes, they did Also, this was true, for, like most weak men,

Panda was very obstinate, and honest, too, in his own fashion

He waved his hand, to show that the subject was ended, then bade

U in "the son of

Matiwane"