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A whole year had gone by, in which I did, or tried to do, various things

that have no connection with this story, when once more I found

myself in Zululand--at Umbezi's kraal indeed Hither I had trekked in

fulfilain, already alluded to, that was concerned

with ivory and guns, which I had made with the old fellow, or, rather,

with Masapo, his son-in-lahom he represented in this ain I do not enter, since at the

moment I cannot recall whether I ever obtained the necessary perh now that I a to sell weapons to

natives that may be put to all sorts of unforeseen uses

At any rate, there I was, sitting alone with the Head a draiven to him, for the

"trade" was finished to our mutual satisfaction, and Scowl, my body

servant, with the hunters, had just carried off the ivory--a fine lot of

tusks--to ons

"Well, Umbezi," I said, "and how has it fared with you since we parted a

year ago? Have you seen anything of Saduko, who, you may remember, left

you in so of that wildhis fat old head in a fashion

which showed great anxiety "Yet I have heard of hie the other day to tell otten what he owed