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About eighteen ain, in the autumn of the

year 1856, I found myself at old Umbezi's kraal, where there seeas-pipe that could be called

a gun Well, as a trader who could not afford to neglect profitable

s to find, there I was

Now, in eighteen s become a little obscured in one's

es, in whom, after all,

one takes only a philosophical and a business interest Therefore I may

perhaps be excused if I had ood many of the

details of what I may call the Mameena affair These, however, came back

to me very vividly when the first person that I met--at some distance

fro a country walk--was

the beautiful Maed

and as lovely as ever, sitting under the shade of a wild fig-tree and

fanning herself with a handful of its leaves

Of course I jureeted her

"Siyakubona [that is, good lad to see you"

"Siyakubona, Ma out all reference toat her: "Is it true that you have a new

husband?"