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To this proposition I agreed cordially, since, to tell the truth, if I

could have race, I should have been

out of that hut long before Ma on the

condition of Zululand and the dangers that lay ahead for all ere

connected with the royal House--a state of affairs which troubled Nandie

much, for she was a clear-headed woman, and one who feared the future

"Ah! Macumazahn," she said to me as we parted, "I would that I were the

wife of soreat, and that no royal

blood ran in my veins"

On the next day the Prince Umbelazi arrived, and with him Saduko and

a few other notable men They cah Scowl, my servant, toldwith soldiers of the Isigqosa

party If I rehtly, the excuse for the visit was that Umbezi

had some of a certain rare breed of white cattle whereof the prince

wished to secure young bulls and heifers to improve his herd

Once inside the kraal, however, Umbelazi, as a very open-natured

h,