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NextI akened shortly after sunrise by Scohoht before to look for a lost ox

"Well, have you found the ox?" I asked

"Yes, Baas; but I did not waken you to tell you that I have a e

for you, Baas, froo upon the plain yonder"

I bade him set it out

"These were the words of Mameena, Baas: 'Say to Macumazahn, your master,

that Indhlovu-ene-sihlonti, taking pity onme

with his heart, has offered to take me into his House and that I have

accepted his offer, since I think it better to become the Inkosazana of

the Zulus, as I shall one day, than to remain a servant in the house

of Nandie Say to Macumazahn that when Saduko returns he is to tell him

that this is all his fault, since if he had kept Nandie in her place I

would have died rather than leave hih from henceforth we can be no more than friends, my heart is

still tender towards hireatness, so that it row into a tree that shall shade

the land Let Macury with ood, as he would have found no happiness while Nandie

and I dwelt in one house Above all, also let hiry with the