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Then, seeing that the ent and that it was a question of my

life or theirs, I caun loaded e used

to call "loopers," or BB shot, of which but a feent to each charge,

for I had hoped to meet with a small buck on un and fired, the right barrel at

one of the in each case at the

centre of the s shields, which from force of habit they held

stretched out to protect their throats and breasts At that distance, of

course, the loopers sank through the soft hide of the shields and deep

into the bodies of those who carried them, so that both of the so close that he fell against h and bruising er was over for thethe spurs intobetween the groups of strugglingunharmed at the town, I went instantly to the royal huts and

de, who sent word that I was to be ad before him I told him exactly what had happened--that I had

killed two of Cetewayo's men in order to save my own life, and on that

account submitted reat distress, "I knoell that you

are not to blahting, with coht before