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listened to indifferently

After this an

Rising to his feet, Cetewayo addressed Panda

"My father," he said, "the land wanders and wanders in darkness, and you

alone can give light for its feet I and my brother, Ureat one, namely, as to which of us is

to sit in your place when you are 'gone doe call and you

do not answer Some of the nation favour one of us and so, and you alone, have the voice of judgment

Still, before you speak, I and those who stand withthis

to your mind My mother, Umqumbazi, is your Inkosikazi, your head-wife,

and therefore, according to our law, I, her eldest son, should be your

heir Moreover, when you fled to the Boers before the fall of hiaan], did not they, the white Ast your sons was your heir, and did you not point

me out to the white men? And thereon did not the A to be? But now of late thein your ear, as have others"--and he

looked at Saduko and sorown cold towards me, so cold thatafter you and stamp on my name If this is so, my

father, tell me at once, that I may knohat to do"