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was about to share the fortunes of his fight for the throne, he who said

that his heart was still on fire for the woman whom "Umbelazi the thief"

had stolen Well, if I were Uht I to myself, I would

rather that Saduko were not eneral But, thank

Heaven! I was not Umbelazi, or Saduko, or any of thein my trek from Zululand on the morrow!

Man proposes but God disposes I did not trek froons it was to find that my oxen had

mysteriously disappeared froraze They were lost; or perhaps they had felt the urgent need of

trekking from Zululand back to a more peaceful country I sent all the

hunters I had with ons, which in those disturbed tiuarded

Four days went by, a ent by, and no sign of either hunters or

oxen Then at last a e, which reached me in some roundabout

fashion, to the effect that the hunters had found the oxen a long way

off, but on trying to return to Nodwengu had been driven by some of

the Usutu--that is, by Cetewayo's party--across the Tugela into Natal,

whence they dared not attempt to return