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For once in e and cursed that nondescript kind

of e that I think he will

not forget Then, realising the futility of swearing at a mere tool, I

went up to the Great House and demanded an audience with Panda himself

Presently the inceku, or household servant, to who that I was to be ad the

enclosure I found the King sitting at the head of the kraal quite alone,

except for a e shield over hireeted me warmly, and I told him my trouble about the oxen, whereon

he sent away the shield-holder, leaving us two together

"Watcher-by-Night," he said, "why do you blame me for these events, when

you know that I am nobody in ht for his inheritance I cannot tell you for certain who

it was that drove away your oxen Still, I aone,

since I believe that if you had attempted to trek to Natal just now you

would have been killed on the road by the Usutu, who believe you to be a