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So they repeated the words, speaking with one voice

"Your answer, O Macu, I have told you that I will go--though I do not like war--and I

will keep my promise," I replied

"Then make ready, Macuions and handed them over to the care of soe of them Also Scowl and I saddled our

horses, for this faithful fellow insisted upon accoot out our rifles and as much

ammunition as we could possibly need, and with thes done, we rode back to the gathering-place,

taking farewell of the wagons with a sad heart, since I, for one, never

expected to see theiment of the Ae or over, nearly four thousand strong,

was round, where they stood coht they were, with their white

fighting-shields, their glea spears, their otter-skin caps, their

kilts and arret plumes

which they wore upon their brows We rode to the head of thereeted me with a cheer of welcome, for

in those days a white man was a power in the land Moreover, as I have

said, the Zulus knew and liked me well Also the fact that I was to

watch, or perchance to fight with theood heart into the

Amawombe

There we stood until the lads, several hundreds of the vessels and drove the cattle that were to be