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miles away

Shortly after daas roused from the place where I slept, wrapped

up in some blankets, under a er, who said that the Prince Umbelazi and the white

man, John Dunn, wished to see me I rose and tidied myself as best I

could, since, if I can avoid it, I never like to appear before natives

in a dishevelled condition I re

a veritable giant in thatquite unearthly about his appearance as

he arose out of those rolling vapours, such light as there was being

concentrated upon the blade of his big spear, which ell known as

the broadest carried by any warrior in Zululand, and a copper torque he

wore about his throat

There he stood, rolling his eyes and hugging his kaross around hi in his anxious, indeterminate

expression told er Just behind hi, his arround, looking, to enius, stood the stately and graceful Saduko

On his left was a young and sturdy white uessed to be John Dunn, a gentleman whom, as it

chanced, I had never met, while behind were a force of Natal Governuns, and with them a

number of natives, also froais One of these led John Dunn's horse