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"Dog," said the Prince, "where is your assegai?" And as he spoke he

threw it from him into the river beneath, for he had picked it up while

we struggled, but, as I noted, retained his own "Now, dog, why do I not

kill you, as would have been easy but noill tell you Because I

will not mix the blood of a traitor with my own See!" He set the haft

of his broad spear upon the rock and bent forward over the blade "You

and your witch-wife have brought , O Saduko My blood, and

the blood of all who clung to me, is on your head Your name shall

stink for ever in the nostrils of all true men, and I whom you have

betrayed--I, the Prince Umbelazi--will haunt you while you live; yes,

my spirit shall enter into you, and when you die--ah! then we'll ain Tell this tale to the white s"