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those three princes upon whom the dust had fallen when Zikali, the

prophet, s froh and

over the corpses of these fallen royalties, cut in the Zulu fashion to

free their spirits, which otherwise, as they believed, would haunt the

slayers, and stood in front of Cetewayo

"Siyakubona, Macu out his hand to h I could not find it in ood day"

"I hear that you were leading the A,

sent down to help Ulad that you have escaped

alive Also ht that they , I was general of that regih afterwards we quarrelled Still, I aiven orders that every one of them who remains alive

is to be spared, that they may be officers of a neombe which I

shall raise Do you know, Macui qosa? Oh, you are a great man Had it

not been for the loyalty"--this as spoken with just a tinge of

sarcasm--"of Saduko yonder, you would have won the day for Umbelazi

Well, now that this quarrel is finished, if you will stay with 's army, since

henceforth I shall have a voice in affairs"