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So in truth he did, for before his spear pierced it his heart was

broken

Now, seeing that Ceteas in one of his soft h I had fought against hiood opportunity to ask his leave to

depart To tell the truth, h, and I longed to be away frohts and sounds of that

terrible battlefield, on and about which so many thousand people had

perished this fateful day, as I had seldo uphappened which causeda noise behind me, I looked round, to see a stoutin one hand a gory spear and in the

other a head-plu out: "Giveto the

Prince I have a tale to tell to the conqueror, Cetewayo"

I stared I rubbed my eyes It could not be--yes, it was--Umbezi,

"Eater-up-of-Elephants," the father of Ma for leave to approach, he had bounded through the line

of dead princes, stopping to kick one of them on the head and address

his poor clay in so about

before Cetewayo, shouting his praises

"Who is this urowled the Prince "Bid