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When I reached Nodwengu I was taken ill and laid up in ht What my exact sickness was I do not know, for I had

no doctor at hand to tell me, as even thefroue, exposure and excitement, and

complicated with fearful headache--caused, I presume, by the blohich

I received in the battle--were its principal syet better, Scowl and some Zulu friends who came to see

me informed me that the whole land was in a fearful state of disorder,

and that U hunted

out and killed It seeested by some of the

Usutu that I should share their fate, but on this point Panda was firm

Indeed, he appears to have said publicly that whoever lifted a spear

against ainst him, and would be

the cause of a near So the Usutu leftfor a while, and thought it wisest to be

content hat they had won

Indeed, they had won everything, for Ceteas now supreai--and his father but a cipher Although he remained the

"Head" of the nation, Ceteas publicly declared to be its "Feet,"

and strength was in these active "Feet," not in the bowed and sleeping

"Head" In fact, so little poas left to Panda that he could not

protect his own household Thus one day I heard a great tuodhlo, or royal enclosure,