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"It is true, O Lion," he said, "that Mameena spread the poison upon my

child's mat It is true that she set the deadly chars she did, not knohat she did, and it was

I who instructed her to do the I

have always loved Mameena as I have loved no other woman and as no other

woman was ever loved But while I ith Macuu, chief of the Amakoba, he who had killed my

father, Uave

to the vultures the other day because he had lied as to the death of

Uainst her will, to marry Masapo

the Boar, who afterwards was executed for wizardry Now, here at your

feast, when you reviewed the people of the Zulus, O King, after you had

given ain and loved each

other ht wo: "'I have a husband, who, if he is not dear to me, still is my husband,

and while he lives to hi, I took counsel

with the evil in my heart, and made a plot in myself to be rid of the