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Nor was this all, for the figure rapped in a woman's hair, which I

knew at once for that of Ma blue beads she used to wear about her throat

Sos had happened to me

that need not be recorded here, when one day I found myself in a rather

remote part of the Umvoti district of Natal, some miles to the east of a

one to carry out a

big deal in ood bit of money

That has always been ht ons, which were overloaded with these confounded

weevilly ot stuck in the drift of a sela that most inopportunely had coet the rain

that soaked

a fire or of obtaining any decent food, so I was about to go to bed

supperless when a flash of lightning showed e kraal situated

upon a hillside about half a mile away, and an idea entered my mind

"Who is the headman of that kraal?" I asked of one of the Kafirs who had