The Ashburton Guardian.

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Asiibduton : Wednesday, September 20, LSO9.

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"NADA, THE LILY."

1 INTRODUCTION. ; Some years since—it was during the winter before the Zulu war—a white man was traveling through Natal. His name does not matter, for he plays no part m this story. All \? ent well till he I had passed the little town of Stanger, which was once the sito of Duguza, the kraal of Chaka, the first Zulu king. The night after he left Stanger the ail turned bitterly cold. Heavy gray clouds filled the sky and hid the light of th« ptars. "Now if I were not in^Natal 1 should say that there was a heavy fall of snow coming," said tho white man to himself. "I have often seen the «ky look like that m Scotland before snow." Then he reflected that there had been no deep snow m Natal for years. During the night he was awakened by a sense of bitter cold and the low moan ing of the oxen that were tied to the trek-tow. He thrust his head through the curtain of the tent and looked out. The earth was white with snow and the air was full of it, swept along by a bit ter wind. Now he sprang up, callvng as be did BO to the Kaffirs who slept beneath the wagons. ; **Quick! you boys," he said to them m Zulu; "quick! Would you see the cattle die of the snow and cold? Loose the oxen from the trek-tows and drive them m between the wagons; that will give them some shelter." And lighting a lantern he sprang out into the snow. At last it was done—no easy task, for the numbed hands of Che Kaffirs could scarcely loosen the frozen reins. The wagons were outspanned side by side with a space between them, and into this space the mob of thirty-six oxen was driven and there secured by reins tied crosswise from the front and hind wheels of the wagons. Then the white man crept back to his bed, and the shiv ering natives, fortified with gin, or squareface, as it is called locally, took refuge ou the second wagon, drawing a tent sail over them. "If the snow goes on I shall lose my oxen," he said to himself; "they can never bear this cold." Hardly had the words passed his lips when the wagon shook; there was a sound of breaking reins and trampling hoofs. Once more he looked forth. The oxen had "skrecked" m a mob, running away to find shelter from the cold.

Such search as could be made revealed nothing. The oxen had gone, and their spoor was obliterated by the fresh fallen snow. The white man called a council of his Kaffir servants. "What was to be done?" he asked. Then a Zulu spoke, who was the driver of the first wagon. "My father," he said to the white man, "this is my word: The oxen are lost m the snow. No man knows whith er they have gone, or whether they live or are now but hides and bones. Yet at the kraal yonder," and he pointed to some huts about two miles away on the hillside, "lives a witch doctor named Zweete. He is old—very old—but he has wisdom, and he can tell you where the oxen are if any man may, my fa ther." "Stuff!" said the white man. "Still, as the kraal cannot be colder than this wagon, we will go and ask Zweete. An hour later he stood m the hut of Zweete. Before him was a very ancient man, a mere bag of bones, with sight less eyes, and with one hand—his left white and shriveled. "What do you eeek of Zweete, my white father?" asked the old man m a thin voice. "You do not believe mmc and my wisdom; why should I help you? Yet I will do it, though it is against your law, and you do wrong to ask me. Yes, to show you there is truth m us Zulu doctors, I will help you. My father, I know what you seek. You seek to know where your oxen have run for shelter from the cold! Is it not so?" "It is so, doctor," answered the white man. "You have long ears." i "Yes, my white father, I have long ears, and yet they say I grow deaf. I have keen eyes also, yet I cannot see your face. Let me hearken. Let me look." For awhile he sat silent, rocking to and fro; then he spoke: "You have a farm, white man, down near Pine Town, is it not? Ah! I thought so. And an hour's ride from your farm lives a Boer with four fingers only on his right hand. There is a kloof on the Boer's farm where grow mimosa trees. There, m the kloof, you shall find your oxen—yes, five days' journey from here you shall find them all. I say all, my father, ex cept three only—the big black Afri cander ox, the little red Zulu ox with one horn and the speckled ox. These you shall not find, for they have died m the snow. Send and you shall find the others. No, no! I ask no fee. Ido not

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work wonders for reward. Why should I? lam rich." And now the white man scoffed. But m the end 1, so great is the power of superstition, he sent. And here it may be stated that on the eleventh day of his sojourn at the kraal of Zweete those whom he sent returned with the oxen, except the three only. After that he scoffed no more. Those eleven days he spent m a hut of the old man's kraal, and every afternoon he came and talked with him, sitting far into the night. On the third day he asked Zweete how it was that his left hand was white and shriveled, and who were Umslopogaas, and Nada, of whom he had let fall some words. Then the old man told him the tale that is set out here. Or, m truth, he acted rather than told his story. Was the death of a warrior m question, he stabbed with his stick, showing how the blow fell and where; did the story grow sorrowful, he groaned, or even wept. Moreover, he had many voices, one for each of the actors m his tale. This man, ancient and withered, seemed to live again m the far past. It was the past that spoke to -his listener, telling of deeds long forgotten, of deeds that are no more known.

CHAPTER L THE BOY CIIAKA PROPHESIES. You ask me, my father, to tell you the tale of Umslopogaas, who was named Bulalio the Slaughterer, and of his love for Nada, the most beautiful of Zulu women. It is long, but if I live to tell it, it shall bo told. You think that I am an old, old witch doctor named Zweete. So all men have thought for many years; but that is not my name. None have known it, and though 1 now live under the law of the white man, and the Great Queen is my chieftainess, an assegai yet might find this heart did any know my name. Look on this hand, my father —no, not that which is withered with lire; look !on this right hand of mine. You see it, though 1 who am blind cannot. But still, within me 1 see it as once it was. Aye! I see it red and strong, red with the blood of two kings. Hearken, my fath er; bend your ear to me and hearken. 1 am Mopo—ah I 1 felt you start; you start as the regiment of the Bees started when Mopo walked before their ranks, and from the assegai m his hand the blood of Chaka dropped slowly to the earth,. [Chaka, the Zulu Napoleon, was one the greatest geniuses and most wicked men who ever lived. He was killed m the year 1838, having slaugh tered more than a million human beings.] lam Mopo who slew Chaka the king. I slew-him withDingaan and Umhlangana the princes; but the wound was mine that his life crept out of, and but for me he would never have been slain. I slew him with the princes, but Dingaan I and one other slew alone. "What do you say? Dingaan died by the Tongola?" Yes, yes, he died, but not there. He died on the Ghost mountain. He lies on the breast of the old Stone Witch, who sits aloft forever waiting for the world to perish. But I, I also was on the Ghost mountain. In those days my feet still could travel fast, and vengeance would not let me sleep. I traveled by day, and by night I found him. I and another, we killed him—ah! ah! Why do I tell you this? What has it to do with the loves of Umslopogaas and Nada the Lily? I will tell you. I slew Chaka for the sake of my sister, Baleka, the mother of Umslopogaas. I and Ura slopogaas slew Dingaan for the sake of Nada, who was my daughter. Yonder, beneath us, at the burying place of kings, there is a hole. In that hole lie the bones of Chaka, the king who died for Baleka. Far away m Zulnland there is a cleft upon the Ghost moun tain. At the foot of that cleft lie the bones of Dingaan, the king who died for Nada. How dd am I? Nay, I know not. Very, very old. Had Chaka lived he would have been as old as I. [This would have made him nearly a hundred years old, an age rarely attained by a native. The writer remembers talking to an aged Zulu woman, however, who told him that she was married when Chaka was king.] None are living whom I knew when I was a boy. lam so old that I must hasten. The grass withers and the winter comes. Yes, while I speak the winter nips my heart. Before the Zulus were a people—for I will begin at the beginning—l was born of the Langeni tribe. We were not a large tribe. Afterward all our able bodied men numbered one full regiment m Chaka's army [the full Zulu regiment would number between two and three thousand men; probably Mopo's tribe consisted of about nine thousand souls]; but the men were brave. Now they are all dead. That people is no more. How it went I will tell you by and by. Our tribe lived m a beautiful open country. The Boers, whom we called the Amaboona, are there now, they tell me. My father, Makedama, was chief of the tribe, and his kraal was built on the crest of a jjtfll; but I was not the son of his chief wite. One evening, when 1 was still little, standing as high as a man's elbow only, I went out with my mother below the cattle kraal to see the cows driven m. My mother was very fond of these cows, and there was one with a white face that would follow her about. She carried my little sister Ba leka riding on her hip. Baleka was a baby then. We walked till we met the : lads driving m tho cows. My mother

Then the old man told him the tale that is set out here.





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