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mind, and strength came back to uf from the food. When we had eaten what we could we rose and washed our selves 1! at the spring; but as we washed Baleka looked up and gave a cry of fear. For there, on the crest of the hill, about ten spear throws away, were a party of six armed men, and these men people of my own tribe—children of my father Makedama —who still pursued us to take fas or slay us. They saw us; they raised a shout and began to run. We too sprang up and ran. Before us the ground was open and eloped down to the banks of the White Umfolozi. We ran for the river. After us came the warriors. Now we neared the banks of the river; it was full and wide. Above us the waters ran angrily, breaking into swirls of white where they passed over sunken rocks; below was a rapid, m which none might live; be tween the two a deep pool, where the water was quiet but the stream strong. "Ah! my brother, what shall we do?" gasped Baleka. "There is this to choose," I answered, "perish on the spears of our people or try the river." "Easier to die by water than on iron," she answered. i "Good!" I said. "Now may our snakes look toward us and. the spirits of our fathers be with us! At the least we can swim," And I led her to the head of the pool. We threw away everything ex cept an assegai—which I held m my teeth.—and plunged m, wading and swim ming, the dog Koos leading the way. Then it was that the soldiers appeared upon the bank. "Ahl little people," one cried, "you swim, do you? Well, yop will drown; and if you do not drown we know a ford, and we will catch you and kill you." And he hurled an asseagi after us, which fell between us. Now we swam hard, for we could swim well. It was just this: If we could reach the bank before we got into the rapids we were safe; if not, then good night! We strained, we struggled. Bajeka was a brave girl, and she swam bravely; but the water pushed her down below me, and I could do nothing to help her. I got my foot upon the rock and looked around. There she was, and eight paces from her the broken water boiled. I could not go back. But the I dog Koos saw. He swam to her bark ing, then turned around heading for the shore. She grasped him by the tail with her right hand. She too struck out with her feet and her left hand, and slowly, very slowly, drew near. Then I stretched out the handle of my assegai toward her. She caught it with her left hand. I pulled and Koos pulled, and we brought her to the bank, and there she fell gasping. [ Now when the soldiers on the other bank saw that we had crossed, they shouted threats at us, then ran away | down the bank. | "Arise, Baleka," I said; "they have gone to seek a ford." "Ah, let me diel" she answered. But I forced her to rise, and we walked on till at last far away, we saw a large kraal. "Keep heart," I said, "See, there is the kraal of Chaka." Presently we came to a path that ran to the kraal from the ford of the Um folozi. We followed the path till at last we were but half an hour's journey from the kraal. Then we looked back, and lo! there behind us were the pursuers. Again we ran, but they gained upon us. Then once more I thought of the dog. I called him and told him what to do. He understood, and flew toward them growling. They tried to kill him with spears and kerries, but he jumped around them, biting at them and kept them back. At last a man hit him, and he sprang up and seized the man by the | throat. There he clung, man and dog rolling over and over together, till the end of it was that they both died to gether. Meanwhile we were but three hundred paces from the gate of the kraal. . "Run on, Baleka, run onl" I said, dropping behind. Now she staggered on toward the kraal. I sat down to get my breath again, for I was about to fight four men. The men were running, two and two, with the length of a spear throw between them. But of the first pair one was five or six paces m front of the other. This man shouted out loud and charged me, shield and spear up. I stood waiting for him till he drew back the spear to stab me. Then suddenly I dropped to my knees and thrust upward with all my strength beneath the rim of his shield; and he also thrust, but over me, his spear only cutting the skin of my shoul der. And my assegai? Ah! it ran j through and through hia middle. He rolled over and over on the plain. 1 was now weaponless, for the haft of my spear—it was but a light throwing asse gai—broke m two, leaving nothing but a little bit of stick m my hand. And the other one was on met He looked tall as a tree above me. I fell onto my hands and knees and flung myself over sideways. My body struck the legs of the man about to stab me, lifting his feet from beneath him. Down he came heavily. Before he had touched the ground I was off it. His spear had fallen from his hand. I stoop ed, seized it, aEd as he rose I stabbed him through the back. In the shake of a leaf he also was dead. Then I ran, for my valor was gone. About a hundred paces from me Baleka was staggering along. By the time I caught her she was some forty paces from the gate of the kraal. But then her powers left her altogether. Yes! there she fell senseless, and I stood by her. And there, too, I should have been slain had not this chanced, for the other two men, having staid one instant by their dead fellows, came on against me mad with wrath. For at that moment the gate of the kraal opened, and through it came a party of soldiers dragging a man by the arms. After them walked a great man, who wore a leopard skin on his shoul ders and was laughing, and with him were five or six ringed councilors, and after them again came a company of warriors. The soldiers saw thatjrilling was go

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ing on and ran up just as tho slayer: reached us. "Who are you?" they cried, "who dare to kill at the gate of the Elephant's kraal? Here the Elephant kills alone f "We are of the children of Makeda ma," they answered, "and we follow these evil doers who have done wicked ness and murder m our kraal. See, but now two of us are dead at their hands, and others lie dead along the road. Suf fer that we ajay them!" "Ask that of the Elephant," said the soldiers; "ask, too, that he Buffer you should not be slain." Just then tho tall chief saw blood and heard words. He stalked up; and a great man he was to see, though still young m years. For he was taller by a head than any around him, and his chest was big as the chests of two; his face was fierce and beautiful, and when ho was angry his eye flashed like a smitten brand. "Who are these who dare to stir up dust at the gates of my kraal?" he asked, frowning. "O Chaka, O Elephant!" answered the captain of the'soldiers, throwing himself to the earth before him, "the j I men say that these are evil doers and that they pursue them to kill them." "Good!" he answered, "Let them slay the evil doers," "0 great chief! thanks be to thee, great chief!" said those who sotight to ( slay us. "I hear you," he answered, then spoke once more to the captain. "And when they have slain the evil doers, let them themselves be blinded and turned loose to seek their way home, because they have dared to lift a spear within the Zulu gates. Now praise on, my chil dren!" and he laughed, while the sol diers murmured, "On! he is wise, he is great, his justice is bright and terrible like the sun!" But the two men cried out m fear, for this they did not seek. "Cut out their tongues also," said Chaka. "What! shall the land of the Zulus suffer such a noise? Never! lest the cattle miscarry. To it, ye black ones! There lies the girl. She is asleep and helpless. Slay her! What! you hesitate! Nay, then, if you will have time for thought, I will give it. Take these men, smear them with honey and pin them over ant heaps; by tomorrow's sun they will know their own minds. But first kill these two hunted jackals," and he pointed to Baleka and myself. ""They seem tired, and doubtless they long for sleep," Then for the first time I spoke, for the soldiers drew near to slay us. "Oh, Chaka," I cried, "I am Mopo, and this is my sister, Baleka!" I stopped, and a great shout of laugh ter went up from all who stood around. "Very wall, Mopo, and thy sister, Ba leka," said Chaka grimly. "Good morn ing to you, Mopo, and Baleka also, good night!" "Oh, Chaka!" I broke m, "I am Mopo, son of Makedama, of the Langeni tribo. It was I who gave thee a gourd of wa ter many years ago, when we both were little. Then thou badest me come to thee when thou hadst grown great, vow ing that thou wouldst protect me and never do mo harm. So I have come, bringing my sister with me, and now, 1 pray thee, do not eat up the words of long ago." As I spoke Chaka's face changed, and he listened earnestly, as a man who holds his hand behind his ear. "Those are no lies," he said. "Welcome, Mopo! Thou shalt be a dog m my hut and feed from my hand. But of thy sister I said nothing. Why, then, should she not bo slain when I swore vengeance against all thy tiibe save thee alone?" "Because she is too fair to slay, 0 chief I" I answered boldly; "also because I love her and ask her life as a boon!" "Turn the girl over," said Chaka, and they did so, showing her face. "Again thou speakest no lie, son of Makedama," Baid the chief. "I grant thee the boon. She also shall lie mmy hut and be of the number of my 'sisters.' Now tell me thy tale, speaking only the truth." These, then, my father, were the events that ended m the coming of me, Mopo, and of my sister Baleka to the 1 kraal of Chaka, the Lion of the Zulu. Now you may ask why I have kept you co long with this tale, which is as are other tales of our people. But that shall j be seen, for from these matters, as a tree from a seed, grew the birth of TJmslopo gaas Bulalio, Umslopogaas the Slaugh terer and Nada the Beautiful, of whose love my story has to tell. For Nada was my daughter, and Umslopogaas, though few knew it, was none other than the son of Chaka, born of my sister Baleka. Now when Baleka recovered from the weariness of our flight and her beau ty came back to her, Chaka took her to wife, numbering her among his women, whom he named his "sisters." And me Chaka took to be one of his doctors, of his inyanga of medicine, and he was so well pleased with my medicine that m the end I became his head doctor. Now this was a great post, m which, during the course of years, I grew fat m cattle and m wives; but also it was one of much danger. For when I rose strong and well m the morning; I could never know but that at night I should sleep stiff and red. Many were the doctors whom Chaka slew; doctored they never so well, they were slain at last. For a day would surely come when the king felt ill m his body or heavy m his mind, and then to the assegai or the torment with the wizard who had dootored hinal Yet I escaped, because of the power of my medicine, and also because of that oath which Chaka had sworn to me as a child. So it came about that where the king went, there I went with him. I slept near his hut, I sat behind him at council, m the battle I was ever at his side.

CHAPTER V. THE CHANGING OP THE CHILDREN, This was the rule of the life of Chaka, that he would have no children, though he had many wives. Every child born to him of his "sisters" was slain at once. "What, Mopol" he said to me. "Shall I rear up children to put me to the as-

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