THE ASHBDKaON GHJARPAtf, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, IBM

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called the white faced cow and gave it mealie leaves which she had brought with her, Then the lads went on witli the cattle, but tho whito faced cow stopped by mother. Sho said that sho would bring it to the kraal when sho came homo. My mother sat down on tho grass and nursed her baby, while 1 played around her and the cow grazed. Presently we saw a woman walking toward us across the plain. She walked like one who is very tired. On her back was a bundle of mats, and she led by the hand a boy of about my own age, but bigger and j stronger than I. Wo waited a long while, } till at last the woman came up to us and sank down on tho veldt, for she was very weary. *We saw by the way her hair was dressed that she was not of our tribe. ; "Greeting to you!" said the woman. I "Greeting!" answered my mother, i "What do you seek?" j "Food and a hut to sleep m," said the j woman. "I have traveled far." j "How are you named, and what is j your people?" asked my mother, j "My name is Unandi; lam the wife of Senzangacona, of the Ziilu tribe," said the woman. Now, there lias been war "between our people and the Zulu people, and S "*|Bn gacona had killed some of our warriors and taken many of our cattle. So when my mother heard the speech of Unandi j she sprang up m anger. "You dare to come here and ask for food and shelter, wife of a dog of a Zulu!" she cried; "be gone, or I will call the girls to whip you out of our country." The woman, who was very handsome, waited till my mother had finished her angry words, then looked up and spoke slowly: "There is a cow by you with milk dropping from its udder; will you not even give me and my boy a gourd of milk?" and she took a gourd from her bundle and held it toward us. "1 will not," said my mother. "We are thirsty with long travel; will you not, then, give us a cup of water? We have found none for many hours." "I will not, wife of a dog; go seek wa | ter for yourself!" The woman's eyes filled with tears, but the boy folded his arms on his breast and scowled. He waa a very handsome boy, with bright black eyes; but when he scowled his eyes were like the sky before a thunderstorm. "Mother," he said, "we are not want- I ed here any more than we were wanted I yonder," and he nodded toward the country where the Zulu people lived. "Let us be going to Dingiswayo; the Unatetwa people will protect us." "Yes; let us be going, my son," Baid Unandi, "but the way is long; we are weary and shall fall by the way." I heard, and something pulled at my heart. I was sorry for the woman and the boy, they looked so tired. Then, without Baying anything to my mother, I snatched the gourd and ran with it to a little donga that was hard by, for I knew that there was a spring of water. Presently I came back with the gourd full of water. My mother tried to catch me, for she was very angry; but I ran past! her and gave the gourd to the boy. Then my mother ceased trying to inter fere, only she beat the woman with her tongue all the while, saying that evil had come to our kraals from her hus band, and sho felt m her heart that more evil would come upon us from her son. Her Ehlose (guardian spirit) told her so. Ah! my father, her Ehlose told her true. While my mother talked, 1 and the cow with tho white face stood still and watched, and the baby Baleka cried aloud. The boy, Unandi's eon, having taken the gourd, did not offer the water to his mother. He drank two-thirds of it himself; I think he wonld have drank it all had not his thirst been slaked, but when he had dono he gave what was left to his mother, and she finished it. Then he took the gourd again and came forward, holding it m one hand; m tho other he had a short stick. "What is your name, boy?" he said to me. "Mopo is my name," I answered. "And what is the name of your peo ple?" I told him the name of my tribe, the Langeni tribe. "Very well, Mopo; now I will tell you my name. My name is Chaka, son of Senzangacona, and my people are called the Amazulu. And now I will tell you something more. lam little today, and my people are a little people. But 1 shall grow big, and my people shall grow big with me. They shall eat up the whole world. And when lam big and my people are big and we have stamped the earth fiat as far as men can travel, then I will remember your tribe—the tribe of the Langeni, who would not give me and my mother a cup of milk when we were weary. You see this gourd; for every drop it will hold the blood of a man shall flow—the blood of one of your men. But because you gave me the water I will spare you, and you only, and make you great under me. You alone I will never harm. That 1 swear. But for that woman," and he' pointed to my mother, "let her make haste and die, so that I do not have to teach her what a long time death can take to come. I have spoken," My mother stood still awhile. Then she gasped out: "The little liar! He speaks like a man, does he? The calf lows like a bull. I will teach him an other note—the brat of an evil prophet!" And putting down Baleka she ran at the boy. Chaka stood quite still till she was near; then suddenly he lifted the stick m his hand and hit her so hard on the head that she fell down. After that he laughed, turned and went away with his mother. I went to my mother. Presently she raised herself from the ground and sat up with her hands over her face. The blood from the wound the stick had made ran down her hands on her breast, and I wiped it away with grass. She sat for a long while thus, while the child cried, the cow lowed to be milked and I wiped away the blood with the grass. At last she took her hands away and spoke to me. "Mopo, my son," she said, "I have



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dreamed a dream. 1 dreamed that I saw the boy Cliaka who struck me; ho was grown like a giant. Ho stalked across the mountains and the veldt, nis eyes blazed like tho lightning and m his hand he shook a little assegai that was red with blood. He caught tip people after people m his hands and tore them; he stamped their kraals flat with his feet. Before him was the green of summer; behind him the land was black as when the fires have eaten the grass. I caw our people, Mopo; they were many and fat, their hearts laughed, the men were brave, the girls were fair; I count ed their children by hundreds. I saw them again, Mopo. They were bones, white bones, thousands of bones tumbled together m, a rocky place, and he, Chaka, stood over the bones and laughed till the earth shook. Then, Mopo, I saw you grown a man. You alone were left of our people. You crept up behind the giant Chaka, and with you came others, great men of a royal look. You stabbed him with a little spear and he fell down and grew small again; he fell down and prayed for mercy. But you cried m his i ear a name— the name of Baleka, your sister—and he died. Mopo, let us go home. So he turned and went home. , CHAPTER H. MOPO IS EN TROUBLE, Now I must tell how my mother did what the boy Chaka had told her, and died quickly. For where his stick had struck her on the forehead there came a sore that would not be healed, and m the sore grew an abscess, and the ab- Bcess ate inward till it came to the brain. Then my mother fell down and died, and I cried very much, for I loved her. After that my brothers poisoned the mind of my father, against me and he treated me badly. But Baleka and I loved each other, and she clung to me like a creeper to the only tree m a plain. Now I saw that the witch finders and medicine men were feared m the land, and that all people looked up to them, so that even when they had only a stick m their hands, ten men armed with spears would fly before them. There fore I determined that I would be a witch doctor. So I learned the arts of the medicine men. I made sacrifices and I learned much; for there is wis dom m our magic as well as lies. So things went on till I was twenty years of age. By now I had learned all I could learn of myself, so I joined my self onto the chief medicine man of our tribe, who was named Noma. He was old, had one eye only and was very clever. Of him I learned, but at last he grew jealous of me and set a trap to catch me. As it chanced, a big man of a neighboring tribe had lost some cattle, and came with gifts to Noma praying him to smell them out. Noma tried and could not; his magic failed. Then the headman grew angry and demanded back Ms gifts, but Noma would not give up that which he once had held. The headman said that he would kill Noma; Noma said that he would bewitch the headman. "Peace," I said, for I feared that blood would be shed. "Peace, and let me see if my snake will tell me where the cattle are?" "You are nothing but a boy," answered the headman. "Can a boy have wis dom?" "That shall soon be known," I said, taking the bones m my hand. "Leave the bones alone!" screamed Noma. "We will ask nothing more of our snakes for the good of this son of a dog." "He shall throw the bones," answered the headman. "If you try to stop him I will let sunshine through you with my assegai." Then I threw the bones; my snake stood ■ap. I knew nothing of the raan's cattle, but my spirit was with me, and soon I saw them all, and told him, too, where they were. Now the man was much pleased, and said that if my magic was good, arid he found the cattle, the gift should be taken from Noma and given to me. Noma was very angry. It was a big herd of cattle, and if they were found where I had said, then all men would hold me the greater wizard. Now the headman said that at the first light he would go with me to the spot where my snake said the cattle were. I, too, went into my hut and lay down to sleep. Suddenly I awoke, feeling a weight upon my breast. I tried to start up, but something cold pricked my throat. I fell back again and looked. The door of the hut was open. The moon lay low on the sky, like a ball of fire far away. I could see it through the door, and its light crept into the hut. It fell upon the face of Noma, the ■witch doctor. He was seated across me, glaring at me with his one eye, and m his hand was a knife. It was that which I had felt prick my throat. "You whelp, whom I have bred up, to tear me!" he hissed into my ear. "You dared to divine where I failed, did you?" and he began driving m the knife under my chin. "Mercy, my uncle!" I said. "Have mercy, and I will do whatever you will!" "Will you do this?" he asked, still pricking me with the knife. "Will you get up, go find the dog's cattle and drive them to a certain place and hide them there?" and he named a secret valley that was known to very few. "If you do that I will spare you and give you three of the cows. If you refuse or play me false, then, by my father's spirit, 1 will find a way to kill you!" "Certainly I will do it, my uncle," I answered. "Why did you not trust me before? Had I known that you wanted to keep the cattle I would never have sinelled them out. I only did so, fearing lest you should lose the presents." "You are not so wicked as I thought," he growled. "Get up, then, and do my bidding. You can be back here m two hours after dawn." So I got up, thinking all the while if I should try to spring on him. But I was without arms, and he had the knife; also, if perchance I had prevailed and killed him it would have been thought that I had murdered him, and I should have tasted the assegai. So I made another » (To be Continued).-