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'•'Did she weep when you took the babe ( from her?" "Nay, she wept not. She said, 'My lord's will is my will.'" "Good! Had she wept she had been slain also. Who was with her?" | "The Mother of the Heavens." The brow of Chaka darkened. "Unan di, my mother, what did she there? By myself I swear, though she is my mother, if I thought"— and he ceased. There was a Bilence, then he spoke again. "Say, what is m that mat?" and he pointed with hia little assegai at the bundle on my shoulders. "Medicine, king." "Thon dost carry enough to docter an impi. Undo the mat and let me look at it." Now, if I undid the mat I feared he must see the child and then "It is tagati—it is bewitched, O king. It is not well to look on medicine." "Openl" he answered angrily. "Whatl may I not look at that which I am forced to swallow—l, who am the first of doc tors?" "Death is the king's medicine," I an swered, lifting the bundle and laying it as far from him m the shadow of the fence as I dared. Then I bent over it, slowly undoing the rimpis with which it was tied, while the sweat of terror ran down my face. Inside were the brown leaves and roots of medicine; beneath them was the senseless babe wrapped m dead moss. "Ugly stuff!" said the king, taking snuff. "And now begonei Take my advice; kill thy children, as I kill mine, lest they live to worry thee." I did up the bundle fast, saluted the king and passed from before him. Scarcely was I outside when the babe began to squeak m the bundle. If it had been one minute before I "What," said a soldier as passed, "have you got a puppy hidden under your moocha (girdle composed of skin and tails of oxen), Mopo?" I made no answer, but hurried on to my huts. "I have recovered the child, women." I said. Anadi took him and looked at him. "The boy seems bigger than he was," she said. "The breath of life has come into him and puffed him out," I answered. "His eyes are not as his eyes were," she said again. "Now they are big and black, like the eyes of the king." "My spirit looked upon his eyes and made them beautiful," I answered. "This child has a birthmark on his thigh," Bhe said a third time. "That which I gave you had no mark." "I laid my medicine there," I an swered. "It is not the same child," she said sullenly. "It is a foundling, who will lay ill luck at onr doors." "Peace, witch!" I cried. "How dare you to speak thus from a lying heart? Do you wish to draw down a curse upon our root? Would you make us all food for the king's spear? Say such words again and you shall sit within the circle —the Ingomboco shall know you for a witch 1" So I stormed on, till at length she fell | at my feet praying for mercy. CHAPTER VI. THE INGQMBOCO.

Now the years went on and this mat ter slept. Nothing more was heard of it, but still it only slept; and, my father, I feared greatly for the hour when it should awake. For the secret was known by two women —Unandi, Mother of the Heavens, and Balcka, my sister, wife of the king; and by two more— Macropha and Anadi, my wives—it was guessed at, How, then, should it re main a secret forever? Moreover, this came about, that Unandi and Baleka could not restrain their fondness for that child who was called my son and named Umslopogaas, but who was the son of Chaka, the king, and of Baleka, and the grandson of Unandi. So ifc hap pened that very often one or the other of them would come into my hut, mak ing pretense to visit my wives, and take the boy upon her lap and fondle it. In vain did I pray them to forbear. Love pulled at their heartstrings more heavily than my words, and still they came. This was the end of it—that Chaka saw the child sitting on the knee of Unandi, his mother. "What does my mother with that brat of thine, Mopo?" he asked of me. "Can not she kiss me, if she will find a child to kiss?" Afld he laughed like a wolf. I said that I did not know, and the matter passed oTer for awhile. But after that Chaka caused his mother to be watched. Now the boy Umslopogaas grew great and strong; there was no such lad of his years for a day's journey around. But from a babe he was some what surly, of few words and, like his father, Chaka, afraid of nothing. In all the world there were but two people whom he loved; these were I, Mopo, who was called his father, and Nad,#, she who was said to be his twin sister. Now of Nada it must be told that as the boy Umslopogaas was the strongest ' and bravest of children, so the girl Nada was the gentlest and the most fair. Of a truth, my father, 1 believe that her blood was not all Zulu, though this I cannot say for certain. At the least, her eyes were softer and larger than those of our people, her hair longer and, less tightly curled, and her skin was' tighter—more of the color of pure cop per. These things she had from her

mother, Macropha; tliougii she was fairer than Macropha—fairer indeed than any woman of my people that 1 have seen. Of her mother, Macropha, there is thiu to tell: She was of Swazi blood, and was brought to the king's kraal with captives after a raid and given to me as a wife by the king. It was said that she was the daughter of a Swazi headman of the tribe of the Hal lakazi, and that she was born of his wife is true, but whether he was her father I do not know; for I have heard from the lips of Macropha herself that before she was born there was a white man staying at her father's kraal. He was a Portuguese from the coast, a handsome man, and skilled m the work ing of iron. The white man loved the mother of my wife, Macropha, and some held that Macropha was his daughter, and not that of the Swazi headman. At least 1 know this, that before my wife's birth the Swazi killed the white man, saying that he had "plowed with his heifer." But none can tell the truth of these matters, and I only speak of them be cause the beauty of Nada was rather as the beauty of the white people than ours, and this well might be so if her grandfather were a white man. Now Umslopogaas and Nada were al ways together. Together they ate, to gether they slept and wandered; they thought one thought and spoke with one tongue. Out it was pretty to see theml Twice while they were children did Umslopogaas save the life of Nada. * * * After this there was quiet , till the Feast of the First Fruits was ] ended. But few people were slain at this feast, though there was a great In- i gomboco, or witch hunt, and many were smelled out by the witch doctors at work ing magic against the king. Now m Zululand the whole people cowered be fore the witch doctors. No man knew but that on the morrow he would be touched by the wand of an Isanusi, as we named finder of witches, and led away to his death. For awhile Chaka said nothing, and so long as the doctors smelled out those only whom he wished to slay, he was well pleased. But when they began to do those to death whom he did not desire to kill, he grew angry. Yet the custom of the land was that he whom the witch doctors touched must die, he and all his house; therefore the king scarcely dared to save even those whom he loved. One night I came to doctor him, for he was sick m his mind. On that very day there had been an In gomboco, and five of the bravest cap tains of the army had been smelled out by the Abangoma, the witch finders, to gether with many others. All had been slain, and men had been sent to kill the wives and children of the dead. Now, Chaka was sore at heart about this slay ing and opened his breast to me. "It is the witch doctors who rule m Zululand, and not 1, Mopo, son of Make dama," he said to me. "Where, then, is it to end? Shall Ibe smelled out and slain? Tell me, how may I be free of them?' "Those who walk the Bridge of Spears, O king, fall off into the Nowhere," I answered darkly. "Even witch doctors cannot keep a footing on that bridge. Has not a witch doctor a heart that can cease to beat? Has he not blood that can be made to flow?" Chaka looked at me strangely. "Thou art a bold man who darest to speak thus to me, Mopo," he said. "Dost thou not know that it is sacrilege to touch an Isanusi?" "Hearken, O king! It is indeed sacri lege to touch a true Isanusi, but what if he smell out falsely, bringing those to death who are innocent of evil? Is it then sacrilege to bring him to that end which he has given to many another? Say, O king!" "Good words!" answered Chaka. "Now tell me, son of Makedama, how may this matter be put to proof?" Then I leaned forward, whispering into the ear of the Black One, and he nodded heavily. Thus I spoke then, because I, too, saw the evil of the Isanusis. One morning thereafter a new thing came to pass m the royal kraal, for the king himself ran out, crying aloud to all people to come and see the evil that had been worked upon him by a wiaard. They came together and saw this. On the doorposts of the gateway of the In tunkulu, the house of the king, were great smears of blood. The knees of men strong m battle trembled when they saw it. Women wailed aloud as they wail over the dead; they wailed because of the horror of the omen. "Who has done this thing?" cried Chaka m a terrible voice. "Who has dared to bewitch the king and to strike blood upon his house?" There was no answer, and Chaka spoke again. "This is no little matter," he said, "to be washed away with the blood of one or two to be forgotten, The man who wrought it shall not die alone or travel with a few to the world of spirits. All his tribe shall go with him, down to the baby m his hut and the cattle m his kraal! Let messengers go out east and west, and north and south, and summon the witch doctors from every quarter! Let them summon the captains from every regiment, and the headmen from every kraall On the tenth day from now the circle of the In gomboco shall be set, and there shall be such a smelling out of wizards and of witches as has not been known m Zulu land!" On the last night before the forming of the Ingomboco the witch doctors, male and female, entered the kraal. There were a hundred and a half a hundred of them, and they were made hideous and terrible with the white bones of men, with bladders of fish and of oxen, with fat of lizards and with skins of snakes. The morning dawned heavily, and be fore it was well light the heralds were out summoning all to the king's Ingom boco. Men came by hundreds, carrying a short stick only—for to be seen armed ( was death—and seated themselves m the f great circle before the gates of the royal j house. They seated themselves; then i around them on the outside of the circle I gathered knots of warriors—chosen men, ; great and fierce—armed with kerriea only. These were the slayers.

"/ did the deed!"

THE ASHBUKTON Gf ABDIAN : MOHDAY, SEPTEMBBK 25, 1899.

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