he said . ` For I too have grown weary . There is no man so great as I , therefore I am all alone . Guard thyself ! ' and bending suddenly he seized the hero in his hands and dashed him upon the ground . And lo ! instead of death , Makoma had found life , for he sprang to his feet mightier in strength and stature than before , and rushing in he gripped the giant by the waist and wrestled with him . Hour by hour they fought , and mountains rolled beneath their feet like pebbles in a flood ; now Makoma would break away , and summoning up his strength , strike the giant with Nu-endo his iron hammer , and Sakatirina would pluck up the mountains and hurl them upon the hero , but neither one could slay the other . At last , upon the second day , they grappled so strongly that they could not break away ; but their strength was failing , and , just as the sun was sinking , they fell together to the ground , insensible . In the morning when they awoke , Mulimo the Great Spirit was standing by them ; and he said : ' O Makoma and Sakatirina ! Ye are heroes so great that no man may come against you . Therefore ye will leave the world and take up your home with me in the clouds . ' And as he spake the heroes became invisible to the people of the Earth , and were no more seen among them . The Magic Mirror -LSB- Native Rhodesian Tale . -RSB- From the Senna A long , long while ago , before ever the White Men were seen in Senna , there lived a man called Gopani-Kufa . One day , as he was out hunting , he came upon a strange sight . An enormous python had caught an antelope and coiled itself around it ; the antelope , striking out in despair with its horns , had pinned the python 's neck to a tree , and so deeply had its horns sunk in the soft wood that neither creature could get away . ` Help ! ' cried the antelope , ` for I was doing no harm , yet I have been caught , and would have been eaten , had I not defended myself . ' ` Help me , ' said the python , ` for I am Insato , King of all the Reptiles , and will reward you well ! '
Gopani-Kufa considered for a moment , then stabbing the antelope XXXXX his assegai , he set the python free . '
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