This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.
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32543 | Are there any Caffres about here? |
32543 | But how did those other fathers live? |
32543 | Can you throw an assagy? |
32543 | Did you fight against my men near the Umlass? |
32543 | Do n''t you think the English women who are up there would come away if they could? |
32543 | How did you come by those pistols? |
32543 | I should like to speak about this war,I said;"may I?" |
32543 | Is the account you have given of the shipwreck quite correct? |
32543 | Suppose you fail? |
32543 | Then are the people at war with the Amakosa of your tribe? |
32543 | Then how is it you have escaped? |
32543 | Then you would not like to fight against them? |
32543 | Then,said my uncle,"what do you think of coming into my office, and learning the business which I have followed with tolerable success? |
32543 | Then,said the admiral,"if I sent a ship up there to bring these women away, you do n''t think they would come?" |
32543 | What is your name? |
32543 | When do you expect your men to return? |
32543 | Where are the women now? |
32543 | Where do you come from? |
32543 | Why did they not take you? |
32543 | Why did you not come away in the ship? |
32543 | Why do you not come back to us, and enjoy life? |
32543 | Would you like such a trip? |
32543 | You have no papers, or anything about you, which could prove you are the person you represent yourself to be? |
32543 | You of course remember your father,said the gentleman;"can you describe him to me?" |
32543 | And how have we been delivered? |
32543 | Are there any white men here?" |
32543 | At length a loud voice from inside said,"Is the white boy there?" |
32543 | Calling Cachema he said,"Why did you let this white boy beat you?" |
32543 | Do you white men ever fight one against the other?" |
32543 | I ask you, men, does he not deserve the necklace of leopard''s claws? |
32543 | I at once knew that, in my sailor clothes, they did not recognise me; so I called out in English,"What do you want?" |
32543 | I crept round the circle to where Ebomvu the Rain- maker was sitting, and whispered to him,"What do you think of this?" |
32543 | I said:--"When the white men were assagied some of them had long iron instruments that we call` guns:''where are they?" |
32543 | I whispered to her,"What is it?" |
32543 | Inyati said,"Do you know how to use these things? |
32543 | On Inklanzi replying"Yes,"the chief said,"Where do you come from? |
32543 | On approaching the rocks on which I stood the boat stopped, and a young- looking man at the stern of the leading boat called out--"Who are you?" |
32543 | Shall he not be a young chief? |
32543 | Shall our tribe be termed a tribe of cowards? |
32543 | Should I return to England and become a sort of slave to society, or should I remain in Africa? |
32543 | The Zulus, seeing I was sensible again, called to a chief who was sitting at a distance, and pointed to me attentively, and then said--"Who are you?" |
32543 | The captain looked at me in astonishment and said,"What are you shouting about?" |
32543 | The gentleman, who was old, but tall and erect, looked at me very critically, and then said,"Is your name Julius Peterson?" |
32543 | Turning to Inklanzi the chief said,"Why did you not bring those women?" |
32543 | What can there be in your country to compare with what we have here?" |
32543 | What more pleasant life than this could I lead anywhere? |
32543 | What say you, men?" |
32543 | Why do you go on this expedition?" |
32543 | or is it a fresh moon that is born each month, gets full- grown, and then dies?" |
611 | ''And what if I refuse to go?'' |
611 | ''And where are the hunters?'' |
611 | ''Are you awake, Mr Storekeeper?'' |
611 | ''But in the meantime?'' |
611 | ''But suppose you met with opposition,''the Portugoose persisted,''would the rule hold?'' |
611 | ''But what can he hope to do?'' |
611 | ''Crawfurd, man, d''ye no mind me at Lourenco Marques? |
611 | ''Did you ever come across a great big native parson called Laputa? |
611 | ''Did you ever hear of I.D.B.--illicit diamond broking?'' |
611 | ''Did you hear the drums? |
611 | ''Did you notice the Kaffir who rode with him and carried his saddlebags? |
611 | ''Do you blame a prisoner for trying to escape? |
611 | ''Do you go far?'' |
611 | ''Do you mean to say that you did not kill the Dutchmen, and did not mean to knife me?'' |
611 | ''Do you mind the Sabbath eight years since when you preached in the Free Kirk at Kirkcaple? |
611 | ''Do you take every man that calls into your bedroom, and shut the door?'' |
611 | ''Do you understand Latin?'' |
611 | ''Dogs and fools, would you despise his orders? |
611 | ''Fool, did you think to escape me? |
611 | ''Had the man any news?'' |
611 | ''Has anything happened?'' |
611 | ''Have you been writing to anybody?'' |
611 | ''How big a man is Laputa?'' |
611 | ''How long did this power last?'' |
611 | ''Hullo,''I said,''ish that my black friend? |
611 | ''I will carry the casket through the wars,''he cried,''and if I choose never to open it, who will gainsay me? |
611 | ''If the rising starts to- morrow,''I asked,''have you any of his plans?'' |
611 | ''If you are a Christian, what sort of Christianity is it to deluge the land with blood?'' |
611 | ''If you fight for a great cause,''I said,''why do you let a miscreant like Henriques have a hand in it? |
611 | ''If you have come far you would maybe like a cup?'' |
611 | ''In this kind of country?'' |
611 | ''Is it yourself, Davie?'' |
611 | ''Is the outer door shut?'' |
611 | ''It interests you?'' |
611 | ''Now, how on earth did you find that out? |
611 | ''River?'' |
611 | ''Supposing other Kaffirs hear of it, and come back and make a bridge over the gorge? |
611 | ''The man that lived in Central Asia?'' |
611 | ''Well, when we get there, what happens?'' |
611 | ''Wha called ye partan- face, my bonny man?'' |
611 | ''What about the blesbok?'' |
611 | ''What about the purification you mentioned?'' |
611 | ''What about them?'' |
611 | ''What do you want with me?'' |
611 | ''What have ye gained from the white man?'' |
611 | ''What kind of magic will you spring on us?'' |
611 | ''What makes Laputa come up here to start with? |
611 | ''What river? |
611 | ''What will you take to hold your tongue? |
611 | ''What''s the matter with the place? |
611 | ''Whatever is the matter?'' |
611 | ''Where are the patriots in your following? |
611 | ''Where is Ratitswan?'' |
611 | ''Which side are you on in the next war?'' |
611 | ''Who are you and what do you seek?'' |
611 | ''Who comes?'' |
611 | ''Who do you think is the bigger chief, the Inkulu or Ratitswan? |
611 | ''Who is it?'' |
611 | ''Why the devil do n''t you do the same? |
611 | ''Will you be serious and hear me? |
611 | ''Yes,''the voice said,''you hid the rubies,--and then?'' |
611 | ''You heard my little story? |
611 | ''You heard that too? |
611 | ''You say the scheme is ripe,''I said;''how ripe?'' |
611 | A handy way of getting one''s luggage sent on, eh? |
611 | Aitken?'' |
611 | And after that? |
611 | And you found out everything for yourself? |
611 | Anything more?'' |
611 | But how to get to it? |
611 | But how was I to cross the road? |
611 | But supposing I refuse it? |
611 | But who is to lead, and what are the natives going to rise about?'' |
611 | By the way, how did you manage it? |
611 | Could Arcoll be meditating the same exploit? |
611 | Could I have escaped them? |
611 | Could Laputa''s trackers have got up with me already? |
611 | Did he get near enough to hit you?'' |
611 | Do you accept?'' |
611 | Do you know anything about it? |
611 | Do you know what happened next day? |
611 | Do you know, Mr Crawfurd, you have been on the right trail long before me? |
611 | Do you think you can talk over these surly back- veld fools? |
611 | Drunk? |
611 | For who should I find when I got on board but my old friend Tam Dyke, who was second mate on the vessel? |
611 | God, man, do you think you are going to work a revolution on skim milk? |
611 | Had Laputa a horse?'' |
611 | Hang it all, what are we coming to, when we''re turning into a blooming cargo boat for niggers?'' |
611 | He nodded,''Have you any notion who has been engaged in the job?'' |
611 | He puffed away, and then asked suddenly,''Did you ever hear of Prester John?'' |
611 | I am a Christian, and will you tell me that your civilization pays much attention to Christ? |
611 | I cried,''what in God''s name are you doing in this business? |
611 | I did not know the secret of them, so how should I get out again? |
611 | I heard the voice say''Yes?'' |
611 | Imbecile, do you think my power is built on a trinket? |
611 | It is about Laputa, is n''t it? |
611 | It was their king''s own charger I rode, and who dared question such a warrant? |
611 | Now, what do you think is happening?'' |
611 | Seven years ago? |
611 | Suddenly a hand was laid on my breast, and a voice demanded,''The word?'' |
611 | Supposing I managed to climb up to the level of the roof close to the water, how on earth was I to get outside on to the wall of the ravine? |
611 | Tell me, where have you been?'' |
611 | There must be water somewhere; otherwise how account for the lushness of the vegetation? |
611 | There will be a way in by the back window? |
611 | Very well, what happened? |
611 | What could this strange being want with a fire at half- past eight of an April Sabbath night on the Dyve Burn sands? |
611 | What devil prompted you to steal a horse and go to the cave? |
611 | What do they call you, man? |
611 | What for did ye not send for me? |
611 | What if I can act a part as well as yourself?'' |
611 | What if I can save your life, Mr Storekeeper? |
611 | What if I could not escape? |
611 | What if I shout that through the camp? |
611 | What if we have done that very thing, Davie?'' |
611 | What kind of errand had brought this interloper into our territory? |
611 | What makes you so anxious that Henriques should not betray me?'' |
611 | What part should I play in the great purification? |
611 | What sort of fellow is this Wardlaw? |
611 | What will you do with it?'' |
611 | What will your rising be without the Snake? |
611 | What would hinder Laputa from setting his men to follow me, and seize me before I could get into safety? |
611 | When did you say you saw him at his devil- worship? |
611 | Where is he? |
611 | Where is he?'' |
611 | Where is your house? |
611 | Where on earth was Ntabakaikonjwa? |
611 | Where were the arms, the leader, the discipline? |
611 | Where, by the way, is Mr Peter Japp? |
611 | Why do you think I am here? |
611 | Why does n''t he begin with Zululand?'' |
611 | Why, then, was I so closely watched in the harmless neighbourhood of the store? |
611 | Will he stay, I wonder?'' |
611 | Will the Baas allow me to sleep the night in an outhouse?'' |
611 | Will you not give me leave to be a patriot in turn?'' |
611 | Would they follow you a yard if they suspected you had lost it?'' |
611 | Would you like to hear something of it by way of preparation?'' |
611 | You call yourself a patriot? |
611 | You have n''t forgotten the Dyve Burn, Davie?'' |
611 | You say he landed here? |
611 | You that are educated and have seen the world, what makes you try to put the clock back? |
32559 | And has there been peace in the land? |
32559 | And let them re- take the slaver; eh, Roberts? 32559 And what made you nearly stop away, Hans?" |
32559 | And what of that, Hans? |
32559 | And where will you be, Hans? |
32559 | Are all the men on deck? |
32559 | Are the white men dead? |
32559 | Are they niggers? |
32559 | Are they very shy? |
32559 | Are you certain, Katie? 32559 Bernhard,"exclaimed Hans,"where are the horses?" |
32559 | Better follow the spoor, Hans, I think,replied Victor;"but what does Heinrich say?" |
32559 | But why will she come to us in this ravine? |
32559 | But,inquired Victor,"how are you going to get Katrine away, or her sister?" |
32559 | Can they feel the wind when in the water, and before it blows? |
32559 | Could these also be prisoners? |
32559 | Did they go far, do you think, or would they stop? |
32559 | Did you know who had taken me? |
32559 | Do the people there want much more, then, than we do in the country, that the shops are so well supplied? |
32559 | Do you think it possible they have decided to leave us? |
32559 | Do you think we are strong enough, Piet,inquired Hans,"to meet the Zulus in bush country?" |
32559 | Do you think,inquired Hans,"that the Amakosa Kaffirs fought as bravely when they attacked Graham''s Town as the Zulus have done lately against us?" |
32559 | Has any one else any thing to say? |
32559 | Have you ever seen a man killed before to- day? |
32559 | Have you not heard of our battles with Moselekatse and Dingaan, and how we defeated them? 32559 Have you seen him?" |
32559 | Have you, indeed? |
32559 | How can you do that, Hans? |
32559 | How can you do that? |
32559 | How did this occur, men? |
32559 | How did you manage to return so soon, Bernhard? |
32559 | How is it that you do n''t fear a strong party coming now? |
32559 | How long will it be before we get to the Cape? |
32559 | How many Matabili were there? |
32559 | How many are there? |
32559 | How was that? |
32559 | How? |
32559 | I am ready,said Hans;"is all quiet?" |
32559 | If Victor agrees to this, I will go,said Bernhard;"and the sooner I go the better: first, though, shall we shoot the lion that killed the Kaffir? |
32559 | Is it much bigger than Graham''s Town? |
32559 | Is it the Matabili murderers again, Hans? |
32559 | Is this true, Hans? |
32559 | Katrine,said Hans,"are you ready to go on? |
32559 | Of what? |
32559 | Sterk, will you stay here, and help to guard the hatch? 32559 The Matabili are coming,"exclaimed Katrine,"ten of them: can you fight them?" |
32559 | Then all those Kaffirs are from Natal Bay? |
32559 | Then he escaped? |
32559 | There is more danger with a lion than even with an elephant, and when you have shot a lion, what is he worth? 32559 They have all gone after the spoor that led along the river''s bank, and I do n''t think that was as fresh as this; but need we wait for them? |
32559 | They will be too many for us, Victor, I am afraid; what are we to do now, I wonder? |
32559 | Victor,said Hans,"will you trust me? |
32559 | Was there nothing else that kept you? |
32559 | We can see the spoor of but one horse; on that the women would probably ride;--but where are the men''s footprints? 32559 What are we to do, Hans? |
32559 | What have you? |
32559 | What is Cape Town like? |
32559 | What is it? |
32559 | What is your plan, Hans? |
32559 | What makes this current run down the coast? |
32559 | What more did you see, Hans? |
32559 | What was that fearful noise, Hans? 32559 What weight are the tusks, Hans?" |
32559 | What would they say to this in Cape Town? |
32559 | Where are the other two bull elephants, Hans? |
32559 | Where did you hit him, Hans? |
32559 | Where is Victor? |
32559 | Where is he? |
32559 | Where''s his tail, Hans? |
32559 | Who''s below? |
32559 | Why is it,he asked,"that the ship can not be seen from out boat, though it could from the peak of the island? |
32559 | Will a bull elephant let you cut off the end of his tail when he is alive, Bernhard? 32559 Will you let them come in the boat?" |
32559 | Yes, Hans: are you hurt? |
32559 | Yes, I am ready, Hans, but are the horses fit? |
32559 | Yes,said Hans;"I am a Dutch farmer: why am I made a prisoner like this?" |
32559 | You are not sorry to come back to the country again, Hans? |
32559 | You have not killed all four bull elephants, Hans? |
32559 | You know the call of the grey monkey, Victor? |
32559 | You were once carried off by a lion, were you not, Hans? |
32559 | ` Have you ever seen him before?'' 32559 ` I''m a spy, am I?'' |
32559 | ` Is bullet there?'' 32559 ` Then you''ve killed your buck; and where is it?'' |
32559 | ` What do you want the big gun for?'' 32559 A hunter''s life is happy, and who would not be a hunter? 32559 Ah, Bernhard, what news? |
32559 | And do they not try to exceed each other in their clothes, Hans?" |
32559 | And you saw all this, Hans?" |
32559 | Are the men old or young, Katrine, who are watching them?" |
32559 | Are there more there, do you think? |
32559 | Are there not two hundred more at least coming to help those who are now here? |
32559 | Are you all loaded, men?" |
32559 | Are you ready now?" |
32559 | As he approached he called in the Matabili language,"Where are you?" |
32559 | But Hans, what food have we? |
32559 | But look, Victor, with my glass, and tell me, do my eyes deceive me; is not that white object near that large kraal, a woman''s dress? |
32559 | But what do the men during the day? |
32559 | Can the man be a stray Matabili?" |
32559 | Can you believe it, that Karl Zeitsman has gone down to Cape Town to write in a shop or something, because he wants to make money? |
32559 | Can you believe, Victor, that such men know what life really is?" |
32559 | Can you see a remedy, men?" |
32559 | Can you see more?" |
32559 | Can you tell me, Katrine, where this path leads to?" |
32559 | Cess, who is this riding over the hill? |
32559 | Did you see any spoor to- day, or do you think your elephants had been hunted lately?" |
32559 | Do you see what to do, Hans?" |
32559 | Have I all your promises?" |
32559 | Have you heard any strange sounds since sunset?" |
32559 | Have you never heard of Eus, Pretorius, Retief, or Landman?" |
32559 | He was just getting up from a sleep, and upon seeing me said,--"` Well, where''s the buck? |
32559 | How came you here? |
32559 | How can we escape from these brutal murderers? |
32559 | How could he get there before us?" |
32559 | How did you see him? |
32559 | How far, think you, are we from our people?" |
32559 | How long will you stay here, Hans?" |
32559 | How was it?" |
32559 | However did you come to know of it?" |
32559 | I and my mate ca n''t make certain of hitting at this distance?" |
32559 | I do n''t like to move, as I ca n''t see him: could you bring some lighted branches here?" |
32559 | I have killed in my day more than twenty Kaffirs, principally Amakosa: can these be the men''s ghosts, sent here now to torment me? |
32559 | I heard a shot: did you miss him?'' |
32559 | I wonder was there another man with this one? |
32559 | If we stay here we shall be unable to beat off a hundred men, though we might succeed against half that number; what shall we do?" |
32559 | Is it lower at the Cape than up by Natal?" |
32559 | Is there much game about there?" |
32559 | It was dark, was it not?" |
32559 | It was good to trek from the old colony, friends, was it not?" |
32559 | Knowing that she would not take off his attention unless for a special reason, he called out--"What is it, Katie?" |
32559 | Let me feel, are my powder- horn and bullets here? |
32559 | My poor father was butchered before my eyes, and I lived to see it; but where can these men be? |
32559 | Not a buffalo; you do n''t mean to say that you''ve fired at a buffalo?'' |
32559 | Oh, it is bad for us?" |
32559 | See those springbok, Victor, by the tall acacias there, they scent an enemy, what is it? |
32559 | See you what they will do?" |
32559 | Shall I hoist the signal?" |
32559 | Shall we follow the spoor, Victor, or try and cut off the track?" |
32559 | She has tried her hand at several kinds of things, and has settled Amakosa, Zulus, and all; and what do you think besides, Hans?" |
32559 | So I will leave the lions to you, Hans, and I will go after the elephants; but shall we arrange our shooting laws?" |
32559 | So now, which of you will go? |
32559 | Suddenly addressing Hans, he said--"Why have you come armed and without notice into the country of Moselekatse, when it is war between us?" |
32559 | There is nothing like a free life, Bernhard, is there? |
32559 | There was some hesitation on the part of the captain of the slaver, for no answer was at first returned; but when a second demand,"What ship is that?" |
32559 | Very well; we''ll go along shore, and what then?" |
32559 | Was there other spoor, or were these wanderers?" |
32559 | We must watch, though; shall I or will you take the first watch? |
32559 | Were they bulls or cows?" |
32559 | What are they?" |
32559 | What can he hear now? |
32559 | What can we do?" |
32559 | What do you make her out to be?" |
32559 | What do you propose, Hans?" |
32559 | What does Kangela mean?" |
32559 | What have they there? |
32559 | What have_ you_ done, Hans?" |
32559 | What made you think there was any thing in the ball, Hans?" |
32559 | What more could a man wish for than what he finds here? |
32559 | What say you to this, men?" |
32559 | What shall we do if any men come out?" |
32559 | What was it then? |
32559 | What weapon is this?" |
32559 | What would the Admiral say to us then, if it were found that the slavers had driven us out by a little smoke?" |
32559 | When did elephant break tree?'' |
32559 | When, however, he had completely satisfied his hunger, Bernhard said--"What have you seen and done, Hans? |
32559 | Where are the rest of our party?" |
32559 | Where is he?'' |
32559 | Where is your sister, Kate?" |
32559 | Where shall you go to when you get to the Cape?" |
32559 | Where think you they will be to- morrow?" |
32559 | Which of you will aid me in my work, with your rifles, horses, and skill?" |
32559 | Will you watch first, Victor, and place yourself near this wall of rock? |
32559 | Wo n''t it be better to board them, and shoot them at close quarters? |
32559 | You have been down at the bay for some time, Hofman,"continued Hans;"can you tell us any thing about the large snakes that are there?" |
32559 | You will not mistake your way, will you?" |
32559 | and have all my people escaped?" |
32559 | and is not that Katrine? |
32559 | and why are you so late? |
32559 | did you not hear a trumpet? |
32559 | exclaimed Hans;"why did he not stab the horse instead?" |
32559 | exclaimed the hunters in one voice;"what makes you think there is gold there?" |
32559 | exclaimed the two hunters;"not in killing another Matabili?" |
32559 | he shouted:"Here so,"replied a voice from the summit of the kloof;"is that Bernhard?" |
32559 | is that the lion?" |
32559 | said Victor:"has he escaped?" |
32559 | said the fellow;` and who the d-- l are you?'' |
32559 | said the lieutenant, his opinion of Hans being thereby much enhanced;"then you have had to fight in Africa?" |
32559 | shouted Hans;"where?" |
32559 | shrieked Hans, as he grasped his rifle like a vice;"and Katrine was with him?" |
32559 | the man repeated, as he came nearer, and examined Hans closely,"and how did you escape? |
32559 | was Hans''first thought,"and are we all to be burnt together?" |
32559 | was uttered, one of the crew, who had before spoken to Hans in English, answered,"Portugee ship, Pedro: what you want?" |
32559 | what are they doing?" |
32559 | what will become of her?" |
32925 | And did she make a good_ Inkosikazi_? |
32925 | And what became of the old Mosutu witch- doctor? |
32925 | And why did you leave the Amandebili, Untuswa? |
32925 | BUT WHAT OF NANGEZA? 32925 Bewitch it, I suppose you mean, Untuswa? |
32925 | But whence had it come? 32925 Masuka? |
32925 | Now, although I had the King''s promise, I felt sorely perplexed; for how was I to fulfil its conditions? 32925 Of the King? |
32925 | What became of her? |
32925 | _ Au, Nkose_, who shall put grey hair upon-- a cool brain into-- a young head? 32925 ` And the girl?'' |
32925 | ` And what desire I the most at this moment?'' 32925 ` Are the ghosts of those slain yonder come to life again in this old man?'' |
32925 | ` Are you alive, my father?'' 32925 ` Are you going to move the world, Untuswa?'' |
32925 | ` Are you making_ muti_, father?'' 32925 ` Can I see people at a distance?'' |
32925 | ` Can these do it better, lord, son of Matyobane?'' 32925 ` Did_ I_ tremble, son of Ntelani? |
32925 | ` Do you know what we do with_ abatagati_?'' 32925 ` Do you presume upon the favour I have ever shown you, Untuswa?'' |
32925 | ` Fear? 32925 ` Has the King already granted you the head- ring, Untuswa?'' |
32925 | ` Hast thou been making_ muti_ alone, Masuka?'' 32925 ` Have you beheld enough, warrior of the Amazulu who knows not fear, who dares all things?'' |
32925 | ` Hear you what these say, Masuka?'' 32925 ` How many regiments do they number, son of Ntelani?'' |
32925 | ` If it is only to risk your life, son of Ntelani, do you not risk it daily in the King''s service?'' 32925 ` Is it Matupe?'' |
32925 | ` Is it Nangeza?'' 32925 ` Is it comfortable down there,_ induna_ of the King?'' |
32925 | ` Is the King bewitched himself,''cried the former wildly,` that this dog of a stranger dares lift his tongue against the royal House?'' 32925 ` Is the King satisfied?'' |
32925 | ` Kalipe?'' 32925 ` Of what are your thoughts that they are so heavy, O son of Ntelani?'' |
32925 | ` So thou askest for death, son of Ntelani?'' 32925 ` So, Untuswa, you are a bigger man than your_ induna_?'' |
32925 | ` Trying to escape, is he?'' 32925 ` Was it Shushungani?'' |
32925 | ` Well, Father of the Fire- spirit?'' 32925 ` Well, Untuswa, who art no more a warrior?'' |
32925 | ` Well, what then? 32925 ` Were there two in it?'' |
32925 | ` What of the wounded man?'' 32925 ` What was the condition I named the first time you asked this, son of Ntelani?'' |
32925 | ` What was the condition the King attached to the fulfilment of his promise, Untuswa?'' 32925 ` What, then?'' |
32925 | ` What?'' 32925 ` Where hast thou deposited thy_ muti_, old man?'' |
32925 | ` Where is she, Sitele?'' 32925 ` Who am I, that I should presume to answer such a question, O Great Great One?'' |
32925 | ` Who am I, to keep on filling the King''s ears with words?'' 32925 ` Who has bewitched the soldier of the King? |
32925 | ` Who has taken her, Sitele? 32925 ` Who is the most about the King, O pack of fools?'' |
32925 | ` Why are you alone, Sitele?'' 32925 ` Why not propose that one day I may reign as King?'' |
32925 | ` You can not_ lobola_ for all of us,''said the other girl;` for am I not Ntelani''ssister"?'' |
32925 | `_ Izanusi_?'' 32925 `_ Muti_? |
32925 | An_ isanusi_, and alive? |
32925 | And Umzilikazi, had he not a free and an open hand? |
32925 | And are you not the King''s chief runner? |
32925 | And have I not fought?'' |
32925 | And if anything should go wrong with the King hereafter, who but Gungana was it who had brought this foreign wizard into our camp? |
32925 | And now, Nangeza, who is the sender of the_ lobola_?'' |
32925 | And now, O my father, will you not whisper it in the ear of the King that the son of Ntelani, although but a boy, can fight, can plan?'' |
32925 | And then where would I be? |
32925 | And this one-- does he live?'' |
32925 | And thy voice? |
32925 | Are you prepared to earn it at such a price?'' |
32925 | Are you sufficiently devoid of fear to dare to look into the future?'' |
32925 | But I answered with deference:"` How is it you are all alone here, my father? |
32925 | But beneath? |
32925 | But for thyself, Untuswa-- dost thou utter no word for thine own life?'' |
32925 | But here again, Untuswa, are you not showing yourself, for all your valour, to be but a child? |
32925 | But if any of such talk reached the ears of the King, as, indeed, what did not? |
32925 | But now and again, when I would meet or pass old Masuka, he would mutter:` Why do you not perform what the King requires, son of Ntelani? |
32925 | But tell me, you who are now one of us, do you never long for your own dwellings again, the rocks and the mountains? |
32925 | But what of Nangeza? |
32925 | But where were their women, where their cattle? |
32925 | But-- who are these?'' |
32925 | Can Isilwana do the like?'' |
32925 | Clearly, a blow had felled him, but how was he still alive, how had he escaped being ripped, as is our custom? |
32925 | Cloud? |
32925 | Could it be that he who knew everything had sent men after us to surprise us two together and kill us? |
32925 | Did ever living man feel as I felt,_ Nkose_, as I clung there, realising that never again was I to behold the light of day? |
32925 | Did they run? |
32925 | Did they scream? |
32925 | Do I need it, Untuswa? |
32925 | Do you not also feel a thirst for revenge upon those who have slain your kindred and despoiled your possessions?'' |
32925 | Does he know what he is talking about?" |
32925 | Even my father was jealous of me, and this being so, wherefore should Gungana look upon me with more favourable eyes? |
32925 | Fearest thou nothing, Untuswa?'' |
32925 | For how could I make choice of one or two where all are so perfect?'' |
32925 | For the sun was nearly down, and how should we reach the camp, each by a roundabout way, before it grew dark? |
32925 | Had these vultures been hovering over the scene of the battle in order to drag away our brave dead to glut their own foul and loathsome carcases with? |
32925 | Hast thou no word for the life of thy son?'' |
32925 | Hast thou not been the author of thine own undoing, by having dealings with a woman while thou shouldest have been watching at thy post?'' |
32925 | Hast thou nothing to say?'' |
32925 | Have all men gone away and left their chief?'' |
32925 | Have ye no titles for Untuswa, the would- be King-- the great King of Nowhere?'' |
32925 | How could these miserable beings have entered by that-- still more, how could they get out by it? |
32925 | How did he know my estate? |
32925 | How knew he this thing? |
32925 | How shall I tell what followed? |
32925 | How, then, can you loosen them, perhaps to flee again, Ngubu?'' |
32925 | I cried,` am I not but a thoughtless boy? |
32925 | I cried,` who are ye that think to outstrip the fastest of the King''s runners?'' |
32925 | I desire death no more than any other, yet do I not brave it day by day in the service of the King? |
32925 | If his eyes burned like this while he was weak and wounded, and almost lifeless, what would they be like in the full vigour of health? |
32925 | Is he not a man? |
32925 | Is he not a warrior indeed, covered with blood and wounds, and carrying the King''s"word"? |
32925 | Is it Nkaleni?'' |
32925 | Is it for good or for ill that he is among us?'' |
32925 | Might? |
32925 | Nangeza might go in by herself, pleading some excuse; but I-- how was I to remain out? |
32925 | Now, my father, how could such a thing be?'' |
32925 | Of Cetywayo?" |
32925 | Of what avail was it, since my head- ring was as far distant as ever? |
32925 | Should I tell her of the King''s promise? |
32925 | Since when has Untuswa, the_ umfane_ been made an_ induna_?'' |
32925 | Still, what could it mean? |
32925 | The calf has again returned to the kraal? |
32925 | The dog runs down and catches the buck, but tell me,_ umfane_, who takes the dog to where he may find the buck?'' |
32925 | Their dwellings-- where are they? |
32925 | Then, child as you are, you shall wear the head- ring-- because are you not, after all, my chief runner?'' |
32925 | Thine enemies-- where are they? |
32925 | Think you that the_ Izimu_ are of their tribe?'' |
32925 | This, then, was their stronghold, a cave or some such dark hole, whence we must dislodge them? |
32925 | Thrice had the King put me off, and who had fought his battles more bravely than I-- who had slain more of his enemies in open fight? |
32925 | Uyauhlasela pi- na?'' |
32925 | Value it?" |
32925 | WAS SHE PUT TO DEATH?" |
32925 | Was ever such a thing heard of?'' |
32925 | Was not this ample proof that he had been bewitched? |
32925 | Was there fear in my face?'' |
32925 | Well, Untuswa? |
32925 | What bolder act was ever performed, O Black Elephant?'' |
32925 | What claim, then, have you to sue for the privilege which is granted to tried warriors alone?'' |
32925 | What did not this terrible old wizard know? |
32925 | What hast thou to say, son of Ntelani?'' |
32925 | What have we to do with such, I say? |
32925 | What if I fled to it, and by my knowledge of the art of war gained a place and position among it? |
32925 | What if a new idea should arise in his mind? |
32925 | What if the King''s eye should fall upon her? |
32925 | What is the history of Umzilikazi himself?'' |
32925 | What is this? |
32925 | What sort of omen was it that had caused me to fall into it likewise? |
32925 | What were these who haunted this gloomy hole of death? |
32925 | What would it be when I should follow him into the dark mysteries as yet unveiled? |
32925 | What-- is that you, Untuswa?'' |
32925 | Where is Masuka? |
32925 | Where is the bravest act ever yet done?'' |
32925 | Where is the old Mosutu?'' |
32925 | Whither now wilt thou maraud?''" |
32925 | Who could have sent_ lobola_ and taken her away in those few days during which I had been absent? |
32925 | Who knows? |
32925 | Why do you value it so?" |
32925 | Why should I fight one whose life is forfeited to the King?'' |
32925 | Why would she stand forth thus, so prominent among the other women, in all the splendid vigour of her symmetrical frame? |
32925 | Wilt thou never learn wisdom?'' |
32925 | Words came forth:"` Who has bewitched the soldier of the King?'' |
32925 | Yet what mattered it, since the King still turned a deaf ear to my prayer, whatever brave acts I might perform? |
32925 | You will not do anything to it?" |
32925 | ` A man who is brave and cautious may climb to any height; and did not the King promise you his dark- handled assegai? |
32925 | ` And has your father accepted it?'' |
32925 | ` Are not these all lies? |
32925 | ` Are we come out to do the King''s errand, that a number of you should turn from your way to follow upon the tracks of a man and a maid? |
32925 | ` But say-- shall I obtain that which I desire?'' |
32925 | ` Can they be_ izanusi_--these?'' |
32925 | ` Did I not put in the fire that smoked these wolves out of their den? |
32925 | ` Do you desire to behold more_ muti_, O traveller through the heart of the earth?'' |
32925 | ` Do you perchance forget that the slayers are ever within hail?'' |
32925 | ` Do you see that man? |
32925 | ` Does the King allow me to proceed yonder alone?'' |
32925 | ` Have I not given thee thy life? |
32925 | ` How so, Untuswa?'' |
32925 | ` Is it Kalipe?'' |
32925 | ` Is it in that tone thou talkest to me, thou jackal- whelp-- to_ me_, dog- cub?'' |
32925 | ` Is not that enough to produce heavy thoughts?'' |
32925 | ` Is the hole deep?'' |
32925 | ` Shall it not be brought?'' |
32925 | ` So thou art returned once more? |
32925 | ` Tell me, O my father, if thy_ muti_ is strong enough, what desire I further, together with the_ isicoco_?'' |
32925 | ` The death of the hot stones, the stake of impalement, the nest of the black ants?'' |
32925 | ` Well, Untuswa, and what think you of this stranger_ izanusi_, whom Gungana has brought us? |
32925 | ` What do you here?'' |
32925 | ` What do_ you_ here?'' |
32925 | ` What dost thou see?'' |
32925 | ` What if they chatter?'' |
32925 | ` What is thy name, old man?'' |
32925 | ` What was my"word"to you then?'' |
32925 | ` When my other son, Sekweni, earned death for his reward, did I seek to stay the justice of the King? |
32925 | ` Where is Nangeza?'' |
32925 | ` Who is to die?'' |
32925 | ` Yourselves or I? |
32925 | and how should we pass the King''s outposts after? |
32925 | for have I not the King''s promise?'' |
32925 | he said;` for was he not killed?'' |
32925 | said the King;` does he live?'' |
32925 | since what living woman would undertake to overpower and bind one of the King''s sentinels? |
32925 | thou askest that form of death, son of Ntelani? |
32927 | All of them? |
32927 | And art thou so weak, Untuswa? |
32927 | And how dost thou know that, my sister? |
32927 | And how knowest thou that I am a man, O Fearless One? 32927 And how long ago is it that I left you, Jambula?" |
32927 | And how-- what of the women? 32927 And now, Untuswa, this thing will trouble the land no more?" |
32927 | And now, having saved thy nation, thou art to be the means of destroying it, Untuswa? |
32927 | And now, what is the message wherewith thou art charged? |
32927 | And now? 32927 And that?" |
32927 | And the men, who were they? |
32927 | And thine_ inkosikazi_, Untuswa, what of her? |
32927 | And was not that last night, O fool? 32927 And was this by day or by night?" |
32927 | And what is the name of the chief of these robbers, King? |
32927 | And what of thy slave, Jambula? |
32927 | And when thou hast slain it-- what then? |
32927 | And wherefore did ye not rout out that bull and return hither with his head, O useless ones? |
32927 | Are we not on the King''s errand? 32927 Art thou going to deliver me to be torn in pieces by the cubs of the Lion who is dead, Untuswa?" |
32927 | Art thou still afraid? |
32927 | Art thou then tired of thy sorcery? |
32927 | But a dead_ izanusi_--_whau_!--of what use is he? 32927 But how do I know this is true, thou witch?" |
32927 | But those under torture, King? |
32927 | But were they bad men, King? 32927 But, as we travel, tell me, what work is before me now?" |
32927 | But, tell me now, Lalusini, was not that tale true which was told me by old Gegesa? |
32927 | Children, have ye? |
32927 | Did I not know them? 32927 Didst thou make an end of those scorpions?" |
32927 | Do you fare our way, brother? |
32927 | Do you forget that you have a sorceress for_ inkosikazi_? |
32927 | Does ever a dog betray his master? |
32927 | Dost thou not fear? |
32927 | Fail? 32927 Hast thou gathered in all?" |
32927 | Hear you what these say? |
32927 | How can I tell it is not all a made- up story? |
32927 | How does_ that_ feel, and that, and that? |
32927 | How happened it? |
32927 | I would ask the Great Great One wherefore these are here at all, but that they may drink the blood of the King''s enemies? |
32927 | Is it the chief dog of this tribe of dogs ye have exterminated? 32927 Is not all I have at the disposal of the second induna of the King?" |
32927 | Is not the son of Matyobane-- the Founder of Mighty Nations-- the Elephant of the Amandebeli-- such a man? 32927 Last night the moon was less than half, and now--?" |
32927 | Now, father, should I have placed it there had I not known it was of more value to this nation than to me? |
32927 | Now,thought I,"where are these people of whom Lalusini spoke? |
32927 | Once more, who art thou? 32927 Others? |
32927 | Rather, who are ye? |
32927 | Rest a while? 32927 Say I not well, brothers?" |
32927 | See yon pool, Untuswa? |
32927 | See you these? |
32927 | See you this? 32927 See you this?" |
32927 | Seven nights ago that would be; and she has never returned? |
32927 | So ye are the people of God, brothers? |
32927 | So, Hlatusa? 32927 So, Untuswa,"he said,"when the doings of one king do not please thee thou wouldst_ konza_ to another?" |
32927 | So? |
32927 | Taking new wives at last, Untuswa? |
32927 | The bones? 32927 The forest growth is thick where we have to go,"he said,"and how shall I pass through it bound thus?" |
32927 | Their names? 32927 Then it is only revenge thou seekest?" |
32927 | Then you have nothing to say-- no reason to urge why the punishment of death should not be dealt out to you? |
32927 | Thou wilt, dog? |
32927 | Thy life? 32927 To the Red Death?" |
32927 | Was he not armed? |
32927 | Was it to learn the fate of a nation, Great Great One? |
32927 | Watched? 32927 Well with thee and thine? |
32927 | Well, dog? |
32927 | What do I not know? 32927 What do I see? |
32927 | What does it mean, Jambula? |
32927 | What hast thou done, woman? |
32927 | What have I to gain by making it up? 32927 What is that to me, Founder of a New Nation? |
32927 | What is the will of the Great Great One, son of Ntelani? |
32927 | What is thy name? |
32927 | What mean you, mother? |
32927 | What mean you? |
32927 | What prouder name has the world ever known? 32927 What sayest thou, Untuswa?" |
32927 | What then? 32927 What then?" |
32927 | What then? |
32927 | What then? |
32927 | What, then, are thy counsels, Untuswa? |
32927 | When two great bulls stand looking at each other over one fence, are they friends for long? |
32927 | Where is Lalusini? |
32927 | Where is Lalusini? |
32927 | Where is Mgwali? |
32927 | Where is Ncala- cala? |
32927 | Where is thy master? |
32927 | Wherefore this heaviness, holder of the White Shield? |
32927 | Who am I that I should contradict you, my father? 32927 Who am I that I should sport with the majesty of the King''s name?" |
32927 | Who are we that we should weary the ears of the Father of the Great? |
32927 | Who art thou, and what is thy name? |
32927 | Who art thou, thou man of blood, to wreck and mangle God''s Image thus? |
32927 | Who art thou-- and whence? |
32927 | Who art thou? |
32927 | Who art thou? |
32927 | Who come on behind thee? 32927 Who was she?" |
32927 | Why are these armed? |
32927 | Why did ye not stay the other side of Kwahlamba? |
32927 | Why, then, are we? |
32927 | Why, then, did ye leave your own land? |
32927 | Yet that is not ill- doing,I said,"for without enemies how should these lion- cubs find meat for their teeth?" |
32927 | Yet what will he say if such news as I bring be allowed to grow old? 32927 Yet` all''didst thou say? |
32927 | A man, did I say? |
32927 | Am I welcome?" |
32927 | And again, who sleeps within the shadow of powerful and propitious magic but the Father and Founder of this great nation?" |
32927 | And he, he who would, by the favour of the Amabuna, call himself King, where is he? |
32927 | And is it for good or for ill that they are here?" |
32927 | And now by virtue of what_ muti_ didst thou triumph over this evil thing of witchcraft?" |
32927 | And now, where art thou? |
32927 | And now?" |
32927 | And shall I see it too, my father?" |
32927 | And the fate of the Daughter of the Great-- is that an old woman''s tale?" |
32927 | And thyself, Untuswa, through many wanderings earnest thou here?" |
32927 | And what did you do next, Hlatusa?" |
32927 | And what spoil have ye brought?" |
32927 | And yet,_ Nkose_, it was just that he should, for had not he himself been the means of dooming many innocent persons to that very death? |
32927 | Anything I can tell you?" |
32927 | Are we threatened from without, or why art thou here?" |
32927 | Are_ any_ good enough for the Father of Nations?" |
32927 | Art thou turning fearful as time creeps upon thee?" |
32927 | At last he said quietly:"The way from the North is far, brother, is it not?" |
32927 | But before I could do so, she again croaked out:"What will you give to know something, Untuswa? |
32927 | But how didst thou know?" |
32927 | But how had she come into that helpless plight? |
32927 | But how is it that these people, if refugees, are allowed to dwell in the heart of the land unsought for?" |
32927 | But how to slay a great and terrible ghost-- a fearful thing not of this world? |
32927 | But if thou failest, what then?" |
32927 | But it could not last, for what could three- score and ten men, all unarmed, however valorous, do against a thousand, or, indeed, several thousand? |
32927 | But say then, son of Ntelani-- what of the moon? |
32927 | But their courage? |
32927 | But thou, what canst thou fear, O great_ izanusi_ who can not die?" |
32927 | But thy God? |
32927 | But was he alone? |
32927 | But what had made him drop thus suddenly? |
32927 | But what is the other"horn"doing? |
32927 | But you? |
32927 | But, who were these? |
32927 | But-- after? |
32927 | Can it be? |
32927 | Can it be? |
32927 | Could this last? |
32927 | Did I not hear the quiver of the spear- hafts of Mhlangana''s host long before it reached the Place of the Three Rifts?" |
32927 | Did ever peril of spear, or of the wrath of kings, make thy face cold as it now is? |
32927 | Did not even the warning of Silwane convey that? |
32927 | Did you not know them, Gegesa?" |
32927 | Dingane, too, began to see this, and asked eagerly, yet not without awe in his tone:"And when shall this be, sister?" |
32927 | Do I fear death-- I, Tambusa? |
32927 | Do these dogs lie?" |
32927 | Do you not allow your women to walk side by side with you instead of behind? |
32927 | Do you require Sikonyela to be delivered up to you?" |
32927 | Does he who rolled back the might of the Twin Stars of Zulu talk about failure? |
32927 | Dost thou not tremble-- thou who art even now within the portal of the Great Unknown? |
32927 | Doth not his spear rule the world, and the terror of his name--_au_!--who would hear it and laugh? |
32927 | Emissaries of Mpande? |
32927 | Fail? |
32927 | For the carrying out of his order decreeing, our death? |
32927 | For to what other use can we turn such a dog? |
32927 | For what purpose, then, had my life been saved, but to carry out that scheme of vengeance by some other means? |
32927 | From the North? |
32927 | Go?" |
32927 | Had I in refusing it acted the part of a fool? |
32927 | Had I not seen Lalusini''s face among the others-- among the faces of the dead-- for such were all the others? |
32927 | Had he not repeatedly taxed me with not carrying out the conditions of my challenge, so as to justify his own act of treachery? |
32927 | Had the grim alligators in Umzilikazi''s pool of death shrank back in fear from so royal a prey? |
32927 | Had the shades sent forth their spirits? |
32927 | Had there been but few men I had quickly been in their midst; but what can one man do against a hundred? |
32927 | Have I not rather to gain by not telling it? |
32927 | He to go home, when his father and chief was to die here? |
32927 | Here, I thought, was more sorcery to be looked into, and how should I root out the sorcery of the Red Magic save by the aid of other sorcery? |
32927 | How and where was that, Hlatusa?" |
32927 | How like you that, Jambula?" |
32927 | How now for that, Lalusini?" |
32927 | How sayest thou, Untuswa? |
32927 | How then canst thou serve me?" |
32927 | How was it I had never heard men speak of her? |
32927 | How will that be, Ngoza?" |
32927 | How, then, could it be slain? |
32927 | I answered,"I who am under the protection of great and powerful_ muti_? |
32927 | I looked at Jambula somewhat suspiciously, for a thought had come into my mind: What if he were meaning to betray me? |
32927 | I ought indeed to know that voice; yet what does its owner here thus and at such an hour? |
32927 | I was not dead,_ Nkose_; or, indeed, how should I be here telling you my story? |
32927 | Is it not so?" |
32927 | Is it? |
32927 | Is that the manner of the Amabuna, I would ask you,_ Nkose_? |
32927 | It is not always possible to carry out conditions in their entirety, is it? |
32927 | It is not always possible to carry out conditions in their entirety, is it? |
32927 | Knowest thou not_ this_ voice?" |
32927 | Looking straight at me, he said softly:"And what is to be thy reward for delivering this nation into my hand, Untuswa?" |
32927 | No sign, perchance?" |
32927 | Now I would ask the Great Great One, the leader of the nations in war, whether one man, and he a slave, constitutes an armed force?" |
32927 | Now-- art thou ready?" |
32927 | On whose faith could one set entire belief? |
32927 | Powerful beyond all others I knew Lalusini''s magic to be; was it then sufficiently powerful to bring her back from the dead? |
32927 | Say, are we not of the sort who are born to that end?" |
32927 | Say; why are ye not ridding me of this evil thing which has crept into the nation?" |
32927 | Sayest thou so, holder of the White Shield?" |
32927 | Shall we keep a dog who can not guard our house? |
32927 | Should I creep round the rocks and slay the monster, while its attention was taken up watching my slaves? |
32927 | Should I look within it? |
32927 | Tell me, Untuswa, where is such a man?" |
32927 | That this thing should be slain before the full of the moon-- was not that one of my conditions? |
32927 | The Queen of the Bakoni_ muti_--who shall explain them better than she?" |
32927 | The darker mysteries of the Bakoni_ muti_!--preluding the accession of a new king? |
32927 | The face of Lalusini, beautiful, but sad and agonised? |
32927 | Then should we not be among the highest of the nation? |
32927 | Then the leader said:"What seek you here, Untuswa, for in truth that is a name which is known?" |
32927 | Then will the King, the Great Great One, give me my life?" |
32927 | Then would there not be some who might groan aloud because the son of Kona had returned?" |
32927 | They made a show of asking the land from the King, but had Dingane refused to listen to them, would they have gone back the way they came? |
32927 | Thus he speaks:` We made an agreement, have I not kept it? |
32927 | Untuswa, is it? |
32927 | Untuswa, the wanderer? |
32927 | Untuswa, who fled from the north to_ konza_ to another King? |
32927 | Waited for what? |
32927 | Was I dreaming, or had I gone mad with the prolonged suspense of my impending doom? |
32927 | Was it a snare-- was it a trap Tambusa had set for my undoing? |
32927 | Was it an evil dream? |
32927 | Was it because I was a stranger and not yet fully trusted? |
32927 | Was it her magic that so kept her? |
32927 | Was it not about a hunted buffalo who found safety in the Ngome forests?" |
32927 | Was it only a lion-- or a ghost- beast, which would spread and spread till its hugeness overshadowed the world? |
32927 | Was it really Lalusini whom I had seen, or was it another sorceress who bore to her a most marvellous likeness-- a sister, perhaps? |
32927 | Was this part of a scheme-- of a carefully- matured plan? |
32927 | Well, it is there, send and take it, or shall I send it in? |
32927 | Well, what mattered further greatness? |
32927 | Were any good enough to bring hither?" |
32927 | What did it mean? |
32927 | What else did you find there? |
32927 | What have ye to say?" |
32927 | What have you to say?" |
32927 | What if I fail, Lalusini?" |
32927 | What is thy mind in this matter?" |
32927 | What meanest thou, fool, leading those who pursue thee to my hiding- place?" |
32927 | What of him, Mahlula?" |
32927 | What of the Red Death? |
32927 | What of the slaves who were with thee?" |
32927 | What then?" |
32927 | What was their crime?" |
32927 | What will you give me if I tell you that which you would most like to learn?" |
32927 | Where is Lalusini?" |
32927 | Where is Lalusini?" |
32927 | Where is Umhlela? |
32927 | Whither had she gone? |
32927 | Who art thou, sinful man?" |
32927 | Who could be trusted? |
32927 | Who could those"others"be, of whom my sorceress- wife had spoken while her spirit was away among the spirits of those unseen? |
32927 | Who is that?" |
32927 | Who were they who took to themselves the right to make and unmake Kings for the Zulu nation? |
32927 | Who-- what is it? |
32927 | Whom have ye there?" |
32927 | Why had they broken faith with the Great Great One who sits at Nkunkundhlovu? |
32927 | Why was she not there now, waiting to welcome me? |
32927 | With that people, who comes? |
32927 | Would his heart fail him? |
32927 | Would it indeed fall to mortal weapon? |
32927 | Would not Jambula, out of breath, falter for one instant? |
32927 | Would not his foot stumble in the tortuous rapidity of his flight? |
32927 | Would she not reappear as she had done before? |
32927 | Would they come? |
32927 | Would they never come beneath the tree where I-- the great assegai gripped and ready-- lay out along the bough waiting my chance? |
32927 | Would this braggart, they thought, turn coward, and endeavour at the last moment to save his life? |
32927 | Wouldst thou look further into the future?" |
32927 | Yet why should he thus have tried to excuse what he had done? |
32927 | Yet, had not that time come? |
32927 | Yet, wilt thou not leave thy weapons outside?" |
32927 | _ Haul_ Does this feel good-- and this-- and this?" |
32927 | _ Still_ unavenged, should I not have said? |
32927 | but I think thou dost understand somewhat of the ways of war?" |
32927 | do I not lead the whole nation in war? |
32927 | it cried;"wouldst thou see more of the unseen? |
32927 | was ever such a thing heard of? |
32927 | what was that? |
32927 | where Nomapela and Untuswa?" |
32927 | where is Silwane? |
32927 | who is there I do not know?" |
32569 | A Zulu, is he? 32569 A little civilisation does n''t come amiss after the long spell of trekking we''ve had, eh, Ridgeley?" |
32569 | Ah, you think it do n''t look much like it, eh? 32569 All this dancing and bellowing is getting just a trifle thin-- eh, Ridgeley?" |
32569 | Am I a child-- are these children, Jandosi, that you fill up our ears with such tales as this? |
32569 | Am I an owl-- am I a bat, Ingonyama, that you would strain my eyes into seeing through the dark? 32569 Am I armed?" |
32569 | Am I responsible for what he has done? |
32569 | Among the Swazi dogs? 32569 An up- country trip with you? |
32569 | Anchored? |
32569 | And now what do you propose doing? |
32569 | And now,_ abelungu_, what have you got to sell? |
32569 | And so yours was the stroke that saved my life? 32569 And this, my father, what shall we do with it?" |
32569 | And was it this one hole that let out the life? |
32569 | And what if you''re caught? |
32569 | And what is the` something''you are thinking of doing, Ridgeley? |
32569 | And where was it killed? |
32569 | And who was the man who was impaled, Vunawayo? 32569 And will you kindly state_ what_ money it is you desire returned?" |
32569 | And you find it roughish, eh? |
32569 | Anstey, is it? |
32569 | Are these all your people? |
32569 | Are you not ready to win the double gun? 32569 Are you prepared to face your chiefs with such a story? |
32569 | Are you so utterly devoid of imagination? 32569 As lightning we smote them, Where, where are they now? |
32569 | Been keeping up your boxing since then, eh? |
32569 | Brought into it? |
32569 | But did n''t you say, Ridgeley, you had friends in Maritzburg to whom you were consigned? |
32569 | But supposing I do n''t owe you anything, my fine fellow? 32569 But what has become of him, Mr Kingsland? |
32569 | But why do n''t they ask for it outright? 32569 But would it be better than knocking up a rescue expedition among our own people-- in Natal for instance?" |
32569 | But, Vunawayo, what is that? |
32569 | But-- what''s his name? |
32569 | By the way, what has become of Anstey? |
32569 | By whom? |
32569 | D''you mean to deny that this youngster ever handed you twenty- five pounds? 32569 Did n''t I give them the right kind?" |
32569 | Did n''t I, Smith? |
32569 | Did n''t you give that as a reason just now for not leaving Sintoba and the others behind? 32569 Did you come into the Zulu country all alone to kill alligators, or to pay me a visit?" |
32569 | Do men travel in such haste to deliver no news? |
32569 | Do n''t you know me, Mr Kingsland? |
32569 | Do we outspan on this side or cross first? |
32569 | Do you belong to the chief Ingonyama? |
32569 | Do you know Sobuza? |
32569 | Do? 32569 Does a white man, carrying a message to the king, travel through the country in that state?" |
32569 | Does it hurt-- does it hurt, Jandosi? |
32569 | Even then, is not the bark of one dog, less than that of two-- of several? |
32569 | Going to join the Police, maybe? |
32569 | Going to sell him up, are they? |
32569 | Going up- country, mister? |
32569 | Had a good sleep? 32569 Had n''t we better get away from here as soon as possible?" |
32569 | Had n''t we better let well alone? |
32569 | Have I? 32569 Have you any more guns to sell,_ Umlungu_?" |
32569 | Have you come here to trade or to play the fool? |
32569 | Have you not said that they who let the boy slip through them and escape should supply meat for The Tooth? 32569 Have you quite done making a speech, Dawes?" |
32569 | Heard anything more about the Zulu question, Arthur? |
32569 | Help one another''s the rule of the road-- eh, George? |
32569 | Here, drop that, will you? |
32569 | Hot, eh, Ridgeley? |
32569 | How can you say that? |
32569 | How did we know he was there any more than you did yourself? 32569 How did you do it?" |
32569 | How did you escape, Sintoba, and where have you been hiding? |
32569 | How do you do, Mr Ridgeley? 32569 How ever will they settle the claim?" |
32569 | How many fighting men has Ingonyama, Jeriji? |
32569 | How much did you bring out with you? |
32569 | How would you like to be a transport- rider yourself? |
32569 | How? 32569 I suppose you know,"said Smith, in his wooden, expressionless manner,"I''ve got the sack on your account?" |
32569 | I suppose, if the truth were known, the Transvaal claim is actually a fraud? |
32569 | If you are leaving us, had I not better carry your word of farewell to the chief? |
32569 | Ingonyama? |
32569 | Is it as bad as that? |
32569 | Is it ever cold here? |
32569 | Is it so- called because of its shape? |
32569 | Is n''t it? 32569 Is n''t there a proverb, that if you save a fellow''s life he''s bound to play you a shady trick?" |
32569 | Is the fellow drunk,he said,"or only mad? |
32569 | Is there no better plan? |
32569 | Is this a horde without a leader? 32569 Kazimbi? |
32569 | Know you? 32569 Letter? |
32569 | Like to ride, eh? 32569 Looking him up, maybe?" |
32569 | May I not see them? |
32569 | Met before, have you? |
32569 | Mister, you ai n''t one of them Good Templar chaps, are you? |
32569 | Name? 32569 Name?" |
32569 | Never ate` green mealies''before, eh, mister? |
32569 | Nothing like looking around a bit before making up one''s mind, eh? |
32569 | Of the people of Zulu? 32569 Of the people of Zulu?" |
32569 | Oh, you are? 32569 Oh, you''re not, eh? |
32569 | Old stagers, like me, can jump on and off while trekking along, but you''d get under the wheels-- sure-- and then what''d Kingsland say? |
32569 | Or frightened? |
32569 | Overhaul them? 32569 Remember what I said, just before we made acquaintance with the Igazipuza,"went on Dawes,"that you''d have some rare yarns to spin to old Kingsland? |
32569 | Reply? 32569 Ridgeley-- isn''t it?" |
32569 | Row? 32569 Row? |
32569 | Row? |
32569 | Say, mister, what''ll you drink? |
32569 | Shall we burn it, my father? |
32569 | Shall we not place it on` the point of the Tooth,''that even the very birds may behold the fate of the enemies of the Great Great One? |
32569 | Shall we take a gun along this morning? |
32569 | Since when has the son of a chief learnt to talk with the loud tongue and windbag swagger of the_ Amabuna_? |
32569 | Since when is the son of a chief to be reviled by a Kafula, who is doing dog at the heels of a travelling white man? |
32569 | So he''s a relation of yours? 32569 So you have come to look at the point of The Tooth?" |
32569 | So? 32569 So? |
32569 | So? 32569 So? |
32569 | So? |
32569 | So? |
32569 | So? |
32569 | So? |
32569 | So? |
32569 | So? |
32569 | Stay on here and look around for a few days, or get away further up- country? |
32569 | Still counter- jumping with that distinguished- looking relation of yours? |
32569 | Stumped, eh? 32569 That hard up, are you? |
32569 | These? 32569 This? |
32569 | This? |
32569 | Travelled up in a waggon, did you say? 32569 We do n''t live so badly, even on the road, eh, Ridgeley?" |
32569 | Well, Jandosi, what do you say? |
32569 | Well, Jandosi? |
32569 | Well, Ridgeley, how did you come through it? |
32569 | Well, Smith, how''s` biz''? |
32569 | Well, how do you think you''d like storekeeping? |
32569 | Were they not already fleeing to their own land, when our people met them and_ turned them back_? 32569 What I owe you-- eh?" |
32569 | What are we going to do, now? |
32569 | What did you say your name was? |
32569 | What do you think, Ridgeley? 32569 What have you got to sell,_ abelungu_?" |
32569 | What if his dog already barks in the ear of the king? |
32569 | What if the gun is broken in the battle? |
32569 | What if we have to? |
32569 | What is it called? |
32569 | What is the news? |
32569 | What is the price? |
32569 | What is this? |
32569 | What is to be the programme? |
32569 | What is your name, boy? |
32569 | What is your name? |
32569 | What it this, that the king''s hunting- dogs snarl against each other? |
32569 | What of this? |
32569 | What reply can we make? |
32569 | What sort of a dog- hole is it that that cad is sending us to? 32569 What sort of people are they in the way of trade?" |
32569 | What the blazes have you got to say to it anyhow? |
32569 | What''s the row now? |
32569 | What''s the row, Ridgeley? |
32569 | What, afraid? 32569 What, then, are these used for?" |
32569 | What, then, would you counsel, my brethren? |
32569 | What-- what did you do that for? |
32569 | What? |
32569 | Where are the cows? |
32569 | Where are you, May? 32569 Where does he live?" |
32569 | Where have you dropped from now-- and who have you got with you? 32569 Where is Ingonyama?" |
32569 | Where is your brother? |
32569 | Where is your brother? |
32569 | Where? |
32569 | Who are you,_ Umlungu_, and where do you come from? |
32569 | Who are you? |
32569 | Who are you? |
32569 | Who are you? |
32569 | Who is he? |
32569 | Who is your chief? |
32569 | Who is your chief? |
32569 | Who''s that fellow you were yarning to? |
32569 | Who''s your long- legged friend? |
32569 | Who-- what are these? |
32569 | Why do n''t you fence your confounded mealie- field, or whatever you call it? |
32569 | Why not begin with him, now, this very day? |
32569 | Why not stay on here a bit, Gerard, and help me in the store? |
32569 | Why on earth did n''t you say so before? |
32569 | Why should n''t we mount guard over them all night-- one of us by turns? 32569 Why, how is it that you are here?" |
32569 | Why, what the deuce is the meaning of this? |
32569 | Why, when did you fellows get back? |
32569 | Will you not ride out yourself and look at your cattle Jandosi, as you have ever done before? |
32569 | Will you? |
32569 | Would n''t the people at home invest something for you, eh? 32569 Yet what shall we say when their chiefs ask for their return?" |
32569 | You ca n''t grow peaches and grapes like this out- of- doors in England? |
32569 | You know him-- you know them? |
32569 | You would n''t be over particular as to the sort of billet you might get, eh? |
32569 | You would, eh? 32569 You''re a mighty virtuous lot, eh, Sam Carruthers?" |
32569 | Your eyes, Jandosi? 32569 Your eyes?" |
32569 | _ Amakafula? 32569 _ The_ very tallest-- eh, George?" |
32569 | Against the law, did you say? |
32569 | Ah, thanks-- but have we got time?" |
32569 | All? |
32569 | And but for that, where should I have been?" |
32569 | And did I not tell you that we have a Tooth here which can bite it short? |
32569 | And was I not the first to reach his side, I and my kinsmen? |
32569 | And what are your plans, Maitland?" |
32569 | And what have you been doing with yourselves since you got ashore?" |
32569 | And what''s yours?" |
32569 | And would you not deserve it?" |
32569 | And, indeed, could he so look to any? |
32569 | Are there none of your friends who will go with you? |
32569 | Are you fond of shooting?" |
32569 | Are you going to fork out or are you not? |
32569 | Are you going to visit him?" |
32569 | Are you not dogs even to hint at such a thing?" |
32569 | Are you willing to throw away the wage of all this service?" |
32569 | Ask him if such was not his word?" |
32569 | At Wayne''s, are you? |
32569 | Be it remembered, however, that Gerard is young, and rather a fine fellow-- And have we not said that May Kingsland is a very pretty and sweet girl? |
32569 | Besides, are we not in the swim together and jointly? |
32569 | Besides, what claim had he upon anybody? |
32569 | But how to get at him? |
32569 | But how? |
32569 | But how? |
32569 | But is there really such a chap as Ingonyama? |
32569 | But what chance had he? |
32569 | But what good purpose would that serve? |
32569 | But what to do next? |
32569 | But where? |
32569 | But, excuse the question, I suppose you find yourself at pretty low ebb just now, eh?" |
32569 | But, first tell me, are you and your men out against-- my countrymen?" |
32569 | But-- where do you come from?" |
32569 | By- the- by, did n''t you get my letter?" |
32569 | Can you catch it?" |
32569 | Could he believe his ears? |
32569 | Could he not get back far enough into the hole to be beyond the reach of spears? |
32569 | Could it be that the guards had all been summoned to attend the revelry? |
32569 | Could it be that the place was deserted? |
32569 | Could it be that the unfortunate man had been seized by one of these? |
32569 | Could it be-- dared he hope-- that he was after all to meet with no opposition? |
32569 | Could n''t you get on with him, or was n''t the work to your taste?" |
32569 | Did I not tell you my` tongue''was a long one and spoke far? |
32569 | Did he grasp aright the other''s meaning? |
32569 | Did he-- er-- seem to know me?" |
32569 | Did it, too, hold its tortured writhing victim? |
32569 | Did n''t you see it?" |
32569 | Did you want to see me? |
32569 | Dishonesty? |
32569 | Do many fellows come to grief that way?" |
32569 | Do you hear, sir?" |
32569 | Do you know him, then?" |
32569 | Do you know him,_ Umlungu_?" |
32569 | Do you know him?" |
32569 | Do you know him?" |
32569 | Does he know you''re coming?" |
32569 | Does he live near here, then?" |
32569 | Does he want all the Zulu country?" |
32569 | Eh, Maitland?" |
32569 | Eh, Nkumbi?" |
32569 | Eh, sonny? |
32569 | Eh, what? |
32569 | Fine one, is n''t it?" |
32569 | For if that were so, what chance was there for Dawes, in the power of one of Cetywayo''s savage vassals? |
32569 | Found him, I suppose?" |
32569 | Get out of that, will you?" |
32569 | Got any traps?" |
32569 | Got anything to declare?" |
32569 | Had he not gone through enough in all conscience? |
32569 | Had he succeeded in breaking through the lines during the confusion caused by the rush of the cattle? |
32569 | Had the Igazipuza elected to choose their own fighting- ground, and retired to some spot strategically more favourable for resisting the invaders? |
32569 | Had the savages already accomplished their horrible work and gone away? |
32569 | Had they been watching them when they discovered the massacre; could they, indeed, have been seen from that point of vantage? |
32569 | Had they gone on-- given up the search? |
32569 | Had they scented him? |
32569 | Hang it all, ca n''t we get on the horses some dark night, and make a dash for it?" |
32569 | Have they not been well and rightly served?" |
32569 | Have you seen anything of him lately?" |
32569 | He might even thus ensure his own escape; but in that case would he not be dooming to death his comrade? |
32569 | He was pretty boozy last night, eh?" |
32569 | How are you, my dear fellow, how are you?" |
32569 | How came it that he was allowed to march out thus with colours flying and drums beating, to march out with all the honours of war? |
32569 | How do you like the idea of that, in a blazing sun about as hot again as it is to- day? |
32569 | How does that pan out-- eh?" |
32569 | How has it been using you?" |
32569 | How is it we did n''t spot the thing before?" |
32569 | How many did Jandosi think would meet his requirements? |
32569 | How shall we find him?" |
32569 | How should I know he was no better than a common thief?" |
32569 | How would it be to put something into it? |
32569 | How would that pan out for an experiment in England, for instance?" |
32569 | How''s Kingsland?" |
32569 | I expect the stones shook you awake-- eh?" |
32569 | I have a distant relative up there-- Anstey his name is-- perhaps you know him? |
32569 | I suppose, now, you can hardly bring yourself to believe that old Ingonyama, Vunawayo, and the rest of''em were n''t just so many chaps in a dream?" |
32569 | If, as you say, my brother has fled, how then can I tell where he is at this moment? |
32569 | Is he to have the gun?" |
32569 | Is n''t there a Mr Anstey living somewhere about here? |
32569 | Is n''t there a word for it in their language? |
32569 | Is not a splendid lion''s skin like this of more value than the mere price of a girl? |
32569 | Is the king a fool that he would exchange the hundreds of the Igazipuza spears for the lives of two miserable white dogs? |
32569 | It would give you a share-- make you a kind of partner, do n''t you see?" |
32569 | Jolly healthy life that, eh?" |
32569 | Let him lie in peace, for was he not a chief?" |
32569 | Like to get into a scrimmage with a Zulu_ impi_?" |
32569 | My name''s Ridgeley, and--""Eh? |
32569 | Not we?" |
32569 | Now then, get below, will you? |
32569 | Now, which would you suppose the Zulus are keenest on?" |
32569 | Now, why not put that twenty- five pounds into this concern? |
32569 | Now-- is it not in your interest that it should be cleared?" |
32569 | Of the people of Zulu? |
32569 | One day Anstey said to him,"Would n''t you like to have some interest, some share in the business, Gerard?" |
32569 | One, did we say? |
32569 | Or was there some secret way out of the hollow, known only to a few, and kept for an emergency such as this? |
32569 | Refugees? |
32569 | Ropes? |
32569 | Runaways? |
32569 | Say? |
32569 | See? |
32569 | See?" |
32569 | Shall they die by the bite of The Tooth?" |
32569 | So they shipped you off to shift for yourself, eh? |
32569 | So?" |
32569 | Some of the trader''s people who had escaped? |
32569 | Ten cows? |
32569 | That''ll draw him-- eh? |
32569 | The next morning, when they turned out, Dawes said--"Do you feel like paying Bob Kingsland a visit, Ridgeley?" |
32569 | The sons of the lightning, The wizards of thunder? |
32569 | Then indeed would they not cut the hearts out of you and drink your blood, O fool, Kazimbi, tongue and mouthpiece of five other fools? |
32569 | Then one of them said--"What have you got to sell,_ Umlungu_?" |
32569 | Then what''d be said to me I''d like to know?" |
32569 | Think so, do you?" |
32569 | Thunder? |
32569 | To this we will append another prophecy; no, rather we will only hint at one-- but softly, cautiously, for are we not treading on delicate ground? |
32569 | Was Gerard standing upon air, or only upon very solid and rather dry ground? |
32569 | Was he engaged in the congenial pastime of head- breaking then, too?" |
32569 | Was he to kick it out again in peevish disgust because the stirrup was a bit rusty? |
32569 | Was it for this he had come out to Natal? |
32569 | Was there no escape? |
32569 | We are going to have this-- eh, Ridgeley?" |
32569 | Well, Maitland,"as Harry rejoined them,"ready to start on such short marching orders, eh?" |
32569 | Were people then_ hanged_ from the brow-- not merely thrown over? |
32569 | Were they beginning to scent his presence? |
32569 | What I want now is the return of my money?" |
32569 | What chance had he, standing in it up to his neck? |
32569 | What could it mean? |
32569 | What did he die for?" |
32569 | What did it mean? |
32569 | What did it mean? |
32569 | What do you propose to do?" |
32569 | What do you say to the idea?" |
32569 | What do you say, now?" |
32569 | What do you suppose I keep you here for at all? |
32569 | What do you think you''re likely to be doing with yourselves now you are here, if I may ask?" |
32569 | What does it eat?" |
32569 | What does that mean?" |
32569 | What had happened? |
32569 | What had they done with John Dawes, with Sintoba, Fulani, and the other natives? |
32569 | What has become of Sintoba, and the rest of them?" |
32569 | What have you been doing with yourself all this time? |
32569 | What have you got to sell?" |
32569 | What have you got to sell?" |
32569 | What if the war with the English had actually broken out? |
32569 | What marvellous thing was to happen next, they thought? |
32569 | What new horror did this represent? |
32569 | What now shall we say when their chiefs ask,` Where are our children whom we hired to you to drive your cattle? |
32569 | What the devil are you doing there, tramping down all my green mealies? |
32569 | What was the price? |
32569 | What would you say to going an up- country trip with me?" |
32569 | What''s all the row about? |
32569 | What''s all this?" |
32569 | What''s it to be-- two out of three, or` sudden death''?" |
32569 | What-- this thing?" |
32569 | When a nigger brings a bottle and asks for paraffin, and goes like this-- see?" |
32569 | When did you land?" |
32569 | Where are they, that they return not to their own land?''" |
32569 | Where is Ingonyama? |
32569 | Where is Ingonyama?" |
32569 | Where is Vunawayo?" |
32569 | Where is your chief?" |
32569 | Where was the free, healthy, open- air life he and his young companions at home had so glowingly evolved? |
32569 | Where would Gerard have been, for instance, under the critical circumstances of that night? |
32569 | Where would he have been but for this later one? |
32569 | Where''ve you dropped from?" |
32569 | Where, too, is their dwelling, Their cattle, their cornfields? |
32569 | Where? |
32569 | Which is it to be?" |
32569 | Who are you?" |
32569 | Who had done it? |
32569 | Who is he who helped me out of the water?" |
32569 | Who were they? |
32569 | Who''s doing it this time?" |
32569 | Whose waggon?" |
32569 | Why did you not come through the Zulu country?" |
32569 | Why on earth did n''t you make him give you a receipt or something?" |
32569 | Why should not they? |
32569 | Why should we? |
32569 | Why such an expedition would mean a young war, and do you think Government would embark on that for the sake of a brace of poor devils of traders? |
32569 | Why, Robertson there, alongside you, bit the mealie cob clean in half, and then said it seemed rather dry sort of forage-- eh, Robertson?" |
32569 | Why, what''s the matter?" |
32569 | Why, where are you putting up?" |
32569 | Would he be an object for envy if they could see him now? |
32569 | Would it never end? |
32569 | Would it not be best to inspan quietly, and trek right away out of the country?" |
32569 | Would not Nature even come to his aid, afford him a hiding- place, a refuge? |
32569 | Would not some knives do instead of the gun? |
32569 | Would not the latter be inevitably sacrificed? |
32569 | Would not the other attack him next, even if the blood did not attract yet more of them? |
32569 | Would not the revengeful and exasperated barbarians demand life for life, blood for blood? |
32569 | Would they discover it or pass it by? |
32569 | Would, you mind letting me pass?" |
32569 | Yet, do you seek the kraal of the chief, Sirayo? |
32569 | You here, too?" |
32569 | You''d never have dreamt it, eh, Gerard? |
32569 | Your twenty- five thousand pounds, did you say?" |
32569 | Your what? |
32569 | _ Reims_? |
32569 | and might not he himself, and Dawes, be called upon to suffer in like fashion, at the mercy, as they were, of this horde of cruel barbarians? |
32569 | asked Dawes; or a coloured umbrella, anything in fact? |
32569 | or would you rather walk?" |
32569 | to thrust in their assegais as far as they would go? |
32569 | was he not premature in his congratulations? |
32569 | what was that? |
32569 | what''s the row?" |
1724 | ''And if I refuse to play this trick,''said Heda,''what then?'' 1724 ''What price, O Lady of Death?'' |
1724 | ''Would he come with me to Ulundi?'' 1724 And do you wish me to be that grasshopper, Zikali?" |
1724 | And if he does this thing, which I hold no doctor in the world can do, what shall it signify? |
1724 | And if the king refuses, what then, Zikali? |
1724 | And now,went on Goza,"will the Inkosi be pleased to start, as we have to travel far to- day?" |
1724 | And what does the king wish, Goza? |
1724 | And what happened to you afterwards? |
1724 | And what will the King answer? |
1724 | And which does he wish, Goza? |
1724 | And who showed it to you? |
1724 | And why,I asked,"do you show yourself a fool by supposing that I, whom you know to be none, am a fool? |
1724 | Are the white men so far away, King? 1724 Are those the kind of compliments you used to pay in your youth, Mr. Quatermain? |
1724 | Are you indeed a doctoress, being so young? |
1724 | Are you not afraid that they will follow us here? |
1724 | Are you the man,I asked,"to accuse others of crime? |
1724 | Are you? 1724 As for killing him, can not the King kill whom he will? |
1724 | At what do you gaze so hard, King and Councillors? |
1724 | Baas,he gasped,"Baas, how did you know?" |
1724 | Baas,replied Footsack, trembling all over,"how do I know? |
1724 | Been trading up there? |
1724 | Before I leave I must eat, for who can journey upon yesterday''s food? 1724 But what are you going to do?" |
1724 | But why did you mock me in this fashion, Zikali? |
1724 | But why do you not send for the white doctors to cure the king? |
1724 | Ca n''t you lend me a team of oxen,I asked,"to drag it to the house?" |
1724 | Can I see the king? |
1724 | Can we bolt back the way we came, Allan? |
1724 | Certainly, for why should not Providence inhabit a penny as much as it does any other mundane thing? 1724 Did I not promise you long ago that you should be with me at the last, and are you not with me and another?" |
1724 | Did I not tell you I had a presentiment that I should kill a man in this accursed wood? |
1724 | Did I, Macumazahn? 1724 Did I? |
1724 | Did that bush give you any particular impression? |
1724 | Did you ever kill one to win a woman? |
1724 | Did you find this here? |
1724 | Did you not hear the King''s command, White Man? |
1724 | Do all agree? |
1724 | Do n''t you think you had both better go to bed, gentlemen? |
1724 | Do the white people always name those liars who tell them true things they can not understand? |
1724 | Do you doubt me any longer? |
1724 | Do you know English, Nombe? |
1724 | Do you know your way? 1724 Do you mean that you think you are going to kill somebody else?" |
1724 | Do you really mean that? |
1724 | Do you suspect me of poisoning him? |
1724 | Do you? 1724 Does your name happen to be Allan Quatermain?" |
1724 | English gentlemen,remarked Rodd reflectively,"Well, Anscombe is of course, but how about that other hunter? |
1724 | Goza,I said at last,"do the Zulus really mean to fight the English?" |
1724 | Has she come then? |
1724 | Have I not told you always to let down the blinds after dark? 1724 Have you ever seen one you knew in life after death?" |
1724 | Have you got that flask of Hollands about you, Quatermain? |
1724 | His father? |
1724 | How about the English? |
1724 | How can I ask the white men who are far away? |
1724 | How can a dead man speak to you and how can I meet a woman who is dead? |
1724 | How can any of your race sit in your seat while you still live? 1724 How can you be so hard- hearted, Quatermain? |
1724 | How could I undo the knot that I had tied and stamp out the fire that I had lit? 1724 How did you learn all this?" |
1724 | How do I know that you come from Zikali? |
1724 | How do you do? |
1724 | How do you fill in your time here,I asked carelessly,"as you do n''t farm?" |
1724 | How do you know all these things, Zikali? |
1724 | How do you know that they were dead? |
1724 | How do you know that, Zikali? |
1724 | How do you know? |
1724 | How goes the war? |
1724 | How old are you, Miss Marnham? |
1724 | How should I know what he means, O King? |
1724 | How should I know? |
1724 | How, unless it be broken, Macumazahn? 1724 I laughed into that ghost face of hers and said--"''Is this all? |
1724 | I say, old fellow,said Anscombe earnestly,"you do n''t really mean to go off and leave me in this hideousness? |
1724 | I warned you the trip was dangerous, did I not? 1724 If I declare for war and we win, shall I be greater than I am? |
1724 | If there is nothing to fear, Mr. Quatermain,she answered, turning on me,"why do you look so frightened yourself? |
1724 | In what way indeed? |
1724 | Indeed, Goza, and is your errand to cut my throat? |
1724 | Indeed, and what may that woman be like? |
1724 | Is anything wrong with my father? |
1724 | Is it for peace or war? |
1724 | Is it so, Goza? 1724 Is it so? |
1724 | Is it so? |
1724 | Is it the place, Macumazahn, or is it the thought of one whom once you met in the place, one who is dead? |
1724 | Is man ever happy, Macumazahn, when he has gained that which he sought for years? 1724 Is n''t that rather a risky district?" |
1724 | Is that all, O King? |
1724 | It is cold in this hut, is it not? |
1724 | It may be so,said Cetewayo sullenly,"yet it was no spirit iron that cut my thigh, but what do I know of the ways of Spirits? |
1724 | Macumazahn, how can I tell you who only know what I myself am told? |
1724 | Macumazahn, if he did not live, how could he visit and speak with me? 1724 Macumazahn, you remember the story that I told you long ago, do you not?" |
1724 | Made a good job of your operation? |
1724 | Marry? |
1724 | No, I could scarcely expect to yet, but why do you ask? |
1724 | Now what is it you ask of me? 1724 Now who will take charge of these?" |
1724 | O Macumazahn, who can prevent a needle from piercing cloth when it is pushed by a finger like yours? 1724 Of course we understand that you are quite alone and have no friends, is it not so, my brothers?" |
1724 | Oh, I understand, further under the root, a jackal buried it, did it? 1724 Painful?" |
1724 | Perhaps I might, but then what should I gain, Zikali? |
1724 | Quite so,I answered,"but what killed him?" |
1724 | Right,I answered,"but might I ask what that has to do with your both counting a hundred?" |
1724 | Saw you ever the like of that? |
1724 | Say, am I Nombe now? 1724 So I have understood,"I answered,"but does this lady live here?" |
1724 | Tell me, Mr. Quatermain,she added,"is it possible for one woman to be in love with another?" |
1724 | Tell me, are you really alive? |
1724 | Tell me, why do you make such crack- brained arrangements? |
1724 | That is to be proved, is it not? 1724 That looks like fighting, does it not, Macumazahn?" |
1724 | That''s a nice man for a prospective, son- in- law, is n''t he? |
1724 | The second matter is-- what shall chance to the king? 1724 The words are Zikali''s,"I said, returning her the knife,"but why do you call yourself the child of one who is too old to be a father?" |
1724 | Then what did you do? |
1724 | Then why did you write to tell me that I ought to come as he was not at all well? |
1724 | Then why not break it off? 1724 Then why,"asked the man,"did you, whom all know to be wise, show yourself to have suddenly become a fool?" |
1724 | There are no kraals about, are there? |
1724 | There,said Heda,"how many do you make it? |
1724 | This is the Chief she loves? |
1724 | This must have been nearly two hours after I heard the men begin to talk--"Excuse me,I interrupted,"but where was Nombe all those two hours?" |
1724 | Was he murdered or did he commit suicide? |
1724 | Wet nights? |
1724 | What are you staring at, O King? |
1724 | What do my ears hear? |
1724 | What do you mean? |
1724 | What do you see up there, Macumazahn, that you stare so hard? |
1724 | What do you think? |
1724 | What do you want my counsel about, Zikali? |
1724 | What does Mr. Quatermain think himself? |
1724 | What does the Inkosikaasi( i.e., the chieftainess) say concerning me, Macumazahn? |
1724 | What does the old wizard mean? |
1724 | What else did he say? |
1724 | What had killed them? |
1724 | What have I to do with it? |
1724 | What if those white rats have hidden in it? |
1724 | What is demanded if you would avoid war, O King? |
1724 | What is it, Macumazahn? |
1724 | What is it? |
1724 | What is she doing here? |
1724 | What is the hurry, King, seeing that the forest is far away? 1724 What is the matter with you, King?" |
1724 | What is this that my ears hear? |
1724 | What kind of blankets do you like; the plain grey ones or the white ones with the blue stripes? |
1724 | What sign does the Council require, Son of Panda? |
1724 | What spooks? |
1724 | What the devil are you driving at? |
1724 | What the devil is that to you,he asked furiously,"and what do you mean by firing at me?" |
1724 | What was that dog doing? |
1724 | What white man? |
1724 | What''s the matter now? |
1724 | What''s the matter? |
1724 | When is it to come? |
1724 | Where are the oxen? |
1724 | Where are the white chief and the lady Heddana? |
1724 | Where does the path run to? |
1724 | Where the devil is the kraal Jazi? |
1724 | Where, then, is the Opener of Roads? |
1724 | Where, where? |
1724 | Which way, Baas? |
1724 | Which way? |
1724 | Who are these? |
1724 | Who are they that dare to enter the Black Kloof unannounced? |
1724 | Who are you, White Man? |
1724 | Who can betray me when none know whither I am going? |
1724 | Who else? 1724 Who gave you leave to enter here, and what is your business?" |
1724 | Who is it that you see? 1724 Who knows where you will be in eighteen months? |
1724 | Who sends a message by your lips for me, and what are the words of the message? |
1724 | Who shot you? |
1724 | Who then poisoned you, King? |
1724 | Who was killed and who killed him? |
1724 | Who was that doll, Zikali? |
1724 | Why are they afraid? |
1724 | Why did it depress you? |
1724 | Why did you send Nombe? |
1724 | Why do you come here, Macumazahn? |
1724 | Why do you lie to me, Zikali? |
1724 | Why do you mock me, Macumazahn? 1724 Why do you play at sticks( i.e., fence) with me, Zikali, seeing that neither of us are children?" |
1724 | Why do you say that? |
1724 | Why has the Opener of Roads been brought from the Black Kloof which he has not left for years? 1724 Why not?" |
1724 | Why should I not choose it,went on Zikali,"seeing also that this place is holy to me? |
1724 | Why was he afraid? |
1724 | Why? 1724 Why?" |
1724 | Will Cetewayo refuse, Zikali? |
1724 | Will I forbid the mist to rise, or the wind to blow, or the lightning to strike? 1724 Would n''t whited sepulchre be a better term, especially as it seems to cover dead men''s bones?" |
1724 | Would you know the spear if it fell? |
1724 | Would you know, King? 1724 Yes, Noma, it might be yours, it is of the right size, but how can I be sure? |
1724 | Yes, Sir, and why not? 1724 Yes,"cried Zikali,"but what was it that caused the cut? |
1724 | You know well that he lives, Macumazahn, for how could he die till his work was accomplished? 1724 You lost your Spirit, did you?" |
1724 | You need no magic to tell you that, doctoress,I remarked,"but where did you see my picture?" |
1724 | You think he really knows, Goza? |
1724 | _ Dead!_ Where did you see them dead? |
1724 | A thought struck me, and I asked--"Is there any place here where your father locked up things? |
1724 | A very good way of settling, was n''t it?" |
1724 | After all, in what way is he better than the scores of other hunters and Kaffir traders and wanderers whom one meets in this strange land?" |
1724 | After all, of what have I to be afraid? |
1724 | Also, what could he do with but a few servants, for the most of his people are away with the cattle? |
1724 | Am I a prophet that I should be able to say which it is? |
1724 | And after all, what was more likely in the circumstances? |
1724 | And at this thought my heart sank-- why was she here in this most inappropriate meeting- place, alone? |
1724 | And did he find others of the same sort?" |
1724 | And if defeat should take everything from me, even my life perhaps, then what shall I have gained? |
1724 | And supposing it were so much as breathed that this spirit which they seemed to see, had been but a trick and a fraud, what then? |
1724 | And what does the King offer to me? |
1724 | Anscombe?" |
1724 | Are these good omens, Councillors? |
1724 | Are we to fight the English, or are we to sit still?" |
1724 | As the issue proved, this was a terrible mistake, but who can always judge rightly? |
1724 | At length an awed voice, I think it was that of Dabulamanzi, asked--"What is this plan, Inyanga? |
1724 | At what then do you gaze so hard?" |
1724 | But are these all the soldiers of the English? |
1724 | But are you interested in geology?" |
1724 | But how can I disband the army and make an end of the regiments that have conquered in so many wars? |
1724 | But how can I kill them, I asked of my Spirit, and myself escape death? |
1724 | But how was I to guess all these things at that time? |
1724 | But how, how?" |
1724 | But if so he said nothing of it, but only asked--"Will you go instead of me?" |
1724 | But the question is, how can you marry her?" |
1724 | But the question is-- how? |
1724 | But then why did he make the suggestion that I should be commanded to fire at this figure? |
1724 | But what does it matter now?" |
1724 | But what has she to say?" |
1724 | But what is to be done about Nombe? |
1724 | But what of that?" |
1724 | But what was the end of it? |
1724 | But what was the use of thinking? |
1724 | But who can hold the army which shouts for war? |
1724 | But why did you keep them prisoner?" |
1724 | But why do you ask?" |
1724 | But why do you wonder?" |
1724 | But wo n''t you come up to the house? |
1724 | But would she kindly explain? |
1724 | But, Macumazahn, if she met you both at the same time why did she not choose you?" |
1724 | Ca n''t we take the other road to Pilgrim''s Rest and Lydenburg, or to Barberton?" |
1724 | Can I help it if they kill you after I have warned you to turn back?" |
1724 | Can the dead make soup?" |
1724 | Can you give me any help? |
1724 | Can you tell me of any boats running from Durban to India? |
1724 | Cetewayo caught me by the arm, saying--"Tell us, are the lips of the dead witch warm or cold?" |
1724 | Come hither and tell me, have you no kiss for one from whom you parted with a kiss?" |
1724 | Come to the fire, Noma, and let us look; the moonlight is faint, is it not?" |
1724 | Could Heda be married to Anscombe at once? |
1724 | Could I take her away and put her under the protection of the Court at Pretoria? |
1724 | Could the thing be faced out? |
1724 | Could they elope? |
1724 | Could we keep ahead of them for that half hour? |
1724 | Did she wear a necklace of blue beads?" |
1724 | Did you not hear it speaking in the thatch, O King?" |
1724 | Did you not ride through the Zulus who parted this way and that before you, shouting what you could not understand? |
1724 | Did you not say last night that he is a leopard who leaps out in the dark, bites and is gone again?" |
1724 | Did you see the Opener of Roads, Goza, and if so, what is his answer to my message?" |
1724 | Do I make myself clear?" |
1724 | Do n''t you agree, Maurice?" |
1724 | Do n''t you remember I told you I should kill a man in this place and about a woman?" |
1724 | Do n''t you think we should stop?" |
1724 | Do they hear that if she will not come to my beckoning, then the great Zulu people must put a yoke upon their shoulders and be as slaves? |
1724 | Do you like life here better than that in the Guards? |
1724 | Do you not know my case that you offend my ears with them? |
1724 | Do you think me mad or wicked, or both, that I should do this thing?" |
1724 | Do you understand? |
1724 | Do you understand?" |
1724 | Do you understand?" |
1724 | Does he remember it, I wonder? |
1724 | Does not Sigananda yonder know the voice which amongst all those present echoes in his ears alone?" |
1724 | Even if I were believed, this far- seeing wizard held hostages for my good behaviour, and if I betrayed him what would happen to those hostages? |
1724 | For the rest, is Nomkubulwana my servant to come and go at my bidding?" |
1724 | Further, how could she be deceived on such a point? |
1724 | Gold was too much to pay for a bottle of gin, tobacco was too little, but how about the stone? |
1724 | Had he not told me as much years ago, and was he one to go back upon his word? |
1724 | Had it been otherwise, for example, I should have been--""What would you have been?" |
1724 | Has not such a one as I the power to make a fat fool think that she saw what she did not see? |
1724 | Have some coffee, wo n''t you?" |
1724 | Have they not yet learned their lesson?" |
1724 | He did not see us, but he caught sight of you and said testily--"Are you mad?" |
1724 | He paused, then turning to Goza, asked,"Did the Opener of Roads tell you where he wished to dwell when he comes to visit me here at Ulundi?" |
1724 | He paused, turning one ear upwards, then continued in a new and tender voice,"What is it you say to me, Noma, my dear little Noma? |
1724 | He stroked his long beard and looked at us, for by now he had dismounted, then said--"Might I ask you gentlemen your names?" |
1724 | Here I have sat while the moon climbs high and counted, and what do I find? |
1724 | Horse accident?" |
1724 | How about that skull which you kissed in the Vale of Bones?" |
1724 | How about the woman on the rock that the Zulus thought was their Princess of the Heavens? |
1724 | How are you going to do it? |
1724 | How can I prove to you that this is not another cheat like to that of the spirit of Mameena whom the white man, her lover, did not know again? |
1724 | How can one know without a post- mortem? |
1724 | How can you ask me such a thing? |
1724 | How did it happen,"he went on with gathering force,"that the white men caught me in the secret place where you told me I should hide? |
1724 | How did it pass from your keeping into the hand of a spirit?" |
1724 | How had it been called? |
1724 | How then, how? |
1724 | How was I to know that these were true? |
1724 | I ask you, Macumazahn, who are his friend, what does he mean, and why should I not kill him and be done?" |
1724 | I bethought me of coming to you, but without arms how could you help? |
1724 | I cried exasperated,"and tell me, where are your mistress and the Heer Anscombe?" |
1724 | I do n''t look like a criminal, do I? |
1724 | I exclaimed,"do you fear mortification?" |
1724 | I finished it very well, did n''t I? |
1724 | I might perhaps if I mounted behind him and the horse could bear us both, which was doubtful, but how about our poor servants? |
1724 | I remember now, she was called Mameena, was she not, a name taken from the wailing of the wind? |
1724 | I repeat, what are you driving at? |
1724 | I repeated after him, adding,"Why not call it hell''s broth at once?" |
1724 | I sent her down, but how was she named, Macumazahn? |
1724 | I stared at him, wondering what he could mean, whereon he added with a laugh--"What is that in your pocket? |
1724 | I studied her for a while, then asked--"Why do you not marry, Nombe, and have a husband, and children to love?" |
1724 | I tried to think the thing out and could not, so only asked--"How did I come? |
1724 | I whistled and asked,"How will our Boer friends take it? |
1724 | I wonder if she cares for him?" |
1724 | I wonder what became of them? |
1724 | If he beats them with too thick a stick, or if he brings them to shame or does what the most of them do not wish, then where is the king? |
1724 | If you were a doctor you would know that all these things come to us with our blood, and we did n''t fashion our own clay, did we? |
1724 | If you''re afraid of him, why do n''t you kill him?" |
1724 | In this curious condition of mind it seemed to me that Rodd said to Marnham--"Why have you brought these men here?" |
1724 | Is anyone truly bad, I wondered, or for the matter of that, truly good either? |
1724 | Is he a temperate man?" |
1724 | Is he the king? |
1724 | Is it a bargain?" |
1724 | Is it a scraper?" |
1724 | Is it not a loaded pistol, and do you not remember that it is death to appear before the king armed? |
1724 | Is it not a proverb in the land from the time of the slaying of Bangu when you gave the cattle you had earned to Saduko''s wanderers?" |
1724 | Is it not all a question of circumstance and blood? |
1724 | Is it not so?" |
1724 | Is it not that he may give us counsel in our need and show us a sign that his counsel is good, whether it be for war or peace? |
1724 | Is it your desire that I should draw water from this fount of wisdom, O King and Councillors?" |
1724 | Is she not my pupil whom I have trained from a child? |
1724 | Is there a hat upon my head that you can not see the colour of my hair, and is it natural that youth should turn to age?" |
1724 | Is this a time for fine words? |
1724 | It is so long ago, and what does it matter? |
1724 | It is--''What says the Opener of Roads?'' |
1724 | Macumazahn, you dreamed a dream, did you not, lying asleep in the house that was built of white stone which now is black with fire? |
1724 | Marnham?" |
1724 | Marnham?" |
1724 | Marnham?" |
1724 | Moreover, if they saw a white woman who had sheltered with me, might they not guess something? |
1724 | My partner and I are labour agents, we recruit natives for the Kimberley Mines,"he said in explanation, adding,"Where do you propose to shoot?" |
1724 | No, not complete,"I added, looking towards Anscombe who was following on the tired horse a few paces behind,"for you knew his father, did you not?" |
1724 | Now I jumped up, filled with indignation, saying--"I do not believe in Nombe''s spells, and in any case how am I to guard against them?" |
1724 | Now I might kill you and have no blame, although you are my guest, for who knows that you are not sent by the English Queen to shoot me?" |
1724 | Now if you want to keep out of trouble, tell me-- whence came it into the hands of that man, Karl?" |
1724 | Now tell me, Opener of Roads, how did it pass from your keeping into that of the spirit Nomkubulwana?" |
1724 | Now that I know there is nothing the matter with my father I''m-- But, tell me, how did you get your wound?" |
1724 | Now what exactly does he trade in, I wonder? |
1724 | Now what was to be done? |
1724 | Oh, my dear Quatermain, have you never been taught to look to the pence and let the rest take care of itself?" |
1724 | On the earth or under it? |
1724 | Or-- or am I in truth that Mameena, whose kiss thrills your lips and soul? |
1724 | Ought I to let him go or not? |
1724 | Please continue-- but one word, how was Nombe dressed? |
1724 | Quatermain?" |
1724 | Quatermain?" |
1724 | Quatermain?" |
1724 | Quatermain?" |
1724 | Run for it? |
1724 | Say, how do you do it, Zikali?" |
1724 | Shall we stop?" |
1724 | She found you once, did she not? |
1724 | She is not beautiful, is she, although she has dipped her head in milk to make herself look white?" |
1724 | Should I or should I not tell him and beg his protection for them? |
1724 | Should I take the westerly road which ran over a great plain? |
1724 | So I just folded my arms and, looking up at him, said--"Why, Black Man?" |
1724 | So I merely remarked, without showing surprise--"So Zikali still lives, does he? |
1724 | So I returned to my wagon and lay down in it exhausted, for what more could I do? |
1724 | So, so, what does it matter since we must meet at last, even if you hide yourself at the back of the furthest star? |
1724 | Something will certainly happen, but the point is-- what? |
1724 | Tell me now, is it possible for the dead to appear?" |
1724 | Tell me then, Macumazahn, you whose heart is honest, what must I do?" |
1724 | Tell me, why did they behave thus, and what did they shout?" |
1724 | Tell me, will you command Nombe to cease from her folly?" |
1724 | The Basutos attacked you at daybreak, did they not?" |
1724 | The first matter is, if there be war between the White and Black, what will happen in that war? |
1724 | The question is-- what must the Zulus do? |
1724 | The question is-- what will be the line of the Boers themselves? |
1724 | The teeth? |
1724 | Then an idea struck me and I added,"I suppose no harm will come to Nombe, who might be thought to know too much?" |
1724 | Then calming himself with an effort added,"Tell me now, where shall I hide?" |
1724 | They stopped hunting you when they got to the Yellow- wood swamp where our land begins, did they not?" |
1724 | This he could not do according to our law, since how can a stranger name the King of the Zulus? |
1724 | To call to the guard for help seemed indiscreet, for who knew what those fools might say? |
1724 | To which you answered with a laugh--"I hope not more than usual, Sir, but why?" |
1724 | Was it this gulf, think you, or another? |
1724 | Was such a thing possible, I wondered? |
1724 | Well, what have I to do with all this? |
1724 | Were you expecting us?" |
1724 | What I tell to you is true, is it not so?" |
1724 | What are you driving at?" |
1724 | What did I say, a king? |
1724 | What did she say and do?" |
1724 | What did they think either of the serpent coiled about the bole of this tree of knowledge whereof they had just plucked the ripe and maddening fruit? |
1724 | What did you say about the place that I have chosen? |
1724 | What do you come to seek from the Opener of Roads? |
1724 | What do you mean?" |
1724 | What dog? |
1724 | What had I learned? |
1724 | What happened to me?" |
1724 | What is it that my ears hear? |
1724 | What is it you say? |
1724 | What is the matter on which you would speak to me?" |
1724 | What is the name of the architect who designed that most romantic- looking house of yours which seems to be built of marble?" |
1724 | What stone? |
1724 | What then was I to do? |
1724 | What then was to be done? |
1724 | What was it I had to say to you? |
1724 | What was the use since Heda would not listen to them, and at that time Anscombe was nothing but her echo? |
1724 | What was to be done? |
1724 | What would Sekukuni say if we let him escape to bring the Swazis on us? |
1724 | When last we parted did I not prophesy to you that we should meet again at the bottom of a gulf? |
1724 | When you have been summoned from a long way off and travelled post- haste, rather to your own inconvenience, it is amusing, is n''t it?" |
1724 | Where are Saduko and Mameena and the rest? |
1724 | Where are those with whom you used to company, Macumazahn? |
1724 | Where has the king gone?" |
1724 | Where is she?" |
1724 | Where shall we meet again, I wonder? |
1724 | Which then is it to be, Yes or No? |
1724 | Who and what was I that I should dare to arraign and pass sentence upon this man who after all had suffered many wrongs? |
1724 | Who are these little men who sit before you? |
1724 | Who has the fire sent to be my shield? |
1724 | Who is it? |
1724 | Who knows? |
1724 | Who knows? |
1724 | Who pointed out that hidden hole to the white men? |
1724 | Who thinks anything of dreams?" |
1724 | Who wanted stones? |
1724 | Who, who of all that you have slain and who therefore are your foes?" |
1724 | Why did Zikali call him Mauriti?" |
1724 | Why do you bring me up to this place where I see some whom I would forget? |
1724 | Why exactly had he beguiled me to Zululand? |
1724 | Why not go to him and tell him your trouble?" |
1724 | Why not try some other ground, to the north of the Transvaal, for instance?" |
1724 | Why should he not have done so, seeing that it was my presence he had desired, not theirs? |
1724 | Why then should I not choose it to meet the last king of the Zulus?" |
1724 | Why trouble about the dead when there are so many to be sent to join them? |
1724 | Would it not have been better to tell those Basutos to let them trek on to Pretoria?" |
1724 | Would it turn over? |
1724 | Would that have happened in the time of Chaka?" |
1724 | You are one of that people, Macumazahn,"he added, turning his massive shape towards me,"tell us now, how many soldiers has your Queen?" |
1724 | You felt it, did you not?" |
1724 | You felt nothing in the spiritual line?" |
1724 | Your second is-- was this spirit or woman or shadow, that of her whom I remember meeting in Zululand many years ago? |
1724 | Zikali, gazing at the sky, waited till it had died away, then went on--"Do any question my words? |
1724 | asked Zikali when Nombe and the others had gone,"that the White Dogs are on the spoor of the Black Bull?" |
1724 | ca n''t you understand, Quatermain, that sometimes men find themselves forced into strange situations against their will?" |
1724 | do you defy me, White Man? |
1724 | he asked, looking at me,"and what do you here?" |
1724 | he exclaimed,"do these dirty Basuto dogs dare to carry spears so near our country? |
1724 | he laughed,"who am I that I can tell how such things happen? |
1724 | he said again,"who will tell her? |
1724 | that was a great game I played in the Vale of Bones, was it not, Macumazahn?" |
1724 | they talk of the eyes of women, but are they ever as beautiful as those of a loving dog? |
1724 | why do n''t I kill you as I shall some day?" |
1724 | why on earth did you come here?" |
1724 | witch- doctor) here?" |