"So it came about that when I drew towards the kraal all the people of the kraal were gathered toge...
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the shadow of the spear that Chaka held in his hand, the same with which he had slain his mother an...
by fear, for I saw that if I did nothing death would swiftly end my doubts. Once, indeed, I bethoug...
that her foot was pierced with a thorn, she lingered till the other women had gone by. Then she cam...
Umslopogaas had taken, and after her leapt and ran the mad woman. Umslopogaas heard her cry. He tur...
prevailed upon a wife of my father, a woman of their own blood, to poison him. So she poisoned him ...
When all was ready, the king came out, followed by his indunas and by me. As he appeared, wrapped i...
with the club, perhaps so it shall grow gentle that your feet may pass it!' "I answered nothing to...
and with longing to avenge the terrors we had borne. The doomed slew the doomers, while from the ci...
dog-wolf which I had killed, and, taking my knife of iron, I began to skin it by the light of the m...
Now the lions were close to us; they came to the body of the second cub, that lay outside the fence...
sick woman, who lay asleep, might not wake and utter foolish words in her wandering. But the prayer...
idea of an ancestral spirit, or the spirit of an ancestor, to that of a god. In the case of an able...
Now, my father, I tell you that the marrow melted in my bones with terror, for if I undid the mat I...
How old am I? Nay, I do not know. Very, very old. Had Chaka lived he would have been as old as I.[2...