t a month for the wago slowly to retrace their way to Thaba Nchu, where hundreds o Voortrekkers had assembled. did not presume to teach them, but whatever he did attempt carried a heavy overlay of moral instruction. Behind him the entourage rode in clouds of ust; t e wagons creaked; the grooms helped along the horses gone lame; and Mr. ' When Dingane was seated in his great chair he signaled, and sixteen of his brides were brought in to arrange themselves at his feet.
The effect was overwhelming, and s startled Dingane that he whispered to an attendant, 'These me are indeed wizards. ver; on the third morning he came upon a group of nine boys his own age, naked like him and herding cattle. They came in panoply, they fought in glory. mained of the old brown-and-gold Dutch crock that had been in the Van Doom family for generations.
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