Pepys, who, I think, lived in the reign of Charles II, and who, to
judge from his memoirs, which I have read lately, did not write for
publication, I should have to admit that there is another side to my
nature. I sternly suppress it, however, at any rate for the present.
While we were at breakfast Hans who, still suffering from headache and
remorse, was lurking outside the gateway far from the madding crowd of
critics, crept in like a beaten dog and announced that Babemba was
approaching followed by a number of laden soldiers. I was about to
advance to receive him. Then I remembered that, owing to a queer
native custom, such as that which caused Sir Theophilus Shepstone,
whom I used to know very well, to be recognised as the holder of the
spirit of the great Chaka and therefore as the equal of the Zulu
monarchs, Brother John was the really important man in our company. So
I gave way and asked him to be good enough to take my place and to
live up to that station in savage life to which it had pleased God to
call him.
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