"And so I tell you now to ride north, Macumazahn, for there you will
find great happiness--yes, and great sorrow. But no man should run away
from happiness because of the sorrow. As you will, as you will!"
Again I looked at him. In his divinations I did not believe, yet I came
to the conclusion that he was speaking what he knew to be the truth. It
struck me as possible that he might have heard of some white man living
like a hermit in the wilds, but preferring to keep up his prophetic
character would not say so.
"Very well, Indaba-zimbi," I said, "let us ride north."
Shortly after we started, the river we had followed hitherto turned
off in a westerly direction, so we left it. All that day we rode across
rolling uplands, and about an hour before sunset halted at a little
stream which ran down from a range of hills in front of us. By this time
I was heartily tired of the biltong, so taking my elephant rifle--for I
had nothing else--I left Tota with Indaba-zimbi, and started to try if I
could shoot something. Oddly enough we had seen no game all the day, nor
did we see any on the subsequent days.
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