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'I'm a native of Africa, as you are. And the slaves must work for you during the first four years, so they can move in an orderly way into their freedom. Indeed, he gave me for our mission one of the finest pieces of land in his capital city and sent his own soldiers to help me build it. ke again, he learned to his disgust that Ryk Nau& had not crossed the Drakensberg but had encamped some miles away.

' And once more the boy symbolized the contradictions in which nations and people find themselves, for he said, 'Mrs. he had leap-frogged the Boer republics and thrown his own pioneer column deep into Matabeleland, where Mzilikazi's son was overrun. 'Mzilikazi!' shouted the warriors, rushing at the small concen- 572 tration of wagons, expecting to overrun it. If, as some fear, any rational solution becomes impossible because the stubborn Afrikaner refuses to yield any o