I dreamed that thou and I stood together on a star and looked down on the world, and thou wast as a spirit, for light flamed through thy flesh, but I could not see what was the fashon of mine own face. The hour has come for us, old hunter. So be it. We have had our time, but I would that in it I had seen some more such tights as yesterday's. 'Let them bury me after the fashion of my people, Macumazahn, and set my eyes towards Zululand ;' and he took my hand and shook it, and then turnpd to face the advancing foe. Just then, to my astonishment, the Zu-Vendi officer Kara clambered over our improvised wall in his quiet, deter mined sort of way, and took his stand by the Zulu, unsheathing' his sword ; as he did so. 'What, comest thou too? laughed out the old warrior. ' Welcome-fa welcome to thee, brave heart ! Ow ! for the man who can die like a man ; Ow for the death grip and the ringing of steel. Ow ! we are ready. We wet our beaks like' eagles, our spears flash in the sun j we shake pur assegais, and ai'e hungry for fight. WJio comes to give greeting, to the Chieftainess • [Inkosi-kaas] I ; Who would ; taste her. kiss,. whereof the fifuit is death! I,' the Woodpecker, I, the Slaughterer; I' the Swiftfooted 1 I,' Umslopogaas, iof. the tribe of Maquilisini,df the: people, of Amaznlu, a. captain of the regiment of the Nkomabakosi : I, Umslopogaas, the son of Tndabazimbi, the son of Arpi the son of Mosilikaatze, I of - the royal blood of T'Chaka, I of the king's house, I the Ringed Man, I the Induna, I call to them as a buck calls, I challenge them, I await them. 