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An hour later two discreet messengers were bounding across the plains,
bearing words from the Chief Maputa, the Warden of the Border, to the
"great Black Elephant" at Ulundi.
CHAPTER V
THE DOOM POOL
Fortune showed itself strangely favourable to the plans of Nahoon and
Nanea. One of the Zulu captain's perplexities was as to how he should
lull the suspicions and evade the vigilance of his own companions, who
together with himself had been detailed by the king to assist Hadden in
his hunting and to guard against his escape. As it chanced, however, on
the day after the incident of the visit of Maputa, a messenger arrived
from no less a person than the great military Induna, Tvingwayo ka
Marolo, who afterwards commanded the Zulu army at Isandhlwana, ordering
these men to return to their regiment, the Umcityu Corps, which was to
be placed upon full war footing. Accordingly Nahoon sent them, saying
that he himself would follow with Black Heart in the course of a few
days, as at present the white man was not sufficiently recovered from
his hurts to allow of his travelling fast and far.
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