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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Marie by H. Rider Haggard: whether some of us were to be killed and some let free, or if all were
to be killed or let free, when we reached his House. Therefore he
commanded that "we should tie the oxen to the moving huts and cross the
river at once."
This was the end of that scene. Having no choice we inspanned and
continued our journey, escorted by the company of two hundred savages.
I am bound to say that during the four or five days that it took us to
reach Dingaan's kraal they behaved very well to us. With Kambula and
his officers, all of them good fellows in their way, I had many
conversations, and from them learned much as to the state and customs of
the Zulus. Also the peoples of the districts through which we passed
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