If you wished it even you could sweep out Natal and make the whites there your subjects, too.

Or perhaps it would be safer to let them be, lest others should come across the green water to help them, and to strike northwards, where I am told there are great lands as rich and fair, in which none would dispute our sovereignty--" [*--Cannon were called "by-and-byes" by the natives, because when field-pieces first arrived in Natal inquisitive Kafirs pestered the soldiers to show them how they were fired.
The answer given was always "By-and-bye!" Hence the name .-- EDITOR] "But, Mameena," I gasped, for this girl's titanic ambition literally overwhelmed me, "surely you are mad! How would you do all these things ?" "I am not mad," she answered; "I am only what is called great, and you know well enough that I can do them, not by myself, who am but a woman and tied with the ropes that bind women, but with you to cut those ropes and help me.

I have a plan which will not fail.

But, Macumazahn," she added in a changed voice, "until I know that you will be my partner in it I will not tell it even to you, for perhaps you might talk--in your sleep, and then the fire in my breast would soon go out--for ever." "I might talk now, for the matter of that, Mameena." "No; for men like you do not tell tales of foolish girls who chance to love them.

But if that plan began to work, and you heard say that kings or princes died, it might be otherwise.