They call him 'He-who-never-Sleeps.' They say that he has the courage of a lioness with young--he who got away when Dingaan killed Piti [Retief] and the Boers; they say that he is quick and cunning as a snake, and that Panda and his great indunas think more of him than of any white man they know.

He is unmarried also, though they say, too, that twice he had a wife, who died, and now he does not turn to look at women, which is strange in any man, and shows that he will escape trouble and succeed.

Still, it must be remembered that they are all ugly down here in Zululand, cows, or heifers who will be cows.

Piff! no more." She paused for a little while, then went on in her dreamy, reflective voice: "Now, if he met a woman who is not merely a cow or a heifer, a woman cleverer than himself, even if she were not white, I wonder--" At this point I thought it well to wake up.

Turning my head I yawned, opened my eyes and looked at her vaguely, seeing which her expression changed in a flash from that of brooding power to one of moved and anxious girlhood; in short, it became most sweetly feminine.
"You are Mameena ?" I said; "is it not so ?" "Oh, yes, Inkoosi," she answered, "that is my poor name.