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Child of Storm

CHAPTER VII
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Still, they did not starve, since there were plenty of women to work the fields, and we had not touched their corn.

The end of them was that Panda gave them to their conqueror, Saduko, and he incorporated them with the Amangwane.

But that did not happen until some time afterwards.
When we had rested a while at the wagons the captured beasts were mustered, and on being counted were found to number a little over twelve hundred head, not reckoning animals that had been badly hurt in the flight, which we killed for beef.

It was a noble prize, truly, and, notwithstanding the wound in his thigh, which hurt him a good deal now that it had stiffened, Saduko stood up and surveyed them with glistening eyes.

No wonder, for he who had been so poor was now rich, and would remain so even after he had paid over whatever number of cows Umbezi chose to demand as the price of Mameena's hand.


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