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Allan and the Holy Flower

CHAPTER XX
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Lastly, the angel who watches me brought you here in time before I was quite cooked through.

So all's well that ends well, Mr.Quatermain, though it is true that for my part I have had enough of bloody war, and if I live to regain civilized regions I propose henceforth to follow the art of food-dressing in the safe kitchen of an hotel; that is, if I cannot obtain a berth as an instructor in the English tongue!" "Yes," I answered, "all's well that ends well, Sammy my boy, and at any rate you have saved the stores, for which we should be thankful to you.
So go along with Mr.Stephen and get doctored while we haul them out of that grain-pit." Three days later we bid farewell to old Bausi, who almost wept at parting with us, and the Mazitu, who were already engaged in the re-building of their town.

Mavovo and the other Zulus who died in the Battle of the Gate, we buried on the ridge opposite to it, raising a mound of earth over them that thereby they might be remembered in generations to come, and laying around them the Mazitu who had fallen in the fight.

As we passed that mound on our homeward journey, the Zulus who remained alive, including two wounded men who were carried in litters, stopped and saluted solemnly, praising the dead with loud songs.

We white people too saluted, but in silence, by raising our hats.
By the way, I should add that in this matter also Mavovo's "Snake" did not lie.


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