"Have you lost your best cow, or what ?" "No, my friend," I answered; "but you and another have lost your best cow." And word for word I repeated to him Mameena's message.

When I had finished really I thought that Umbezi was about to faint.
"Curses be on the head of this Mameena!" he exclaimed.

"Surely some evil spirit must have been her father, not I, and well was she called Child of Storm.[*] What shall I do now, Macumazahn?
Thanks be to my Spirit," he added, with an air of relief, "she is too far gone for me to try to catch her; also, if I did, Umbelazi and his soldiers would kill me." [*--That, if I have not said so already, was the meaning which the Zulus gave to the word "Mameena", although as I know the language I cannot get any such interpretation out of the name, I believe that it was given to her, however, because she was born just before a terrible tempest, when the wind wailing round the hut made a sound like the word "Ma-mee-na".

--A.

Q.] "And what will Saduko do if you don't ?" I asked.
"Oh, of course he will be angry, for no doubt he is fond of her.