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The Ivory Child

CHAPTER VIII
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I think that is all, Baas.

Let the Baas and the Lord Igeza forgive me if my words are foolish." Here I should explain that "Igeza" was the name which the natives had given to Lord Ragnall because of his appearance.

The word means a handsome person in the Zulu tongue.

Savage they called "Bena," I don't know why.

"Bena" in Zulu means to push out the breast and it may be that the name was a round-about allusion to the proud appearance of the dignified Savage, or possibly it had some other recondite signification.
At any rate Lord Ragnall, Hans and myself knew the splendid Savage thenceforward by the homely appellation of Beans.


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