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He sent for Tulare. Although Tulare's huiuiias advised 

 him not to go — lest he should be murdered — he went out in the 

 night, with three men only, dressed in an humble-looking kaross. 

 with a cap made of cattle-skin. When he arrived it was still 

 dark. Nobody there knew of his having come. The old Chief 

 was very glad to see him, and said : " Be not afraid, my son 

 Molamosu is only a mouse." Early in the morning Mampuru 

 dressed him in his jackal"' s kaross, with his hat of jackal's-skin, 

 and told him to go to the council-place and to sit down on his 

 (Mampuru's) throne of buffalo-horns. Meantime all the men 

 were called to this place by the old man. When the men 

 arrived they found Tulare sitting on Mampuru's throne. Mola- 

 moso rose and told the men: " Greet the Chief there." All said : 

 "' Morena, Morena ! " He only answered with the usual "Age! " 

 and after a little while went back to Mampuru's house. Mam- 

 puru said to Tulare: "When I am dead — even when buried — 

 exhume my body, bring me to our old home and bury me there 

 My son. if my people steal your cattle, don't kill them. Kill 

 them, if they have killed somebody." Then Tulare went home. 

 Not many days after a man from Magakel came to tell him : 

 " Mampuru is dead ; we have buried him."* Tulare went with 

 many men, exhumed him, and took him to their old home at the 

 Mogokgoma-tree, where he buried him. 



The Magakal men were angry, and went out with a >tnmg 

 commando, and burnt many little kraals of Tulare's people at 

 the lower Steelpoort. Tulare, with his impi, went round the 

 Mount Moroni, and came upon them from behind. Tulare 

 oamped at the tree. Magakal's men, from this side Steelpoort, 

 crossed the river to attack Tulare. They fought. Very s< m m 

 Tulare drove them back and followed them, but not to their 

 home. His instructions were not to kill all of Mampuru's chil- 

 dren. All the big Chiefs and Indunas were killed, except Mola- 

 moso (the least amongst them) and Mogase. These were 

 caught and hidden away during the fight, so that Tulare's men 

 might not kill them, not knowing them. Xo guard was left with 

 them. Later, both came out and went home. Tulare sent his 

 men to take the cattle. Molamoso, with all his people and his 

 many auxiliaries from the Baroka, fled across Olifants River, 

 and settled at the Mo'lapitsi River, where, only during the last 

 year, 1900, the greater part crossed back, and now are settled at 

 Surbiton. They did not ask for peace from Tulare, and he no 

 more molests them because of old Mampuru. 



Now the Matebele tribe of Zebediela, with Mapahlele, made 

 an arrangement in secret with Magakal to this effect: "Tulare is 

 too great for us at his home. Let us go and deceive him, telling 

 him that there are many herds of cattle far away in Zoutpans- 

 berg— and when he is there, all tribes together fall upon him 

 and kill him." 



The Natives bury at once after death has taken place. 



