rfr JIM MAKOKEL' was Jock's ally and champion. 

 There was a great deal to like and something 

 to admire in Jim ; but, taking him all round, 

 I am very much afraid that most people would 

 consider him rather a bad lot. The fact of 

 the matter is he belonged to another period and 

 other conditions. He was simply a great passionate 

 fighting savage, and, instead of wearing the cast-off 

 clothing of the white man and peacefully driving 

 bullock waggons along a transport road, should 

 have been decked in his savage finery of leopard skin 

 and black ostrich feathers, showing off the powerful 

 bronzed limbs and body all alive with muscle, and 

 sharing in some wild war-dance ; or, equipped with 

 shield and assegais, leading in some murderous fight. 

 Yes, Jim was out of date : he should have been one 

 of the great Chaka's fighting guard to rise as a leader 

 of men, or be killed on the way. He had but one 

 argument and one answer to everything : Fight ! It 

 was his nature, bred and born in him ; it ran in his 

 blood and grew in his bones. He was a survival of 



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