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'in. Clad in their war-dress, and. armed with assegai, shield, and 

 club, they gave a wonderful display, which is fully described in a 

 former article. 



Poor Lobengula, ailing at the time, was not able to appear in 

 his war-dress, nor indicate by the throwing of an assegai the 

 direction the next raid was to take, but he showed himself to his 

 warriors smeared with some hideous "medicine," which he and 

 his witch-doctors had prepared in the goat kraal. His remark 

 to us that he did not wish Europeans to come into his country, 

 fearing quarrels with his people, as " the white man will give his 

 soul for gold," proved more prophetic than perhaps he himself 

 then thought, for the Matabele War soon followed, costing many 

 lives, and the grand old man had to fly his country, and died 

 during the flight. 



UNWIN BROTHERS, LIMITED, THE GRESHAM PRESS, WOKING AND LONDON. 



