114 MATABELE LAND. 
Lee told the king it was for him to punish it. The 
two indunas present seized the boy, and he was 
half throttled, and much knocked about. They 
would have killed him there and then, had it been 
Lee's wish. The king said, 'Is he to be thrown 
out ? ' which means put to death. Lee, however, 
said he should be satisfied by the boy being tied 
up, which was done. . . . Went with Lee to 
the kind's afterwards. More drenching- was o-oinof 
on. I saw the boy tied up ; he could neither sit 
nor stand, but squatted on the ground, his arms 
nearly on the full stretch, fastened on either side to one 
of the poles that support the large wooden structures 
on which meat is piled. When the sun set Lee was 
told, if he did not give the word to have the boy 
taken away, he would rot where he was. The king 
and the indunas then chaffed the poor wretch, as, 
Lee having consented, he was cut down. He was 
told that he had been kicking Mosilikatze's bones. 
" The scene, with the king sitting on his front- 
box, would make a picture : the setting sun ; the dark 
green trees beyond the kraal, and the green walls of 
the newly - erected kraal ; the yellow beehive-like 
huts ; the yellowish trodden grass in the space ; the 
herds of goats and sheep, with lambs and kids, and 
pack of dogs, crowding round the king's waggon; the 
group of natives, some all but naked, some adorned 
with feathers, some with a single article of European 
dress, as a hat, crouching on their haunches, forming 
the court of the black king; tusks of ivory lying 
about. To complete the picture, a white trader or 
