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Whatever decisions he made must be for the security of the clan, and chiefs before him had learned that even the slightest infringement of law had best be dealt with immediately. He was barefooted, of course, and carried in his hands only two things: his massive shield almost as tall as himself and pur ' It would be intolerable to tell him now that the stone masterpiece was not Phoenician. In the first days of their trek they had encountered small groups of blacks and a few Coloureds,

'I've known everything you've said. ld man, but one of the complainants said with some force, 'This won't be Majuba or untrained Uitlanders. They did ransack his quarters. 'He was a fighter,' Desai mumbled, recalling this contentious man who had defied the entire white establishment.