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... Ngonyama ( Lion ) , and to him Shaka went with his problem . Ngonyama was both smelter and blacksmith and like all his brother- hood he had his kraal in a wild and lonely part of the countryside . All the people shunned the locality in ...
... Ngonyama ( Lion ) , and to him Shaka went with his problem . Ngonyama was both smelter and blacksmith and like all his brother- hood he had his kraal in a wild and lonely part of the countryside . All the people shunned the locality in ...
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... Ngonyama squatted , idle but tense , by the forge . And Shaka understood that he awaited The Nameless One . The coming of this purveyor of power was announced by a low and mournful two - note howl which caused Ngonyama to start and his ...
... Ngonyama squatted , idle but tense , by the forge . And Shaka understood that he awaited The Nameless One . The coming of this purveyor of power was announced by a low and mournful two - note howl which caused Ngonyama to start and his ...
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... Ngonyama explained it to him , for were these not the beliefs he had imbibed with his mother's milk , as all his ancestors had before him ? It would be heresy to think otherwise . As the blade cooled the sizzling stopped , and Ngonyama ...
... Ngonyama explained it to him , for were these not the beliefs he had imbibed with his mother's milk , as all his ancestors had before him ? It would be heresy to think otherwise . As the blade cooled the sizzling stopped , and Ngonyama ...
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ZULULAND AND the ZULUS IN THE LATE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY I | 1 |
BIRTH AND EXILE II | 11 |
THE YOUNG SOLDIERPAMPATATHE ASSEGAI | 22 |
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