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one." So Sikulokobuzuka went to look for it and showed him
all the medicines good for getting supplies of food, and also
that which gains a man the favour of his chief. Then
they parted. Mashambwa lost his way and wandered
about till evening, when he once more met the wax-
legged man. The latter guided him home to his village
and left him, telling him on no account to speak to any
one. So Mashambwa went into his hut and sat down on
the ground, and when his friends addressed him, he never
answered j and at last they said to each other: "He has
seen Sikulokobvzuka." Then he fell ill and remained so
for a year, never speaking throughout that time. At the end
of the year, he began to recover, and one day, seeing some
vultures hovering over a distant spot in the bush (this seems
to have been a sign that his probation was over), he said:
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Look! those are my vultures!
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and sent some men off to the
place. They found a buck freshly killed by a lion, and thence
forth Mashambwa never wanted for food or any other nec
essaries.
These half-men can scarcely be classed as ogres j but there
are various tribes of ogres having only one arm and one leg,
while others, though in various ways monstrous and abnormal, 18
have not this peculiarity. The Basuto call the former class
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of beings
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Matebele probably from having come to
look on their dreaded enemies, the Zulu tribe of that name, as
something scarcely human. The tale of Ntotwatsana relates
how, while a chief s daughter was out herding
the cattle on
the summer pastures, a whirlwind caught her up and carried
"
her to a village of the Matebele who had but one leg, one
arm, one ear and one eye." They married her to the son of
their chief, and, to prevent her escape, buried a pair of magic
horns in her hut. One night, she tried to run away, but the
horns cried out: