oil—Women as currency—Gin, gold, and cows pay for the picture rights—The "flu" strikes—Jennie, the "blaau app," and the peacocks' tails
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| I start for New York—The religious atmosphere on shipboard—"Flu" attacks the Javanese—The missionaries refuse to help—Sharks as scavengers—The little mother's end—Evils of liquor—Assembling our party in New York—Passage as freight—St. Lucia and a little excitement—The thin magistrate—Released on bail |
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| Obstinate stowaways—Free Town and a fight—Bay rum as a beverage—Sugden lets off smoke-bombs—Cape Town, a party, and some Anzacs—Oom Tuys advises haste—Through South Africa—Americans and Boers in Ermelo—A hurried visit to Swaziland for information—Mystery over the coronation—Royal gin for Labotsibeni—Debeseembie drinks and talks |
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| Outfitting for Swaziland—Our cook becomes "Gunga din"—Lomwazi's messenger—Off for Zombode—Rossman goes hunting—Too much rain—The oxen die and are replaced by donkeys—Sneaking liquor through Mbabane—Ezulweni mosquitoes rival New Jersey's—We are unpopular in Zombode—Manaan's damage suit and settlement |
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| Labotsibeni refuses to see me—Sugden and my men escape assassination—A fruitless conference—We flee to Lebombo—Oom Tuys turns up—We confer with Queen Tzaneen and Lochein—Five-and-ten-cent-store jewelry has persuasive powers—Sugden falls ill—We build his coffin—Sebuza returns from his sanctification |
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| L'Tunga's "muti" cures the sick white man—Sebuza chooses his wives—I receive a message from His Majesty's High Commissioner for Swaziland—A flying trip to Mbabane—The government refuses to sanction Sebuza's coronation—How witch-doctors smoke dagga |
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| Witch-doctors of Swaziland—How they brought a famine—L'Tunga's school of witch-doctoring—The "Poison Test" to settle ownership—The professional witch-doctor's equipment—L'Tunga decides a murder case—Some genuine cures |
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| Wearisome delay in coronation—War suggestions from Umzulek—My plan to bluff Labotsibeni—The bluff is called—A ticklish situation—Labotsibeni refuses to surrender the throne—Our demonstration fails—Night murders provoke war |
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| Lebombo threatened with attack—Tzaneen flies to us for protection—Victory for Sebuza—Labotsibeni's mysterious death—Lomwazi spared for execution later—Funeral sacrifice of the old Queen—Queen Tzaneen in state—We are forced to join the royal impi |
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| Our sanctification in exile—Hardships in the hills—Oom Tuys saves Lomwazi's life—The celebration—Lomwazi formally surrenders the throne—We are inducted into the royal impi—Mbabane sends for information—We escape through Portuguese territory to America |
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| Swazi mother carrying her babe |
Frontispiece |
| Map of Swaziland |
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| Map showing section of South Africa |
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| The result of the national sport |
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| Interior of military barracks |
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| Princesses and maid taking a morning bath |
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| Young princesses amiably engaged in hair-dressing |
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| Swazi girls |
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| Pudana, favorite to the old Queen Labotsibeni |
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| An actual combat in which the man on the left was slain |
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