Emma tells me your daughter is quite content, with two-or was it three?-lovely children. It must not be supposed that Mzilikazi and Shaka were person- ally responsible for all the Mfecane deaths. The Korean War had just ended, and Simon spoke proudly of the South African fighter planes in the Far East ' His speech was an amalgam of Texan, Aus- tralian and African diamond field; his manner, international- mine-field.
' Marius rose and went to the refrigerator for another beer. ' Now that Thetiwe had a baby, it was helpful to her for Nxumalo to take additional wives; Nxumalo, on his part, was made additionally beholden to his king. 'He explains everythin Detlev said enthusiastically, 'but sometimes I can't understa his words. Near them waited the wives who had accompanied their husbands, and in one tent Sybilla de Groot tended such men as were dragged to her impromptu hospital ward.
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