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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: happened upon the earth. These replies I will give but no
others, since the mortal strength that I have borrowed returns
whence it came. The first matter is, if there be war between the
White and Black, what will happen in that war? I see a plain
ringed round with hills and on it a strange-shaped mount. I see
a great battle; I see the white men go down like corn before a
tempest; I see the spears of the impis redden; I see the white
soldiers lie like leaves cut from a tree by frost. They are
dead, all dead, save a handful that have fled away. I hear the
ingoma of victory sung here at Ulundi. It is finished.
"The second matter is--what shall chance to the king? I see him
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