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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: did to find the king seated on the shady side of his big hut
quite alone. At a sign I also sat myself down upon a stool that
had been set for me, while Goza, whose nose was still bleeding,
squatted at my side.
"Your manners are not so good as they were once, Macumazahn,"
said Cetewayo presently, "or perhaps you have been so long away
from the royal kraal that you have forgotten its customs."
I stared at him, wondering what he could mean, whereon he added
with a laugh--
"What is that in your pocket? Is it not a loaded pistol, and do
you not remember that it is death to appear before the king
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