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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Marie by H. Rider Haggard: who by your magic can snatch his prey out of the hand of the greatest
king in all the world--for it was magic that killed those vultures on
Hloma Amabutu, not your bullets, Macumazahn--say, why should I not make
an end of you at once for this trick?"
I folded my arms and looked at him. A strange contrast we must have
made, this huge, black tyrant with the royal air, for to do him justice
he had that, at whose nod hundreds went the way of death, and I, a mere
insignificant white boy, for in appearance, at any rate, I was nothing
more.
"O Dingaan," I said coolly, knowing that coolness was my only chance, "I
answer you in the words of the Commandant Retief, the great chief. Do
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