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In League With Magic

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Parent Issue
Day
19
Month
August
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
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Lobengula, the late king of the Matabele of South África, was afraid of Rev. E. Carnegie, an English missionary at Hope Fountain, several miles from Bulawayo. The Matabele warriors, on the other hand, looked with suspicion on the missionary and all his works, but they knew better than to molest the friend of their king. Time after time in passing the mission house they noticed a forcé pump at work, supplying water for the family and for irrigatiug the garden. Not understanding what it was for, their uatutored minds concluded it was some eort of magie. It was "intagati, " or bewitched, and they watched to see how it was managed that they might turn the white man's magie against himself. One moonlightnightapartyof picked warriors repaired to the bank of the sfeream where the pump was. On trying it they were jubilant to flnd that two men at either handle could do the trick. Turn and turn about they kept the pump going for two honrs, determined that the missionary should have all the magie he wanted and a balance in hand. Then, exhausted, they went homeward, ignorant of the fact that they had filled the missionary's tank to overflowing. His good wife hoped that a similar supply of "magie" might be

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News