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[Ndaba who hunts forests]
Athi gqigqi gqigqi gqigqi,
[Saying gqigqi gqigqi gqigqi]
Nonyaka akunyamazane.
[The year has unnumbered bucks]
Amlandulela ngentshintsho yempunzikazi.
[Denying him through suckles ofantelope]
Uhlakanyana obanga izulu ukubalela,
[The slab that causes sunshine]
Unamanga kodwa, hlakanyana; ulibangile "18
[You are lying, Slab, you caused it]
Cope, however, gave the best description ofNdaba's praises:
"He who hunted the forests until they murmured,
Until eventually they cried: "Enough! Isn't it? "
Who when he lay down was the size ofrivers,
Who when he got up was that ofmountains,
Precious little amulet ofourpeople, ofGcabashe. '09
Ndaba was succeeded by lama in 1771 who built his homestead,
Nobamba (the place of unity or binding together), near the Mpembeni
stream. 20
lama had two WIves, the chief of whom was Mthaniya, daughter of
Manyelela of the Sibiya clan. Mthaniya begot twin girls, i.e. Mkabayi
and Mmama, as well as a boy named Senzangakhona and finally a girl,
Mawa. 21 The three daughters oflama became heads ofharems in the
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Ibid-, p. 39.
T. Cope: lzibongo - Zulu praise poems, p. 72.
K.c., Stuart Papers, File 9, Notebook 3, Evidence of Mtsbayankomo, 11 January 1922.
A.T. Bryant: Olden Times in Zululand and Natal, p. 40.