Chapter XXI

OUR SANCTIFICATION IN EXILE--HARDSHIPS IN THE HILLS--OOM TUYS SAVES
LOMWAZI'S LIFE--THE CELEBRATION--LOMWAZI FORMALLY SURRENDERS THE
THRONE--WE ARE INDUCTED INTO THE ROYAL IMPI--MBABANE SENDS FOR
INFORMATION--WE ESCAPE THROUGH PORTUGUESE TERRITORY TO AMERICA 371

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Swazi mother carrying her babe _Frontispiece_
FACING PAGE

Map of Swaziland 32

Map showing section of South Africa 33

The result of the national sport 48

Interior of military barracks 49

Princesses and maid taking a morning bath 68

Young princesses amiably engaged in hair-dressing 68

Swazi girls 69

Pudana, favorite to the old Queen Labotsibeni 69

An actual combat in which the man on the left was slain 76

A type of dress worn by the royal executioner 77

Lomwazi, son and prime minister to the old Queen 77

Queen Tzaneen, mother of the crown prince 112

Queen Tzaneen with some Zulu princesses 113

Umzulek, a resourceful and influential exile 113

Swazi warriors and women dancing 128

Princesses of royal birth 129

Queen Labotsibeni, mother of King Buno 196

Lomwazi and his council of Indunas, or war chiefs 197

The stream that divides the royal from the common ground 204

Type of Afrikander cattle 205

Swazi women at home 205

On the way to the royal kraal at Zombode 256

The second trip into Swaziland 256

Mother feeding her baby 257

Maiden singing to the Crown Prince Sebuza 257

Dr. O'Neil and companions are received by Queen Tzaneen 282

Dr. O'Neil, Queen Tzaneen, Dr. Sugden, and Mr. Crespinell 282

Wives of the prime minister to Sebuza 283

Queen Tzaneen and Lochien 283

Princesses at the sacred bathing pool 304

A scene at the royal bathing pool 305

Interior of the royal kraal 320

Chief witch-doctor of Swaziland 320

A school of witch-doctors 321

A Swazi seminary or school for young witch-doctors 321

Crown Prince Sebuza in festival dress 336

Crown Prince Sebuza 337

Lochien, commander-in-chief of Prince Sebuza's impis 352

Warriors of Prince Sebuza's impis starting out to battle 352

One of the royal impis 353

Priests building the sacred fire 360

A view of the kraal 361

Mr. Crespinell at home among his black brethren 376

Dr. Sugden, Prince Lomwazi, and Dr. O'Neil 376

Dr. O'Neil, Mr. Crespinell, and Dr. Sugden after their
induction into the royal impi 377

ADVENTURES IN SWAZILAND