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Show COULDN'T BELIEVE IT - Some "civilized" people refuse to believe anything they cannot understand. But the Zulu savages seem to be eminent in that kind of sovereign incredulity: <br><br> An English officer in Zululand told Dr. Russel how the missionary at King Lobengula's town fared with his congregation. They crowded the church at the time of service, and listened, with their pipes in their mouths, to the clergyman till he read some passage which they did not accept, and then they called out in Matabele, - <br><br> "Heme! That is a lie. We do not believe it." <br><br> Once the missionary went to King Lobengula and said he desired to leave to visit one of the Southern towns, as was in want of new teeth. The king said, gravely, -<br><br> "You have told me many falsehoods, and I have borne with you up to this. But now you exhaust my good nature. How dare you at your time of life pretend you want new teeth? Go away with you!" |