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Died. Nguboyenja, youngest son of mighty Lobengula, last of the Zulus' great Matabele kings (TIME, Jan. 10); after 15 years of silence; near Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia. Educated in England through the good offices of Cecil Rhodes, he returned to South Africa to find that the elders of the royal house (the Kamalo Clan) disapproved of him and his newfound ways. He went into seclusion, read English classics, refused to speak either his native tongue or English...
...took the prospector to the banks of the Manyanda River, north of Bulawayo. There, on high ground where elephants feed and the waters divide to flow toward the Zambesi and the "great, grey-green, greasy Limpopo River," the rain-goddess showed the prospector a great stone. She rolled away the stone, and entered the cave of Lobengula. With the rain-goddess and the prospector was a Matabele named Ginyilitshe. The desecration of the cave filled Ginyilitshe with fear, and he ran straightway to Bulawayo, to a white man trusted by the Matabele: Arthur Huxtable, District Commissioner for Native Affairs...
When Huxtable returned to Bulawayo, he told the story and said: "Lobengula was also called 'Ndhlovu,' meaning elephant. There are elephants everywhere in that far place. I feel he is not lonely...
...keep training. He wore leather socks next his skin. Every hour he drank a half-pint glass of lemonade containing eight teaspoonfuls of sugar, half a teaspoonful of salt, and cracked ice. Other records: London to Brighton?5 hr. 53 min. 43 sec., 1924; 100 mi. at Bulawayo...
...Genuine golf hazard as chronicled in Bulawayo, South Africa...