Umbopa

Robeson plays Umbopa, the Umslopogaas character renamed possibly for easier pronunciation by the other actors.

Allan Quatermain Hollywood Style Dark Worlds Club 2009

Umbopa evidently understood him, for he answered in Zulu, "It is well"; and then added, with a glance at the white man's great stature and breadth, "We are men, thou and I."

King Solomon's Mines Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Umbopa understood English, though he rarely spoke it.

King Solomon's Mines Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Umbopa, assegai in hand and a rifle across his shoulders, looked out fixedly across the desert a few paces ahead of us; while the hired natives, with the gourds of water, and

King Solomon's Mines Henry Rider Haggard 1890

I looked at Umbopa as he said it, and it flashed across me that he was right.

King Solomon's Mines Henry Rider Haggard 1890

As Good was anxious to get a near view of them, never having seen an eland close, he handed his rifle to Umbopa, and, followed by Khiva, strolled up to the patch of bush.

King Solomon's Mines Henry Rider Haggard 1890

The two Winchester repeating rifles (for Umbopa and Ventvögel), with two hundred rounds of cartridge.

King Solomon's Mines Henry Rider Haggard 1890

I had been dreaming that I was bathing in a running stream, with green banks and trees upon them, and I awoke to find myself in this arid wilderness, and to remember, as Umbopa had said, that if we did not find water this day we must perish miserably.

King Solomon's Mines Henry Rider Haggard 1890

"We believe that we can do it, Umbopa -- Ignosi, I mean."

King Solomon's Mines Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Good, Sir Henry, and Umbopa bear up wonderfully, but Ventvögel is in a very bad way.

King Solomon's Mines Henry Rider Haggard 1890