Uyu mugani baca ngo: "Ziracyapfa bitanihira", bawuca iyo babonye ibintu bikomanye n'amakwa

(biguye mu makuba) y'ubwoko bworetse ibindi; ni bwo bagira ngo "Ziracyapfa bitanihira!"

Wakomotse kuli Bitanihira wo mu Bufundu, ku ngoma ya Kigeli Nyamuheshera; ahayinga

umwaka w'i 1600.

Bitanihira uwo yali umugaragu wa Macigata watwaliraga Mutara Semugeshi u Bufundu n'u

Buroha. Yali atuye i Kinyamakara mu Bufundu, ariko inkomoko y'umuryango we ari i Burundi,

niho sekuru (ubyara se) yari yaraturutse, akaba umuhazi w'impu zavagamo inkindi (imyambaro

y'intore) biyerekanaga, guhamiriza bitaraduka mu Rwanda; dore ko byakomotse i Burundi.

Nuko rero Macigata shebuja wa Bitanihira amaze kunyagwa na Semugeshi, ibihugu bye

bigabanwa na Nyamuheshera (umuhungu wa Semugeshi); yari akiri umututsi mu bandi, ariko ari

we ingoma igomba mu bwiru. Amaze kubigabana, inkindi z'intore zaho ziramushimisha,

ashimikira aho zakaniwe; Abafundu bamubwira ko zikanwa n'umuhazi witwa Bitanihira. Ubwo

Nyamuheshera aramutumiza, amubaza ukuntu arema inkindi. Undi arabimusobanurira. Ubwo

Nyamuheshera aramwishimira, amugira umutora w'imiguta y'i Bufundu yose. Arayobokwa,

araturwa, aratengamara kubera inka yahongerwaga; dore ko uwaburaga impu z'imigoma myiza

yo kuvamo inkindi n'imikane y'ibwami yatangaga inyana y'inshuke kugira ngo ataregwa. Bimaze

iminsi Semugeshi aratanga: amaze gutanga (gupfa) umuhungu we Nyamuheshera yegurirwa

ingoma; u Bufundu yatwaraga abwegurira Bitanihira, bitewe n'uko yari umutoni we, n'uko kandi

nta mwami witegekeraga imisozi ndetse n'igihugu; yategekerwaga n'abatware be.

Bitanihira amaze kwegurirwa ibya Macigata kandi ari we wari umukanyi rwamwa wenyine muri

ako karere, agira ingorane inkindi ziba iyanga mu mitwe y'intore; bituma umutware wese

w'umutwe utabonye inkindi ajya kwibariza ibwami, anaregeramo Bitanihira. Nyamuheshera

amaze kurambirwa ibirego bya burijo, arakarira Bitanihira; aramutumiza, amubaza igituma

intore ze zitabona inkindi zose. Bitanihira; ati: "Imitwe yabaye myinshi, ni cyo gituma inkindi

zitabakwira. Nyamuheshera agiye kubyemera, abanzi ba Bitanihira barashikama baramusesereza;

bati: "Si impu zabuze ahubwo ni umurengwe wamuteye uburangare". Abarezi bamaze

gusesekaza ibisebyo, Bitanihira anyagwa u Bufundu, bamutegeka kujya atora imigoma wenyine

kandi akayikorera ubwe; akayihara, akayikana, agatura inkindi ibwami. Kuva ubwo akajya

abikora atyo mu migure ya nyamugirubutangwa.