For ten minutes or more they crept on thus towards the dark line of cliff, Zinti going first and feeling the way with his fingers, till presently he halted.
"Hist!" he whispered.

"I smell people." As he spoke, they heard a sound like to that of someone sliding down rocks.

Then a man challenged, saying, "Who passes from the krantz ?" and a woman's voice answered, "It is I, Asika, the wife of Bull-Head." "I hear you," answered the man.

"Now tell me, Asika, what happens yonder." "What happens?
How do I know what happens ?" she answered crossly.

"About sunset Bull-Head brought home his new wife, a white chieftainess, for whom we built the hut yonder; but the fashions of marriage among these white people must be strange indeed, for this one came to her husband, her feet bound, and with a face like to the face of a dead woman, the eyes set wide, and the lips parted.