See! but now two of us are dead at their hands, and others lie dead along the road.

Suffer that we slay them." "Ask that of the Elephant," said the soldiers; "ask too that he suffer you should not be slain." Just then the tall chief saw blood and heard words.

He stalked up; and he was a great man to look at, though still quite young in years.

For he was taller by a head than any round him, and his chest was big as the chests of two; his face was fierce and beautiful, and when he grew angry his eye flashed like a smitten brand.
"Who are these that dare to stir up dust at the gates of my kraal ?" he asked, frowning.
"O Chaka, O Elephant!" answered the captain of the soldiers, bending himself double before him, "the men say that these are evildoers and that they pursue them to kill them." "Good!" he answered.

"Let them slay the evildoers." "O great chief! thanks be to thee, great chief!" said those men of my people who sought to kill us.
"I hear you," he answered, then spoke once more to the captain.