Will the king suffer that I go?
My wife is in labour and I would visit her." "Nay, stay awhile; say how it is with Baleka, my sister and thine ?" "It is well." "Did she weep when you took the babe from her ?" "Nay, she wept not.

She said, 'My lord's will is my will.'" "Good! Had she wept she had been slain also.

Who was with her ?" "The Mother of the Heavens." The brow of Chaka darkened.

"Unandi, my mother, what did she there?
My myself I swear, though she is my mother--if I thought"-- and he ceased.
Thee was a silence, then he spoke again.

"Say, what is in that mat ?" and he pointed with his little assegai at the bundle on my shoulders.
"Medicine, king." "Thou dost carry enough to doctor an impi.