"If I, the king, wished to kill thee, mightest thou therefore kill me or those whom I sent?
The Itongo in the woman was a Spirit King and ordered her to kill thee; thou shouldst then have let thyself be killed.

Hast thou no other reason ?" "This, Elephant," answered Umslopogaas; "the woman would have murdered my sister, whom I love better than my life." "That is nothing," said Chaka.

"If I ordered thee to be killed for any cause, should I not also order all within thy gates to be killed with thee?
May not, then, a Spirit King do likewise?
If thou hast nothing more to say thou must die." Now I grew afraid, for I feared lest Chaka should slay him who was called my son because of the word of the doctors.

But the boy Umslopogaas looked up and answered boldly, not as one who pleads for his life, but as one who demands a right:-- "I have this to say, Eater-up of Enemies, and if it is not enough, let us stop talking, and let me be killed.

Thou, O king, didst command that this woman should be slain.