So it came about that one day they slipped from the kraal when the gates were open, and sought out a certain deep glen which had an evil name, for it was said that spirits haunted it and put those to death who entered there.

Whether this was true I do not know, but I know that in the glen dwelt a certain woman of the woods, who had her habitation in a cave and lived upon what she could kill or steal or dig up with her hands.

Now this woman was mad.

For it had chanced that her husband had been "smelt out" by the witch-doctors as a worker of magic against the king, and slain.

Then Chaka, according to custom, despatched the slayers to eat up his kraal, and they came to the kraal and killed his people.