Nor did she appear to recognise Cetewayo, although he stared at her hard enough.

But, as her glance fell upon the two executioners, I thought I saw her shudder like a shaken reed.

Then she sat down in the place appointed to her, and the trial began.
The case of Saduko was taken first.

An officer learned in Zulu law--which I can assure the reader is a very intricate and well-established law--I suppose that he might be called a kind of attorney-general, rose and stated the case against the prisoner.

He told how Saduko, from a nobody, had been lifted to a great place by the King and given his daughter, the Princess Nandie, in marriage.