Here he halted for the night, knee-haltering the horse, and leaving it loose to graze, though he himself had nothing to eat.

At the first grey of dawn he awoke, and was astonished to see a second animal feeding with the horse, which proved to be none other than the mule that, as these creatures sometimes will, had followed the spoor of his companion, Sihamba's horse, till it found it again.

After this he crossed the drift, riding slowly and leading the mule, till shortly after sunrise he came to the outskirts of the town, where Sigwe's watchmen found him and brought him to the chief.
"This man is a servant worth having," said Sigwe when he had heard the story.

"Let food be given to him and to the beasts." When Zinti had gone Sigwe spoke to Suzanne.
"Lady Swallow," he said, "as you have heard, by the command of the spirits of my ancestors speaking through the mouth of the diviner, while you are with us, you and not I are the captain of my army, and must lead it in this great war which I make against the Endwandwe.

Now the regiments are ready to march, and I ask if it be your pleasure that we should set out to-morrow at the dawn, for time presses, and the Endwandwe live very far away ?" "Your will is my will, chief," she answered, for she could see no way of escape from this strange journey, "but I desire to learn the cause of this war which I must lead by the decree of the spirits of your ancestors." Now Sigwe gave an order to some attendants waiting upon him, who went away to return presently leading with them a woman.