For they hated me as one instructed in their magic, one who had the seeing eye and the hearing ear.
One morning thereafter a new thing came to pass in the royal kraal, for the king himself ran out, crying aloud to all people to come and see the evil that had been worked upon him by a wizard.

They came together and saw this.

On the door-posts of the gateway of the Intunkulu, the house of the king, were great smears of blood.

The knees of men strong in the battle trembled when they saw it; women wailed aloud as they wail over the dead; they wailed because of the horror of the omen.
"Who has done this thing ?" cried Chaka in a terrible voice.

"Who has dared to bewitch the king and to strike blood upon his house ?" There was no answer, and Chaka spoke again.