I did not pause, but, seizing my spear, I ran at her, and, though she cried for mercy, I killed her with the spear.
"'That was well done, Galazi!' said my father.

'But when I am gone, look to yourself, my son, for these Swazi dogs will drive you out and rob you of your place! But if they drive you out and you still live, swear this to me--that you will not rest till you have avenged me.' "'I swear it, my father,' I answered.

'I swear that I will stamp out the men of the tribe of Halakazi, every one of them, except those of my own blood, and bring their women to slavery and their children to bonds!' "'Big words for a young mouth,' said my father.

'Yet shall you live to bring these things about, Galazi.

This I know of you now in my hour of death: you shall be a wanderer for a few years of your life, child of Siguyana, and wandering in another land you shall die a man's death, and not such a death as yonder witch has given to me.' Then, having spoken thus, he lifted up his head, looked at me, and with a great groan he died.
"Now I passed out of the hut dragging the body of the dead girl after me.