So he sat in a corner of the big hut and listened.

Presently the headman of the kraal, who trembled with fear, for he believed that the impi had been sent to destroy him and all that were his, asked the captain what was his will.
"A little matter, and a vain," said the captain.

"We are sent by the king to search for a certain youth, Umslopogaas, the son of Mopo, the king's doctor.

Mopo gave it out that the youth was killed by a lion near these mountains, and Chaka would learn if this is true." "We know nothing of the youth," said the headman.

"But what would ye with him ?" "Only this," answered the captain, "to kill him." "That is yet to do," thought Umslopogaas.
"Who is this Mopo ?" asked the headman.
"An evildoer, whose house the king has eaten up--man, woman, and child," answered the captain..