Now the brethren met, and laughed in their wolf joy, because they had slaughtered those who were sent out to slaughter.
They called to the wolves, bidding them search the huts, and the wolves entered the huts as dogs enter a thicket, and killed those who lurked there, or drove them forth to be slain without.

Presently a man, great and tall, sprang from the last of the huts, where he had hidden himself, and the wolves outside rushed on him to drag him down.

But Umslopogaas beat them back, for he had seen the face of the man: it was that captain whom Chaka had sent out to kill him.

He beat them back, and stalked up to the captain, saying: "Greeting to you, captain of the king! Now tell us what is your errand here, beneath the shadow of her who sits in stone ?" And he pointed with his spear to the Grey Witch on the Ghost Mountain, on which the moon shone bright.
Now the captain had a great heart, though he had hidden from the wolves, and answered boldly:-- "What is that to you, wizard?
Your ghost wolves had made an end of my errand.

Let them make an end of me also." "Be not in haste, captain," said Umslopogaas.