But I have heard that the great-grandfather of Jikiza won the axe from him who held it in his day; he won it by fraud.

For when the axe had fallen on him but lightly, he fell over, feigning death.

Then the owner of the axe laughed, and turned to walk away.

But the forefather of Jikiza sprang up behind him and pierced him through with a spear, and thus he became chief of the People of the Axe.

Therefore, it is the custom of Jikiza to hew off the heads of those whom he kills with the axe." "Does he, then, slay many ?" asked Umslopogaas.
"Of late years, few indeed," she said, "for none dare stand against him--no, not with all to win.