For, holding the axe Groan-Maker, he is unconquerable, and to fight with him is sure death.

Fifty-and-one have tried in all, and before the hut of Jikiza there are piled fifty-and-one white skulls.

And know this, the axe must be won in fight; if it is stolen or found, it has no virtue--nay, it brings shame and death to him who holds it." "How, then, may a man give battle to Jikiza ?" he asked again.
"Thus: Once in every year, on the first day of the new moon of the summer season, Jikiza holds a meeting of the headmen.

Then he must rise and challenge all or any to come forward and do battle with him to win the axe and become chief in his place.

Now if one comes forward, they go into the cattle kraal, and there the matter is ended.