With a shout of rage they rushed upon the pair from both sides, but in either case one was the most eager, and outstepped the other two, and thus it came about that time was given the Wolf-Brethren to strike at him alone, before his fellows were at his side.

He who came at Umslopogaas drove at him with his spear, but he was not to be caught this, for he bent his middle sideways, so that the spear only cut his skin, and as he bent tapped with the point of the axe at the head of the smiter, dealing death on him.
"Yonder Woodpecker has a bill of steel, and he can use it well," said the councillor to him who stood by him.
"This is a Slaughterer indeed," the man answered, and the people heard the names.

Thenceforth they knew Umslopogaas as the Woodpecker, and as Bulalio, or the Slaughterer, and by no other names.

Now, he who came at Galazi the Wolf rushed on wildly, holding his spear short.

But Galazi was cunning in war.