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MOPO BARGAINS WITH THE PRINCES.
Eight-and-twenty days went by, my father, and on the nine-and-twentieth it befell that Chaka, having dreamed a dream in his troubled sleep, summoned before him certain women of the kraal, to the number of a hundred or more.

Some of these were his women, whom he named his "sisters," and some were maidens not yet given in marriage; but all were young and fair.

Now what this dream of Chaka may have been I do not know, or have forgotten, for in those days he dreamed many dreams, and all his dreams led to one end, the death of men.

He sat in front of his hut scowling, and I was with him.