Seeing me, he seized me by the arm, and clung to me as, when the slayers are at hand, a child clings to his father, drawing me after him into a small hut that was near.
"What evil thing has befallen, O King ?" I said again, when light had been made.
"Little have I known of fear, Mopo," said Chaka, "yet I am afraid now; ay, as much afraid as when once on a bygone night the dead hand of Baleka summoned something that walked upon the faces of the dead." "And what fearest thou, O King, who art the lord of all the earth ?" Now Chaka leaned forward and whispered to me: "Hearken, Mopo, I have dreamed a dream.

When the judgment of those witches was done with, I went and laid me down to sleep while it was yet light, for I can scarcely sleep at all when darkness has swallowed up the world.

My sleep has gone from me--that sister of thine, Baleka, took my sleep with her to the place of death.

I laid me down and I slept, but a dream arose and sat by me with a hooded face, and showed me a picture.

It seemed to me that the wall of my hut fell down, and I saw an open place, and in the centre of the place I lay dead, covered with many wounds, while round my corpse my brothers Dingaan and Umhlangana stalked in pride like lions.
On the shoulders of Umhlangana was my royal kaross, and there was blood on the kaross; and in the hand of Dingaan was my royal spear, and there was blood upon the spear.