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MOPO REVEALS HIMSELF TO THE SLAUGHTERER.
All that night we watched, but we neither saw nor heard any more of the wolves, nor of the men who hunted with them.

On the morrow, at dawn, I sent a runner to Bulalio, chief of the People of the Axe, saying that a messenger came to him from Dingaan, the king, who desired to speak with him in peace within the gates of his kraal.

I charged the messenger, however, that he should not tell my name, but should say only that it was "Mouth of Dingaan." Then I and those with me followed slowly on the path of the man whom I sent forward, for the way was still far, and I had bidden him return and meet me bearing the words of the Slaughterer, Holder of the Axe.
All that day till the sun grew low we talked round the base of the great Ghost Mountain, following the line of the river.

We met no one, but once we came to the ruins of a kraal, and in it lay the broken bones of many men, and with the bones rusty assegais and the remains of ox-hide shields, black and white in colour.