Let me see if mine is better." So down he went on his hands and knees, and crawled as the first had done, only he put his shield over his head.

For awhile they heard him crawling, then once more came the sound of blows echoing on the ox-hide shield, and after the blows groans.

He was dead also, yet it seemed that they had left his body in the hole, for now no light came through.

This was the cause, my father: when they struck the man he had wriggled back a little way and died there, and none had entered from the farther side to drag him out.
Now the soldiers stared at the mouth of the passage and none seemed to love the look of it, for this was but a poor way to die.

Umslopogaas and Galazi also looked at it, thinking.
"Now I am named Wolf," said Galazi, "and a wolf should not fear the dark; also, these are my people, and I must be the first to visit them," and he went down on his hands and knees without more ado.