Then, without saying anything to my mother, I snatched the gourd and ran with it to a little donga that was hard by, for I knew that there was a spring.

Presently I came back with the gourd full of water.

My mother wanted to catch me, for she was very angry, but I ran past her and gave the gourd to the boy.

Then my mother ceased trying to interfere, only she beat the woman with her tongue all the while, saying that evil had come to our kraals from her husband, and she felt in her heart that more evil would come upon us from her son.
Her Ehlose (3) told her so.

Ah! my father, her Ehlose told her true.
If the woman Unandi and her child had died that day on the veldt, the gardens of my people would not now be a wilderness, and their bones would not lie in the great gulley that is near U'Cetywayo's kraal.
(3) Guardian spirit .-- ED.
While my mother talked I and the cow with the white face stood still and watched, and the baby Baleka cried aloud.