Wow! they are all wizards.
Could any who was but a man have done the deeds which he who is named the Wolf wrought down by the river yonder, and then have escaped?
Had the Axe but stayed with the Club they would have eaten up our impi." "The Axe had a woman to watch," laughed the other.

"Yes, it is true this is a place of wizards and evil things.

Methinks I see the red eyes of the Esedowana glaring at us through the dark of the trees and smell their smell.

Yet these wizards must be caught, for know this, my brother: if we return to Umgugundhlovu with the king's command undone, then there are stakes hardening in the fire of which we shall taste the point.

If we are all killed in the catching, and some, it seems, are missing already, yet they must be caught.