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UMSLOPOGAAS ANSWERS THE KING.
Now the years went on, and this matter slept.

Nothing more was heard of it, but still it only slept; and, my father, I feared greatly for the hour when it should awake.

For the secret was known by two women--Unandi, Mother of the Heavens, and Baleka, my sister, wife of the king; and by two more--Macropha and Anadi, my wives--it was guessed at.
How, then, should it remain a secret forever?
Moreover, it came about that Unandi and Baleka could not restrain their fondness for this child who was called my son and named Umslopogaas, but who was the son of Chaka, the king, and of the Baleka, and the grandson of Unandi.

So it happened that very often one or the other of them would come into my hut, making pretence to visit my wives, and take the boy upon her lap and fondle it.