Zikali would dwell in this Valley of Bones, and there and nowhere else would meet the King and the Great Council, not in the daylight but after sunset when the moon has risen." "Why," said Cetewayo, starting, "the place is ill-omened and, they say, haunted, one that no man dares to approach after the fall of darkness for fear lest the ghosts of the dead should leap upon him gibbering." "Such were the words of the Opener of Roads, O King," replied Goza.

"There and nowhere else will he meet the King, and there he demands that three huts should be built to shelter him and his folk and stored with all things needful.

If this be not granted to him, then he refuses to visit the King or to give counsel to the nation." "So be it then," said Cetewayo.

"Send messengers to the Opener of Roads, Goza, saying that what he desires shall be done.

Let my command go out that under pain of death none spy upon him while he journeys hither or returns.