As I had hoped, no one was watching them because there are no tigers so near this town, and man does not steal the goats that are sacred.

I went into the kraal and found a fat young ewe which had a kid.

I dragged it out and, taking it behind some stones, I made its leg fast with a bit of cord and poured this stuff out of the bottle all over its skin, rubbing it in well.
Then I tied the twelve packets of hard poison-sugar everywhere about its body, making them very fast deep in the long hair so that they could not tumble or rub off.
"After this I untied the goat, led it near to the mouth of the cave and held it there for a time while it kept on bleating for its kid.

Next I took it almost up to the cave, wondering how I should drive it in, for I did not wish to enter there myself, Baas.

As it happened I need not have troubled about that.