in their magic, one who had the seeing eye and the hearing ear.

One morning thereafter a new thing came to pass in the royal kraal,

for the king himself ran out, crying aloud to all people to come and

see the evil that had been worked upon him by a wizard. They came

together and saw this. On the door-posts of the gateway of the

Intunkulu, the house of the king, were great smears of blood. The

knees of men strong in the battle trembled when they saw it; women

wailed aloud as they wail over the dead; they wailed because of the