Umslopogaas with the she-wolves to the south gate. They reached them

safely and in silence, for at the bidding of the brethren the wolves

ceased from their howlings. The gates were stopped with thorns, but

the brethren pulled out the thorns and made a passage. As they did

this it chanced that certain dogs in the kraal heard the sound of the

stirred boughs, and awakening, caught the smell of the wolves that

were with Umslopogaas, for the wind blew from that quarter. These dogs

ran out barking, and presently they came to the south gate of the