thought that they would kill me where I stood. So we went on, and

piece by piece I learned what had happened at the king's kraal.

On the day after I left, it came to the ears of Chaka, by the mouth of

his spies, that my second wife--Anadi--was sick and spoke strange

words in her sickness. Then, taking three soldiers with him, he went

to my kraal at the death of the day. He left the three soldiers by the

gates of the kraal, bidding them to suffer none to come in or go out,

but Chaka himself entered the large hut where Anadi lay sick, having