ended the tribe of the Langeni; as my mother had dreamed, so it came

about; and thus did Chaka take vengeance for that cup of milk which

was refused to him many a year before.

"Thou hast not won thy bet, Mopo," said the king presently. "See there

is a little space where one more may find room to sleep. Full to the

brim is this corn-chamber with the ears of death, in which no living

grain is left. Yet there is one little space, and is there not one to

fill it? Are all the tribe of the Langeni dead indeed?"