till at length it came about by use that we could weep without ceasing

for many hours. No angry woman can weep as we wept in those days; it

was an art, my father, for the teaching of which I received many

cattle, for woe to him who had no tears in those days. Then it was

also that Chaka sent out the captain and fifty soldiers to search for

Umslopogaas, for, though he said nothing more to me of this matter, he

did not believe all the tale that I had told him of the death of

Umslopogaas in the jaws of a lion and the tale of those who were with