help of the wolves. For ever they ravened through the land at night,

and, falling on those they hated, they ate them up, till their name

and the name of the ghost-wolves became terrible in the ears of men,

and the land was swept clean. But they found that the wolves would not

go abroad to worry everywhere. Thus, on a certain night, they set out

to fall upon the kraals of the People of the Axe, where dwelt the

chief Jikiza, who was named the Unconquered, and owned the axe Groan-

Maker, but when they neared the kraal the wolves turned back and fled.