in their wolf joy, because they had slaughtered those who were sent

out to slaughter. They called to the wolves, bidding them search the

huts, and the wolves entered the huts as dogs enter a thicket, and

killed those who lurked there, or drove them forth to be slain

without. Presently a man, great and tall, sprang from the last of the

huts, where he had hidden himself, and the wolves outside rushed on

him to drag him down. But Umslopogaas beat them back, for he had seen

the face of the man: it was that captain whom Chaka had sent out to