time, king! Farewell!" And she uttered a great cry and rolled upon the

"The witch lies hard and dies hard," said the king carelessly, and

turned upon his heel. But those words of dead Nobela remained fixed in

his memory, or so much of them as had been spoken of Unandi and

Baleka. There they remained like seeds in the earth, there they grew

to bring forth fruit in their season.

And thus ended the great Ingomboco of Chaka, the greatest Ingomboco

that ever was held in Zululand.