together to give a child to me who would be childless. These were her

words, the words that came to me through the singing of the fire. Tell

me now, Mopo, where are those children that thou leddest from thy

kraal, the boy with the lion eyes who is named Umslopogaas, and the

"Umslopogaas is dead by the lion's mouth, O king!" I answered, "and

Nada sits in the Swazi caves." And I told him of the death of

Umslopogaas and of how I had divorced Macropha, my wife.

"The boy with the lion eyes to the lion's mouth!" said Chaka. "Enough