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

me. How that company fared at the hands of Umslopogaas and of Galazi

the Wolf, and at the fangs of the people black and grey, I have told

you, my father. None of them ever came back again. In after days it

was reported to the king that these soldiers were missing, never