hated his rule because he was of the Zulu race, and it would have set

up a chief of the old Swazi blood in his place. Still, they could not

do this, for my father's hand was heavy on the people. Now I was the

only son of my father by his head wife, and born to be chief after

him, and therefore those of the Swazi party, and they were many and

great, hated me also. So matters stood till last year in the winter,

and then my father set his heart on killing twenty of the headmen,

with their wives and children, because he knew that they plotted