sleep feeling their limbs to know if they yet live, do they not night

by night lie down to sleep not knowing if it shall be their wives that

they shall kiss ere dawn or the red assegai of the king? Draw near to

them, my brother; creep into their hearts and learn their counsel or

teach them yours; so in the end shall Chaka be brought to that gate

through which your wives have passed, and where I also am about to

Thus Baleka spoke and she was gone, leaving me pondering, for her

words were heavy with wisdom. I knew well that the brothers of the