minded to die like men at teeth of the ghosts, and that though they

shook with fear. Then Umslopogaas howled aloud, and howled Galazi, and

they flung themselves upon the soldiers and the people of the kraal,

and with them came the wolves. Then a crying and a baying rose up to

heaven as the grey wolves leaped and bit and tore. Little they heeded

the spears and kerries of the soldiers. Some were killed, but the rest

did not stay. Presently the knots of men broke up, and to each man

wolves hung by twos and threes, dragging him to earth. Some few fled,