ow's head.
Ebomvu seized this and smelt it, shouting, "_Nuka, Nuka_" ("It stinks.")
He then moved slowly out of the kraal, holding the horn in front of him,
and going first in one direction, then in another, until he reached the
huts where the old man lived to whom he was an enemy. Here he went on
the ground and crawled on like a dog, smelling the ground like a hound.
He entered the hut of the old man, and pointing to a corner told the men
to dig there. They turned up the ground, and found a horn just the same
size and shape, as that which they had discovered in the cattle
enclosure, and on this horn were the same marks as those on the horn
first found. This was considered positive evidence that the cow had
died from being bewitched. So a council of all the chiefs was called,
and the case was tried. The evidence of the finding of the two pieces
of horn was given, and on being examined the same marks were seen on
each. So the old man was ordered to pay a fine of five cows to the man
whose cow had died, and five cows to the chief himself. Had it been a
man who had died instead of a cow, the old man himself would have been
killed, and all his cattle taken by the chief.

I was much afraid lest the wizard should accuse me of "tagata," as they
called witchcraft, so I always made friends with him, and gave him
presents, and used to sit and talk with him whenever I could. I gave
him several fine ostrich-feathers, with which he was much pleased, and
he told me I should some day be the great chief of this district.

CHAPTER NINE.

Shortly after my trip in search of the ostrich-feathers, an event
occurred which obliged our people to call a meeting of the whole tribe.
There came to our country some Caffres belonging to the tribes which
lived west of us, and on the banks of the Kei river. These tribes were
the Amakosa, the Amaponda, and others. Beyond them were the white men,
consisting of the English, called the Umlungos, and the Amabores, as the
Dutch farmers were called by the Caffres.

Between these white people and the Amakosa, there had been a sort of war
going on for some months. The Caffres had been unable to resist the
temptation of seeing fine fat cattle grazing near them, and but
carelessly watched. The young Caffres especially were excited by such
sights, because many of these wished to purchase a wife, and as the
price demanded for a wife was ten cows, they were unable to buy the girl
they were fond