kraal, through which Justice never walked. Behind is another
house, where the white men who have sinned against Him pray to the King
of Heaven for forgiveness; there on that spot have I seen many a one who
had done no wrong pray to a king of men for mercy, but I have never seen
but one who found it. Ou! the words of Chaka have come true: I will tell
them to you presently, my father. The white man holds the land, he goes
to and fro about his business of peace where impis ran forth to kill;
his children laugh and gather flowers where men died in blood by
hundreds; they bathe in the waters of the Imbozamo, where once the
crocodiles were fed daily with human flesh; his young men woo the
maidens where other maids have kissed the assegai. It is changed,
nothing is the same, and of Chaka are left only a grave yonder and a
name of fear.

Now, after Chaka had come to the Duguza kraal, for a while he sat quiet,
then the old thirst of blood came on him, and he sent his impis against
the people of the Pondos, and they destroyed that people, and brought
back their cattle. But the warriors might not rest; again they
were doctored for war, and sent out by tens of thousands to conquer
Sotyangana, chief of the people who live north of the Limpopo. They
went singing, after the king had looked upon them and bidden them return
victorious or not at all. Their number was so great that from the hour
of dawn till the sun was high in the heavens they passed the gates of
the kraal like countless herds of cattle--they the unconquered. Little
did they know that victory smiled on them no more; that they must die
by thousands of hunger and fever in the marshes of the Limpopo, and
that those of them who returned should come with their shields in their
bellies, having devoured their shields because of their ravenous hunger!
But what of them? They were nothing. "Dust" was the name of one of
the great regiments that went out against Sotyangana, and dust they
were--dust to be driven to death by the breath of Chaka, Lion of the
Zulu.

Now few men remained in the kraal Duguza, for nearly all had gone
with the impi, and only women and aged people were left. Dingaan and
Umhlangana, brothers of the king, were there, for Chaka would not suffer
them to depart, fearing lest they should plot against him, and he looked
on them always with an angry eye, so that they trembled for their lives,
though they dared not show their fear lest fate should follow fear. But