tterly fearless, "for to do so is to render them evil."

"And I fear not such. No dread do I stand in of the sorcery of any.
Ask now, my sister--where is Isilwane, once head of the _izanusi_?
Where Notalwa--and others?" said Umzilikazi, frowning.

"Yet, let will be. Say, Calf of a Black Bull--was my _muti_ for good or
for ill, that guided the shield now borne by Untuswa? The magic of the
Bakoni is as superior to that of the Amazulu as the might in battle of
these last is to that of the peoples they have made an end of."

"What now is thy story, my sister?" said the King, leaving that
question. And some of her story Lalusini gave us then and there--how
that she alone of all his children would Tshakathe Mighty recognise,
even if there were any others who were not slain, for that King desired
not children, lest, growing up, they should plot against him and depose
him. Lalusini, however, he destined to some great though hidden end,
and caused the land far and wide to be searched for those who could
teach her the deeper and most hidden mysteries of their magic. Then it
befell that the two brothers of Tshaka--Dingane and Mhlangana--rose up
against the Great One and slew him, and Lalusini with her mother,
Laliwa, and some others, fled afar to escape the death of the spear, and
after many wanderings and perils reached the land of the Bakoni, which
they deemed remote enough from Dingane. Here Tauane, the chief of that
people, would have wedded her, but she would have none of him or his
plans.

"_Au_! that dog who is burnt!" cried Umzilikazi. "I would he were here
again, that I might make him once more taste fire. _Au_! A dog, to
think to blend the branches of the royal stem of Senzangakona with the
rank weeds of his jackal tribe."

"Not to no purpose had I learned the magic of the wise," went on
Lalusini. "I divined your coming, Great Great One; yes, long before
Untuswa's first embassy appeared in the land, and I welcomed it.
Nothing of it did I say in warning to Tauane and the People of the Blue
Coloured Cattle, save darkly, and, as it were, in jest. And they
mocked."

"If you welcomed our coming, my sister, why didst thou disappear into
air for a space thereafter?" said Umzilikazi cunningly.

"Ha! no evil lay behind that, son of Matyobane. Can two bulls of equal
size dwell in one kraal? Yet Zululand is now just such a kraal, having
two kings, Dingane and Mhlangana. Yet it should have but one."

"_Hau_!"