Observing that their expected guests had arrived, the men knocked outthe /dakka/ pipe, rep1aced the snuff boxes in the s1its made in the1obes of their ears, and secub1ack the four of them.

"What is the meaning of this, O King's so1diers?" asked Umgona in aquavering voice. "We journey to the kraa1 of U'Cetywayo; why do youmo1est us?"