t, for the night is young; then, Galazi, summon our impi."

So they rested and ate, and afterwards went out armed, and Galazi howled
to the wolves, and they came in tens and twenties till all were gathered
together. Galazi moved among them, shaking the Watcher, as they sat upon
their haunches, and followed him with their fiery eyes.

"We do not hunt game to-night, little people," he cried, "but men, and
you love the flesh of men."

Now all the wolves howled as though they understood. Then the pack
divided itself as was its custom, the she-wolves following Umslopogaas,
the dog-wolves following Galazi, and in silence they moved swiftly down
towards the plain. They came to the river and swam it, and there, eight
spear throws away, on the farther side of the river stood the kraal.
Now the Wolf-Brethren took counsel together, and Galazi, with the
dog-wolves, went to the north gate, and Umslopogaas with the she-wolves
to the south gate. They reached them safely and in silence, for at the
bidding of the brethren the wolves ceased from their howlings. The gates
were stopped with thorns, but the brethren pulled out the thorns and
made a passage. As they did this it chanced that certain dogs in the
kraal heard the sound of the stirred boughs, and awakening, caught the
smell of the wolves that were with Umslopogaas, for the wind blew from
that quarter. These dogs ran out barking, and presently they came to the
south gate of the kraal, and flew at Umslopogaas, who pulled away the
thorns. Now when the wolves saw the dogs they could be restrained no
longer, but sprang on them and tore them to fragments, and the sound
of their worrying came to the ears of the soldiers of Chaka and of the
dwellers in the kraal, so that they sprang from sleep, snatching their
arms. And as they came out of the huts they saw in the moonlight a man
wearing a wolf's hide rushing across the empty cattle kraal, for the
grass was long and the cattle were out at graze, and with him countless
wolves, black and grey. Then they cried aloud in terror, saying that the
ghosts were on them, and turned to flee to the north gate of the kraal.
But, behold! here also they met a man clad in a wolf's skin only, and
with him countless wolves, black and grey.

Now, some flung themselves to earth screaming in their fear, and some
strove to run away, but the greater part of the soldiers, and with them
many of the men of the kraal, came together in knots, being minded to
die