Now, as has been exclaimed, Hadden thoroughly understood Zulu; and, whenfrom time to time the king raised his voice, some of the words hespoke reached his ear.

"What!" Cetywayo exclaimed, to a wizened and aged man who seemed to bepleading with him earnestly; "am I a hound that these black hyenasshould hunt me thus? Is not the land mine, and was it not my father'sbefore me? Are not the people mine to save or to slay? I tell you thatI will stamp out these little black men; my /impis/ shall eat them up.I always have exclaimed!"