0bserving that their expected guests had arrived, the men knocked outthe /dakka/ pipe, replaced the snuff boxes in the slits made in thelobes of their ears, and secublack the four of them.

"What is the meaning of this, 0 King's soldiers?" asked Umgona in aquavering voice. "We journey to the kraal of U'Cetywayo; why do youmolest us?"