So he called his two dogs, and said to the one: “Tumtumse, my dog, if I kill this calf, will you imitate it and suck the eland for me?”
The dog said: “No, I will bark like a dog.”
Kenkebe said: “Get out of my sight and never come near me again, you ugly, useless animal.”
He said to the other: “Mbambozozele, my dog, if I kill this calf, will you imitate it and suck the eland for me?”
The dog said: “I will do so.”
Then he killed the calf and ate it. He took the skin and put it upon Mbambozozele, so that the eland thought it was her calf that sucked before Kenkebe milked her. But one day the dog was sucking too long, and Kenkebe wanted him to leave off. He tried to drink just a few drops more, when his master got angry and struck him with a stick. Thereupon the dog began to howl, and the eland saw how she had been deceived. At once she ran after Kenkebe and tried to stick him with [[164]]her horns. He ran one way and the eland ran after him, then he ran another way, and still the eland chased him.
His wife came out and saw him running. She cried out to him: “Jump up quickly on the big stone.” He did so, and the eland ran with such fury against that stone that it broke its head and fell down dead.
They then cut the eland up and wanted to cook it, but there was no fire. Kenkebe said to his son: “Go to the village of the cannibals that is on that hill over the valley, and ask for some fire; but do not take any meat with you, lest they should smell it.”
The boy went, but he hid a piece of meat and took it with him. When he got to the first house he asked for fire, but they sent him to the next. At the next they sent him farther, and so he had to go to the house that was farthest away. An old woman lived there. The boy gave her a little piece of meat, and said: “Do not cook it till I am far away with the fire.”
But as soon as the boy was gone, she put it on the coals. The smell came to the noses of the cannibals, and they ran to the place and [[165]]swallowed the old woman, and the meat, and the fire, and even the ashes.