Then she cut and cooked for them also.
The animal felt uncomfortable under this treatment, and called his councillors together for advice, but they could suggest no remedy. He lay down and rolled in the mud, but that did not help him, and at last he went and put his head in the kraal fence, and died.
His councillors were standing at a distance, afraid to approach him, so they sent a monkey to see how he was. The monkey returned and [[178]]said: “Those whose home is on the mountains must hasten to the mountains; those whose home is on the plains must hasten to the plains; as for me, I go to the rocks.”
Then the animals all dispersed.
By this time the woman had succeeded in cutting a hole through the chief’s side, and came forth, followed by her children.
Then an ox came out, and said: “Bo! bo! who helped me?”
Then a dog, who said: “Ho! ho! who helped me?”
Then a man, who said: “Zo! zo! who helped me?”
Afterwards all the people and cattle came out. They agreed that the woman who helped them should be their chief.
When her children became men, they were out hunting one day, and saw a monstrous cannibal, who was sticking fast in a mud hole. They killed him, and then returned to tell the men of their tribe what they had done. The men went and skinned the cannibal, when a great number of people came out of him also. These joined their deliverers, and so that people became a great nation. [[179]]