She said: “I will go alone to be the wife of the chief.”
Her father replied: “How can you, my daughter, say such a thing? Is it not so that when a girl goes to present herself to her husband she should be accompanied by others? Be not foolish, my daughter.”
The girl still said: “I will go alone to be the wife of the chief.”
Then the man allowed his daughter to do as she chose. She went alone, no bridal party accompanying her, to present herself at the village of the chief who wanted a wife.
As Mpunzikazi was in the path, she met a mouse.
The mouse said: “Shall I show you the way?”
The girl replied: “Just get away from before my eyes.” [[50]]
The mouse answered: “If you do like this, you will not succeed.”
Then she met a frog.
The frog said: “Shall I show you the way?”