Mpunzikazi answered: “You ugly thing! who are you that you should advise me?”
The old woman continued in saying those words.
The girl went on. She came to a place where were many trees. The trees laughed at her, and she laughed at them in return. She saw a bag of thick milk, and she ate of it. She met a man carrying his head under his arm, and she took water to drink from him.
She came to the river of the village of the chief. She saw a girl there dipping water from the river. The girl said: “Where are you going to, my sister?”
Mpunzikazi replied: “Who are you that you should call me sister? I am going to be the wife of a chief.”
The girl drawing water was the sister of the chief. She said: “Wait, I will give you advice. Do not enter the village by this side.”
Mpunzikazi did not stand to listen, but just went on.
She reached the village of the chief. The [[52]]people asked her where she came from and what she wanted.
She answered: “I have come to be the wife of the chief.”
They said: “Who ever saw a girl go without a retinue to be a bride?”