So the chief said to the men that were with him: “What strange thing is this?”
The men replied: “We don’t know him at all.”
The chief asked of them also advice, saying: “What shall I do?”
The men replied: “Give him a piece of meat.” [[92]]
So the chief cut off a piece of meat and gave it to him. Hlakanyana ran to his mother and gave the meat to her to be cooked.
Then he returned to his father, and said again: “Father, give me some meat.”
The chief just took him and trampled upon him, and threw him outside of the kraal, thinking that he was dead.
But he rose again and returned to his father, still saying: “Father, give me some meat.”
Then the chief thought to get rid of him by giving him meat again. The chief gave him a piece of liver. Hlakanyana threw it away. Fat was then given to him. He put it down on one side. Flesh was then given to him, and a bone with much marrow in it.
Hlakanyana said: “I am a man to-day.” He said: “This is the beginning of my father’s cattle.”