Note 1 — II THE STORY OF THE KING’S SON AND THE MAGIC SONG A SWAZI TALE

Then the King’s son stood up and climbed on the wall of the cattle kraal, and sang the magic song, “Come, cattle, come to me,” and opened the gate of the kraal. At once the cattle rose up and walked straight past the huts and the sleeping men and out into the country, following the King’s son; and as they went the fairy ox with the crumpled horn bellowed loudly, and at his call all the cattle came from the east and the west and the south,1 and followed the King’s son.