'It was this constellation', runs the passage, 'that the wise Goddess had told him to keep on his left hand as he crossed the sea.' In other words he was to sail east, for the seven stars of the Bear or Plough rotate around the pole of the sky.
'Yayi le nkwenkwezi' eyabaleka indlu 'ukuba isiThixokazi esikrele-krele samnxelela yena ukugcina isandla sakhe sasekunene xa enqumla ulwandle.' Ngamanye amazwi wayezakuhamba ngenqanawa empuma, ngenkwenkwezi ezisixhenxe zebhere okanye ukulima jikelele kwincam yesibhaka-bhaka.