But first they made sure that the mountain Umpondwana lay to the west, and not to the south, for not one step to the southward would they allow Suzanne to travel with them.
On the morrow, then, they marched, and the evening of the third day they set their camp in a mountain pass which led to a wide plain.

Before sunrise next morning Sihamba woke Suzanne.
"Dress yourself, Swallow," she said, "and come to see the light break on the house of my people." So they went out in the grey dawn, and climbing a koppie in the mouth of the pass, looked before them.

At first they could distinguish nothing, for all the plain beneath was a sea of mist through which in the distance loomed something like a mountain, till presently the rays of the rising sun struck upon it and the veils of vapour parted like curtains that are drawn back, and there before them was the mountain-fortress of Umpondwana separated from the pass by a great space of mist-clad plain.

Suzanne looked and knew it.
"Sihamba," she said, "it is the place of my vision and none other.

See, the straight sides of red rock, the five ridges upon the eastern slope fashioned like the thumb and fingers of the hand of a man.