Afterwards we can talk." "Well, as a matter of fact we have not yet breakfasted," I replied.
"Also I have business to attend to here," and I glanced at our wounded.
The old fellow nodded and went to speak to the captains of his force, doubtless as to the pursuit of the enemy, for presently I saw a company spring forward on their tracks.

Then, assisted by Hans and the remaining Zulus, of whom one was Goroko, I turned to attend to our own people.
The task proved lighter than I expected, since the badly injured man was dead or dying and the hurts of the two others were in their legs and comparatively slight, such as Goroko could doctor in his own native fashion.
After this, taking Hans to guard my back, I went down to the stream and washed myself.

Then I returned and ate, wondering the while that I could do so with appetite after the terrible dangers which we had passed.
Still, we had passed them, and Robertson, Umslopogaas with three of his men, I and Hans were quite unharmed, a fact for which I returned thanks in silence but sincerely enough to Providence.
Hans also returned thanks in his own fashion, after he had filled himself, not before, and lit his corn-cob pipe.

But Robertson made no remark; indeed, when he had satisfied his natural cravings, he rose and walking a few paces forward, stood staring at the cleft in the mountain cliff into which he had seen the litter vanish that bore his daughter to some fate unknown.
Even the great fight that we had fought and the victory we had won against overpowering odds did not appear to impress him.

He only glared at the mountain into the heart of which Inez had been raped away, and shook his fist.