It would go ill with the 'impi' which tried to take that kraal." For a while they all stood still and stared amazed.

It seemed strange that they should have reached this fabled city; and now that they were there, how would they be received within its walls?
This was the question which each one of them was asking of himself.

There was but one way to find out--they must go and see; no retreat was now possible.
Even the Settlement people felt this.

"Better to die at the hands of the Great Men," said one of them aloud, "than to perish miserably in the mist and cold." "Be of good cheer," Leonard answered; "you are not yet dead.

The sun shines once more.