My houseboy might be in the rising, and I would never suspect it till one fine morning he cut my throat.' 'But they would never find a leader.

If there was some exiled prince of Tchaka's blood, who came back like Prince Charlie to free his people, there might be danger; but their royalties are fat men with top hats and old frock-coats, who live in dirty locations.' Wardlaw admitted this, but said that there might be other kinds of leaders.

He had been reading a lot about Ethiopianism, which educated American negroes had been trying to preach in South Africa.

He did not see why a kind of bastard Christianity should not be the motive of a rising.

'The Kaffir finds it an easy job to mix up Christian emotion and pagan practice.