Even in Zululand, where all the men are brave, they called thee the "Slaughterer", and at night told stories round the fire of thy strength and deeds.
Hear me now.

Thou seest this great man, my friend' -- and I pointed to Sir Henry; 'he also is a warrior as great as thou, and, strong as thou art, he could throw thee over his shoulder.
Incubu is his name.

And thou seest this one also; him with the round stomach, the shining eye, and the pleasant face.

Bougwan (glass eye) is his name, and a good man is he and a true, being of a curious tribe who pass their life upon the water, and live in floating kraals.
'Now, we three whom thou seest would travel inland, past Dongo Egere, the great white mountain (Mt Kenia), and far into the unknown beyond.

We know not what we shall find there; we go to hunt and seek adventures, and new places, being tired of sitting still, with the same old things around us.