Of the incident of the Missionary and the furnace of logs, it is impossible to speak so certainly.

It came to the writer from the lips of an old traveller in "the Zulu"; but he cannot discover any confirmation of it.

Still, these kings undoubtedly put their soldiers to many tests of equal severity.
Umbopo, or Mopo, as he is named in this tale, actually lived.

After he had stabbed Chaka, he rose to great eminence.

Then he disappears from the scene, but it is not accurately known whether he also went "the way of the assegai," or perhaps, as is here suggested, came to live near Stanger under the name of Zweete.