Rise up swiftly and do this bidding, lest ye sit down shortly and for the last time of all.'" (1) (1) The Zulu are buried sitting.
Masilo heard, and said that it should be so, though the way was far, and he feared greatly to appear before him who was called the Slaughterer, and who sat twenty days' journey to the north, beneath the shadow of the Witch Mountain.
"Begone," said the king, "and stand before me on the thirtieth day from now with the answer of this boy with an axe! If thou standest not before me, then some shall come to seek thee and the boy with an axe also." So Masilo turned and fled swiftly to do the bidding of the king, and Chaka spoke no more of that matter.

But I wondered in my heart who this young man with an axe might be; for I thought that he had dealt with Jikiza and with the sons of Jikiza as Umslopogaas would have dealt with them had he come to the years of his manhood.

But I also said nothing of the matter.
Now on this day also there came to me news that my wife Macropha and my daughter Nada were dead among their people in Swaziland.

It was said that the men of the chief of the Halakazi tribe had fallen on their kraal and put all in it to the assegai, and among them Macropha and Nada.

I heard the news, but I wept no tear, for, my father, I was so lost in sorrows that nothing could move me any more..