Let us go on boldly." So we walked forward towards the impi that was gathered on the further side of the kraal.

Now the two great men who were marshalling the soldiers saw us, and came to meet us, one following the other.

He who came first bore the axe upon his shoulder, and he who followed swung a huge club.

I looked upon the foremost of them, and ah! my father, my heart grew faint with joy, for I knew him across the years.

It was Umslopogaas! my fosterling, Umslopogaas! and none other, now grown into manhood--ay, into such a man as was not to be found beside him in Zululand.