Ah! my father, if I had spoken, how many would have lived who were soon dead! But what does it matter?
In any case most of them would have been dead by now.
On the fourth morning, early, Dingaan sent a messenger to the Boers, bidding them meet him in the cattle kraal, for there he would mark the paper.

So they came, stacking their guns at the gate of the kraal, for it was death for any man, white or black, to come armed before the presence of the king.

Now, my father, the kraal Umgugundhlovu was built in a great circle, after the fashion of royal kraals.

First came the high outer fence, then the thousands of huts that ran three parts round between the great fence and the inner one.

Within this inner fence was the large open space, big enough to hold five regiments, and at the top of it--opposite the entrance--stood the cattle kraal itself, that cut off a piece of the open space by another fence bent like a bow.