Listen! Dingaan is not what Chaka was, though, like Chaka, he is cruel.

This Dingaan is a fool, and it may well come about that a man can be found who, growing up in his shadow, in the end shall overshadow him.

I might do it--I myself; but I am old, and, being worn with sorrow, have no longing to rule.

But you are young, Umslopogaas, and there is no man like you in the land.

Moreover, there are other matters of which it is not well to speak, that shall serve you as a raft whereon to swim to power." Now Umslopogaas glanced up sharply, for in those days he was ambitious, and desired to be first among the people.