Then Dingaan was angry, and he would have gathered his impis and sent them against the Halakazi to destroy them, and bring him the maid, but I held him back from it, saying that now was no time to begin a new war; and it is for this cause that Dingaan hates me, he is so set upon the plucking of the Swazi Lily.

Do you understand now, Umslopogaas ?" "Something," he answered.

"But speak clearly." "Wow, Umslopogaas! Half words are better than whole ones in this land of ours.

Listen, then! This is my plan: that you should fall upon the Halakazi tribe, destroy it, and bring back the maid as a peace-offering to Dingaan." "That is a good plan, my father," he answered.

"At the least, maid or no maid, there will be fighting in it, and cattle to divide when the fighting is done." "First conquer, then reckon up the spoils, Umslopogaas." Now he thought awhile, then said, "Suffer that I summon Galazi the Wolf, my captain.