"What!" she went on, "do you not live here in peace and plenty, and must you go to make war on those who have not harmed you; there, perhaps, to perish or to come to other ill?
You say you do this to win a girl for Dingaan and to find favour in his sight.

Has not Dingaan girls more than he can count?
It is more likely that, wearying of us, your wives, you go to get girls for yourself, Bulalio; and as for finding favour, rest quiet, so shall you find most favour.

If the king sends his impis against you, then it will be time to fight, O fool with little wit!" Thus Zinita spoke to him, very roughly--for she always blurted out what was in her mind, and Umslopogaas could not challenge her to battle.

So he must bear her talk as best he might, for it is often thus, my father, that the greatest of men grow small enough in their own huts.

Moreover, he knew that it was because Zinita loved him that she spoke so bitterly.
Now on the third day all the fighting-men were gathered, and there might have been two thousand of them, good men and brave.