Still, Dingaan sent for the white man that he might dispute with him, for Dingaan thought that he himself was the cleverest of all men.
Now the white man came, but his face was pale, because of that which he had seen befall the Boers, for he was gentle and hated such sights.

The king bade him be seated and spoke to him saying:-- "The other day, O White Man, thou toldest me of a place of fire whither those go after death who have done wickedly in life.

Tell me now of thy wisdom, do my fathers lie in that place ?" "How can I know, King," answered the prayer-doctor, "who may not judge of the deeds of men?
This I say only: that those who murder and rob and oppress the innocent and bear false witness shall lie in that place of fire." "It seems that my fathers have done all these things, and if they are in this place I would go there also, for I am minded to be with my fathers at the last.

Yet I think that I should find a way to escape if ever I came there." "How, King ?" Now Dingaan had set this trap for the prayer-doctor.

In the centre of that open space where he had caused the Boers to be fallen upon he had built up a great pyre of wood--brushwood beneath, and on top of the brushwood logs, and even whole trees.