Perhaps, my father, there were sixty full wagonloads of dry wood piled together there in the centre of the place.
"Thou shalt see with thine eyes, White Man," he answered, and bidding attendants set fire to the pile all round, he summoned that regiment of young men which was left in the kraal.

Maybe there were a thousand and half a thousand of them--not more--the same that had slain the Boers.
Now the fire began to burn fiercely, and the regiment filed in and took its place in ranks.

By the time that all had come, the pyre was everywhere a sheet of raging flame, and, though we sat a hundred paces from it, its heat was great when the wind turned our way.
"Now, Doctor of Prayers, is thy hot place hotter than yonder fire ?" said the king.
He answered that he did not know, but the fire was certainly hot.
"Then I will show thee how I will come out of it if ever I go to lie in such a fire--ay, though it be ten times as big and fierce.

Ho! my children!" he cried to the soldiers, and, springing up, "You see yonder fire.

Run swiftly and stamp it flat with your feet.