Thus speaks Mopo the inyanga, Mopo the doctor, who never yet prophesied that which should not be." Then we marched from the kraal Umgugundhlovu, and when next I saw that kraal it was to burn all of it which Dingaan had left unburnt, and when next I saw Dingaan--ah! that is to be told of, my father.
We marched from the kraal, none hindering us, for there were none to hinder, and after we had gone a little way Umslopogaas halted and said:-- "Now it is in my mind to return whence we came and slay this Dingaan, ere he slay me." "Yet it is well to leave a frightened lion in his thicket, my son, for a lion at bay is hard to handle.

Doubt not that every man, young and old, in Umgugundhlovu now stands armed about the gates, lest such a thought should take you, my son; and though just now he was afraid, yet Dingaan will strike for his life.

When you might have killed you did not kill; now the hour has gone." "Wise words!" said Galazi.

"I would that the Watcher had fallen where his shadow fell." "What is your counsel now, father ?" asked Umslopogaas.
"This, then: that you two should abide no more beneath the shadow of the Ghost Mountain, but should gather your people and your cattle, and pass to the north on the track of Mosilikatze the Lion, who broke away from Chaka.

There you may rule apart or together, and never dream of Dingaan." "I will not do that, father," he answered.