All the rest were gone to slaughter the Boers in Natal.

Still, he must have blood, so he turned on me.
"Thou art a traitor, Mopo, as I have known for long, and I will serve thee as yonder dog served his faithless servant!" and he thrust at me with the assegai in his hand.
But I saw the stroke, and, springing high into the air, avoided it.
Then I turned and fled very swiftly, and after me came certain of the soldiers.

The way was not far to the last company of the People of the Axe; moreover, it saw me coming, and, headed by Umslopogaas, who walked behind them all, ran to meet me.

Then the soldiers who followed to kill me hung back out of reach of the axe.
"Here with the king is no place for me any more, my son," I said to Umslopogaas.
"Fear not, my father, I will find you a place," he answered.
Then I called a message to the soldiers who followed me, saying:-- "Tell this to the king: that he has done ill to drive me from him, for I, Mopo, set him on the throne and I alone can hold him there.

Tell him this also, that he will do yet worse to seek me where I am, for that day when we are once more face to face shall be his day of death.