I dreamed that you were called a king, and that all the regiments of the Zulus filed past giving you the royal salute, Bayete." Umslopogaas looked at her wondering, for he did not know if she had learned something or if this was an omen.

"Such dreams are dangerous," he said, "and he who dreams them does well to lock them fast till they be forgotten." "Or fulfilled," said Zinita, and again Umslopogaas looked at her wondering.
Now after this night I began my work, for I established spies at the kraal of Dingaan, and from them I learned all that passed with the king.
At first he gave orders that an impi should be summoned to eat up the People of the Axe, but afterwards came tidings that the Boers, to the number of five hundred mounted men, were marching on the kraal Umgugundhlovu.

So Dingaan had no impi to spare to send to the Ghost Mountain, and we who were beneath its shadow dwelt there in peace.
This time for Boers were beaten, for Bogoza, the spy, led them into an ambush; still few were killed, and they did but draw back that they might jump the further, and Dingaan knew this.

At this time also the English white men of Natal, the people of George, who attacked Dingaan by the Lower Tugela, were slain by our soldiers, and those with them.
Also, by the help of certain witch-doctors, I filled the land with rumours, prophecies, and dark sayings, and I worked cunningly on the minds of many chiefs that were known to me, sending them messages hardly to be understood, such as should prepare their thoughts for the coming of one who should be declared to them.

They listened, but the task was long, for the men dwelt far apart, and some of them were away with the regiments.
So the time went by, till many days had passed since we reached the Ghost Mountain.