They came joyfully, but when they found how many were wanting who a moon before had gone thence to fight, their joy was turned to mourning, and the voice of their weeping went up to heaven.
Umslopogaas greeted Zinita kindly; and yet I thought that there was something lacking.

At first she spoke to him softly, but when she learned all that had come to pass, her words were not soft, for she reviled me and sang a loud song at Umslopogaas.
"See now, Slaughterer," she said, "see now what has came about because you listened to this aged fool!"-- that was I, my father--"this fool who calls himself 'Mouth'! Ay, a mouth he is, a mouth out of which proceed folly and lies! What did he counsel you to do ?--to go up against these Halakazi and win a girl for Dingaan! And what have you done ?--you have fallen upon the Halakazi, and doubtless have killed many innocent people with that great axe of yours, also you have left nearly half of the soldiers of the Axe to whiten in the Swazi caves, and in exchange have brought back certain cattle of a small breed, and girls and children whom we must nourish! "Nor does the matter end here.

You went, it seems, to win a girl whom Dingaan desired, yet when you find that girl you let her go, because, indeed, you say she was your sister and would not wed Dingaan.

Forsooth, is not the king good enough for this sister of yours?
Now what is the end of the tale?
You try to play tricks on the king, because of your sister, and are found out.

Then you kill a man before Dingaan and escape, bringing this fool of an aged Mouth with you, that he may teach you his own folly.