Then he commanded Zinita to draw near and tell him that tale.
Now behind the stool on which he sat stood two councillors, nobles whom Dingaan loved, and these alone had heard the last words of Zinita.

He bade these nobles stand in front of him, out of earshot and away from every other man.

Then Zinita drew near, and told Dingaan the tale of the birth of Umslopogaas and all that followed, and, by many a token and many a deed of Chaka's which he remembered, Dingaan the king knew that it was a true story.
When at length she had done, he summoned the captain of the regiment that stood around: he was a great man named Faku, and he also summoned certain men who do the king's bidding.

To the captain of the impi he spoke sharply, saying:-- "Take three companies and guides, and come by night to the town of the People of the Axe, that is by Ghost Mountain, and burn it, and slay all the wizards who sleep therein.

Most of all, slay the Chief of the People, who is named Bulalio the Slaughterer or Umslopogaas.