Kill him by torture if you may, but kill him and bring his head to me.

Take that wife of his, who is known as Nada the Lily, alive if ye can, and bring her to me, for I would cause her to be slain here.

Bring the cattle also.

Now go, and go swiftly, this hour.

If ye return having failed in one jot of my command, ye die, every one of you--ye die, and slowly.
Begone!" The captain saluted, and, running to his regiment, issued a command.
Three full companies leapt forward at his word, and ran after him through the gates of the kraal Umgugundhlovu, heading for the Ghost Mountain.
Then Dingaan called to those who do the king's bidding, and, pointing to the two nobles, his councillors, who had heard the words of Zinita, commanded that they should be killed.
The nobles heard, and, having saluted the king, covered their faces, knowing that they must die because they had learned too much.