We stabbed the men and seized him.
Dingaan looked at us and knew us, and his knees trembled with fear.

Then I spoke:-- "What was that message which I sent thee, O Dingaan, who art no more a king--that thou didst evil to drive me away, was it not?
because I set thee on thy throne and I alone could hold thee there ?" He made no answer, and I went on:-- "I, Mopo, son of Makedama, set thee on thy throne, O Dingaan, who wast a king, and I, Mopo, have pulled thee down from thy throne.

But my message did not end there.

It said that, ill as thou hadst done to drive me away, yet worse shouldst thou do to look upon my face again, for that day should be thy day of doom." Still he made no answer.

Then Umslopogaas spoke:-- "I am that Slaughterer, O Dingaan, no more a king, whom thou didst send Slayers many and fierce to eat up at the kraal of the People of the Axe.
Where are thy Slayers now, O Dingaan?
Before all is done thou shalt look upon them." "Kill me and make an end; it is your hour," said Dingaan.
"Not yet awhile, O son of Senzangacona," answered Umslopogaas, "and not here.