He sat down on the floor of the cave, and I told him that beneath the earth on which he sat lay the bones of that Nada whom he had murdered and the bones of Galazi the Wolf.
On the third day before the dawn we came again and looked upon him.
"Slay me," he said, "for the Ghosts torment me!" "No longer art thou great, O shadow of a king," I said, "who now dost tremble before two Ghosts out of all the thousands that thou hast made.
Say, then, how shall it fare with thee presently when thou art of their number ?" Now Dingaan prayed for mercy.
"Mercy, thou hyena!" I answered, "thou prayest for mercy who showed none to any! Give me back my daughter.

Give this man back his wife and children; then we will talk of mercy.

Come forth, coward, and die the death of cowards." So, my father, we dragged him out, groaning, to the cleft that is above in the breast of the old Stone Witch, that same cleft where Galazi had found the bones.

There we stood, waiting for the moment of the dawn, that hour when Nada had died.

Then we cried her name into his ears and the names of the children of Umslopogaas, and cast him into the cleft.
This was the end of Dingaan, my father--Dingaan, who had the fierce heart of Chaka without its greatness..