I don't know why they came, but I think it was because our chief would not send men to help Chaka against Zweete." She stopped, gave a great cry, and died.
My sister wept at the sight, and I too was stirred by it.

"Ah!" I thought to myself, "the Great Spirit must be evil.

If he is not evil such things would not happen." That is how I thought then, my father; now I think differently.

I know that we had not found out the path of the Great Spirit, that is all.

I was a chicken in those days, my father; afterwards I got used to such sights.