I should add that the Prinsloos and the Meyers also made arrangements for the building of similar shelters almost alongside of my own.

This done, I returned to Marie and the trek-Boers.
On the morning after my return to the camp Piet Retief appeared there with his five or six companions.

I asked him how he had got on with Dingaan.
"Well enough, nephew," he answered.

"At first the king was somewhat angry, saying that we Boers had stolen six hundred head of his cattle.
But I showed him that it was the chief, Sikonyela, who lives yonder on the Caledon River, who had dressed up his people in white men's clothes and put them upon horses, and afterwards drove the cattle through one of our camps to make it appear that we were the thieves.

Then he asked me what was my object in visiting him.