Or if not, it must be when we return.

Listen now; do not disappoint me in this matter, Allan.

None of us can speak Zulu except you, who takes to these savage languages like a duck to water, and I want you to be my interpreter with Dingaan.

Also the king specially asked that you should come with me when I brought the cattle, as he seems to have taken a great fancy to you.

He said that you would render his words honestly, but that he did not trust the lad whom he has there to translate into Dutch and English.