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THE COUNCIL.
Two days later we started to recover Dingaan's cattle, sixty or seventy of us, all well armed and mounted.

With us went two of Dingaan's captains and a number of Zulus, perhaps a hundred, who were to drive the cattle if we recovered them.

As I could speak their language I was more or less in command of this Zulu contingent, and managed to make myself very useful in that capacity.

Also, during the month or so of our absence, by continually conversing with them, I perfected myself considerably in my knowledge of their beautiful but difficult tongue.
Now it is not my intention to write down the details of this expedition, during which there was no fighting and nothing serious happened.