Is that true ?" "No," I answered.

"I knew nothing of what was going to happen to the commission, though I feared something, having but just saved my friends there"-- and I pointed to the Prinsloos--"from death at the hands of Dingaan.

I did not wish to accompany it for another reason: that I had been married on the day of its starting to Marie Marais.

Still, I went after all because the General Retief, who was my friend, asked me to come, to interpret for him." Now some of the Boers present said: "That is true.

We remember." But the commandant continued, taking no heed of my answer or these interruptions.
"Do you acknowledge that you were on bad terms with Henri Marais and with Hernan Pereira ?" "Yes," I answered; "because Henri Marais did all in his power to prevent my marriage with his daughter Marie, behaving very ill to me who had saved his life and that of his people who remained to him up by Delagoa, and afterwards at Umgungundhlovu.