Because, too, Hernan Pereira strove to rob me of Marie, who loved me.

Moreover, although I had saved him when he lay sick to death, he afterwards tried to murder me by shooting me down in a lonely place.

Here is the mark of it," and I touched the little scar upon the side of my forehead.
"That is true; he did so, the stinkcat," shouted the Vrouw Prinsloo, and was ordered to be silent.
"Do you acknowledge," went on the commandant, "that you sent to warn your wife and those with her to depart from the camp on the Bushman's River, because it was going to be attacked, charging them to keep the matter secret, and that afterwards both you and your Hottentot servant alone returned safely from Zululand, where all those who went with you lie dead ?" "I acknowledge," I answered, "that I wrote to tell my wife to come to this place where I had been building houses, as you see, and to bring with her any of our companions who cared to trek here, or, failing that, to go alone.

This I did because Dingaan had told me, whether in jest or in earnest I did not know, that he had given orders that my said wife should be kidnapped, as he desired to make her one of his women, having thought her beautiful when he saw her.

Also what I did was done with the knowledge and by the wish of the late Governor Retief, as can be shown by his writing on my letter.