Each of these ladies struggled to be first after him in the gate, thinking that it would be an omen of success for her son.

Finally, however, to the disappointment of the multitude, they only succeeded in passing it side by side.
When they had gone the great audience began to break up, the men of each party marching away together as though by common consent, without offering any insult or molestation to their adversaries.

I think that this peaceable attitude arose, however, from the knowledge that matters had now passed from the stage of private quarrel into that of public war.

It was felt that their dispute awaited decision, not with sticks outside the Nodwengu kraal, but with spears upon some great battlefield, for which they went to prepare.
Within two days, except for those regiments which Panda kept to guard his person, scarcely a soldier was to be seen in the neighbourhood of Nodwengu.

The princes also departed to muster their adherents, Cetewayo establishing himself among the Mandhlakazi that he commanded, and Umbelazi returning to the kraal of Umbezi, which happened to stand almost in the centre of that part of the nation which adhered to him.
Whether he took Mameena with him there I am not certain.