Let the huts be built forthwith, and when it is known that he is coming, let food in plenty be placed in them and afterwards morning by morning taken to the mouth of the valley.

Bid him announce his arrival and the hour he chooses for our meeting by messenger.

Begone." Goza leapt up, gave the royal salute, and retreated backwards from the presence of the king, leaving us alone.

I also rose to depart, but Cetewayo motioned to me to be seated.
"Macumazahn," he said, "the Great Queen's man who has come to Natal (Sir Bartle Frere) threatens me with war because two evil-doing women were taken on the Natal side of the Tugela and brought back to Zululand and killed by Mehlokazulu, being the wives of his father, Sirayo, which was done without my knowledge.
Also two white men were driven away from an island in the Tugela River by some of my soldiers." "Is that all, O King ?" I asked.
"No.

The Queen's man says I kill my people without trial, which is a lie told him by the missionaries, and that girls have been killed also who refused to marry those to whom they were given and ran away with other men.