If I run towards my own people, the English cliff falls upon me, and in either case I am crushed and no more seen.

Tell me then, Macumazahn, you whose heart is honest, what must I do ?" So he spoke, wringing his hands, with tears starting to his eyes, and upon my word, although I never liked Cetewayo as I had liked his father, Panda, perhaps because I loved his brother, Umbelazi, whom he killed, and had known him do many cruel deeds, my heart bled for him.
"I cannot tell you, King," I answered, thinking that I must say something, "but I pray you do not make war against the queen, for she is the most mighty One in the whole earth, and though her foot, of which you see but the little toe here in Africa, seems small to you, yet if she is angered, it will stamp the Zulus flat, so that they cease to be." "Many have told me this, Macumazahn.

Yes, even Uhamu, the son of my uncle Unzibe, or, as some say, the son of his spirit, to which his mother was married after Unzibe was dead, and others throughout the land, and in truth I think it myself.

But who can hold the army which shouts for war?
Ow! the Council must decide, which, means perhaps that Zikali will decide, for now all hang upon his lips." "Then I am sorry," I exclaimed.
He looked at me shrewdly.
"Are you?
So am I.

Yet his counsel must be asked, and better that it should be here in my presence than yonder secretly at the Black Kloof.