Moreover, I know that you are not one who stabs in the dark, even when our peoples growl round each other like two dogs about to fight, and if you were, in this place your life would have to pay for mine.

There is beer by your side; drink and fear nothing.

Did you see the Opener of Roads, Goza, and if so, what is his answer to my message ?" "O King, I saw him," answered Goza.

"The Father of the doctors, the friend and master of the Spirits, says he has heard the King's word, yes, that he heard it as it passed the King's lips, and that although he is very old, he will travel to Ulundi and be present at the Great Council of the nation which is to be summoned on the eighth day from this, that of the full moon.

Yet he makes a prayer of the King.