Is it a true word ?" "It is." "I hear that you go even to the Lukanga River, a moon's journey beyond the Manica country.

Is this so also, 'Macumazahn ?'" "Why do you ask whither we go?
What is it to you ?" I answered suspiciously, for the objects of our journey had been kept a dead secret.
"It is this, O white men, that if indeed you travel so far I would travel with you." There was a certain assumption of dignity in the man's mode of speech, and especially in his use of the words "O white men," instead of "O Inkosis," or chiefs, which struck me.
"You forget yourself a little," I said.

"Your words run out unawares.
That is not the way to speak.

What is your name, and where is your kraal?
Tell us, that we may know with whom we have to deal." "My name is Umbopa.

I am of the Zulu people, yet not of them.