We let him into the laager and asked him the news.
"This is the news, white men," he said.

"I waited till dark, and creeping up to the place where the Zulus are encamped, hid myself behind a stone and listened.

They are a great regiment of Umtetwas as Baas Botha yonder thought.

They struck the spoor of the waggons three days ago and followed it.

To-night they sleep upon their spears, to-morrow at daybreak they will attack the laager and kill everybody.