Now let us come to more important details." So we fell to discussing the scheme, route and details of our proposed journey.

Expenditure being practically no object, there were several plans open to us.

We might sail up the coast and go by Kilwa, as I had done on the search for the Holy Flower, or we might retrace the line of our retreat from the Mazitu country which ran through Zululand.

Again, we might advance by whatever road we selected with a small army of drilled and disciplined retainers, trusting to force to break a way through to the Kendah.

Or we might go practically unaccompanied, relying on our native wit and good fortune to attain our ends.