If you do not believe what I tell you, ask this man who is with me, and his companions who are of your own race.

They will tell you everything." Then the captain Kambula called my servant apart and talked with him for a long while.
When the interview was finished he advanced to me and said: "Now I have heard all about you.

I have heard that although young you are very clever, so clever that you do not sleep, but watch by night as well as by day.

Therefore, that I, Kambula, name you Macumazahn, Watcher-by-night, and by that name you shall henceforth be known among us.

Now, Macumazahn, son of George, bring out these Boers whom you are guiding that I may lead them in their moving huts to the Great Place, Umgungundhlovu, where dwells Dingaan the king.