"But perhaps you are also a liar.

Or are you a praying man, like that fool yonder, who is named Oweena ?"--he meant the missionary Mr.Owen--"whom I spare because it is not lucky to kill one who is mad, although he tries to frighten my soldiers with tales of a fire into which they will go after they are dead.

As though it matters what happens to them after they are dead!" he added reflectively, taking a pinch of snuff.
"I am no liar," I answered.

"What have I to lie about ?" "You would lie to save your own life, for all white men are cowards; not like the Zulus, who love to die for their king.

But how are you named ?" "Your people call me Macumazahn." "Well, Macumazahn, if you are no liar, tell me, is it true that these Boers rebelled against their king who was named George, and fled from him as the traitor Umsilikazi did from me ?" "Yes," I answered, "that is true." "Now I am sure that you are a liar," said Dingaan triumphantly.