"You say that you are English and therefore serve your king, or the Inkosikaas" (that is the Great Lady), "who they tell me now sits in his place.

How does it come about then that you are travelling with a party of these very Amaboona who must be your enemies, since they are the enemies of your king, or of her who follows after him ?" Now I knew that I was in a tight place, for on this matter of loyalty, Zulu, and indeed all native ideas, are very primitive.

If I said that I had sympathy with the Boers, Dingaan would set me down as a traitor.

If I said that I hated the Boers, then still I should be a traitor because I associated with them, and a traitor in his eyes would be one to be killed.

I do not like to talk religion, and anyone who has read what I have written in various works will admit that I have done so rarely, if ever.