Indeed, he ordered me to be conducted back to the camp at once that I might rest, and even sent one of his own attendants with me to hold a shield over my head as I walked so that I should be protected from the sun.
"Hamba gachle" (that is "Go softly"), said the wicked old tyrant to me as I departed under the guidance of Kambula.

"This afternoon, one hour before sundown, I will meet you at Hloma Amabutu, and there shall be settled the fate of these Amaboona, your companions." When I reached the camp it was to find all the Boers clustered together waiting for me, and with them the Reverend Mr.Owen and his people, including a Welsh servant of his, a woman of middle age who, I remember, was called Jane.
"Well," said the Vrouw Prinsloo, "and what is your news, young man ?" "My news, aunt," I answered, "is that one hour before sundown to-day I have to shoot vultures on the wing against the lives of all of you.

This you owe to that false-hearted hound Hernan Pereira, who told Dingaan that I am a magician.

Now Dingaan would prove it.

He thinks that only by magic can a man shoot soaring vultures with a bullet, and as he is determined to kill you all, except perhaps Marie, in the form of a bet he has set me a task which he believes to be impossible.