This lad knew both Dutch and Zulu, and acted as interpreter to the Owen family during the absence on a journey of a certain Mr.Hulley, who really filled that office.

While this conversation was taking place in Dutch he was engaged in rendering every word of it into English for the benefit of the clergyman and his family.

When Mr.Owen understood the full terror of the situation, he broke in saying: "This is not a time to eat or to sleep, but a time to pray that the heart of the savage Dingaan may be turned.

Come, let us pray!" "Yes," rejoined Vrouw Prinsloo, when William Wood had translated.

"Do you pray, predicant, and all the rest of you who have nothing else to do, and while you are about it pray also that the bullets of Allan Quatermain may not be turned.