The other Boers they ignored completely.
This point of etiquette settled, Kambula bade me repeat what he had already told me, that we were prisoners whom he was instructed by Dingaan to convey to his Great Place, and that if we made no attempt to escape we should not be hurt upon the journey.
I did so, whereon the vrouw asked as I had done, who had informed Dingaan that we were coming.
I repeated to her word for word what the Zulus had told me, that it was Pereira, whose object seems to have been to bring about my death or capture.
Then the vrouw exploded.
"Do you hear that, Henri Marais ?" she screamed.

"It is your stinkcat of a nephew again.

Oh! I thought I smelt him! Your nephew has betrayed us to these Zulus that he may bring Allan to his death.

Ask them, Allan, what this Dingaan has done with the stinkcat." So I asked, and was informed they believed that the king had let Pereira go on to his own people in payment of the information that he had given him.
"My God!" said the vrouw, "I hoped that he had knocked him on the head.
Well, what is to be done now ?" "I don't know," I answered.

Then an idea occurred to me, and I said to Kambula: "It seems to be me, the son of George, that your king wants.