The king would settle the matter as to whether some of us were to be killed and some let free, or if all were to be killed or let free, when we reached his House.

Therefore he commanded that "we should tie the oxen to the moving huts and cross the river at once." This was the end of that scene.

Having no choice we inspanned and continued our journey, escorted by the company of two hundred savages.
I am bound to say that during the four or five days that it took us to reach Dingaan's kraal they behaved very well to us.

With Kambula and his officers, all of them good fellows in their way, I had many conversations, and from them learned much as to the state and customs of the Zulus.

Also the peoples of the districts through which we passed flocked round us at every outspan, for most of them had never seen a white man before, and in return for a few beads brought us all the food that we required.