Then cut my throat, here is my big knife, and afterwards cut your own, if you have not time to load the gun again and shoot yourself, which is easier." I nodded, for it was in my mind to do these things.

Never could I stand still and see those poor Boers killed, and I knew that Marie would look after herself.
Meanwhile, the Zulus were coming towards me, and the soldiers who had charge of them were driving up Marais's people, making pretence to thrust them through with their assegais, and shouting at them as men do at cattle.

Both parties arrived in the depression at about the same time, but remained separated by a little space.

In this space lay the corpses of the murdered men and the two dead aasvogels, with Hans and myself standing opposite to them.
"Well, little Son of George," puffed Dingaan, "you have lost your bet, for you did but kill two vultures out of five with your magic, which was good as far as it went, but not good enough.

Now you must pay, as I would have paid had you won." Then he stretched out his hand, and issued the dreadful order of "Bulala amalongu!" (Kill the white people).