However, he can tell you all about that himself, for I have brought him with me to show us the path to Dingaan's kraal.

Where is Pereira?
Send Pereira here.

I want to speak with him." "Here I am," answered a sleepy voice, the hated voice of Pereira himself, from the other side of a thick bush, where he had been slumbering.

"What is it, commandant?
I come," and he emerged, stretching himself and yawning, just as the remainder of my party came up.

He caught sight of Henri Marais first of all, and began to greet him, saying: "Thank God, my uncle, you are safe!" Then his eyes fell on me, and I do not think I ever saw a man's face change more completely.