Afterwards I asked Kambula who had suffered this great slaughter, whereon he stared at me innocently and replied that he did not know of what I was speaking.
"What is the use of lying to me, Kambula, seeing that I shall find out the truth before long ?" "Then, Macumazahn, wait till you do find it out, and may it please you," he replied, and went off to speak with his people at a distance.
All that night I heard them talking off and on--I, who lay awake plunged into new miseries.

I was sure that some other dreadful thing had happened.

Probably Dingaan's armies had destroyed all the Boers, and, if so, oh! what had become of Marie?
Was she dead, or had she perhaps been taken prisoner, as Dingaan had told me would be done for his own vile purposes?
For aught I knew she might now be travelling under escort to Umgungundhlovu, as I was travelling to Natal.
The morning came at last, and that day, about noon, we reached a ford of the Tugela which luckily was quite passable.

Here Kambula bade me farewell, saying that his mission was finished.

Also he delivered to me a message that I was to give from Dingaan to the English in Natal.