I had greeted the Vrouw Prinsloo and all my other friends, and been received by them with rapture as one risen from the dead.

If they had loved me before, now a new gratitude was added to their love, since had it not been for my warning they also must have made acquaintance with the Zulu spears and perished.

It was on their part of the camp that the worst of the attack fell.

Indeed, from those wagons hardly anyone escaped.
I had told them all the story, to which they listened in dead silence.
Only when it was finished the Heer Meyer, whose natural gloom had been deepened by all these events, said: "Allemachte! but you have luck, Allan, to be left when everyone else is taken.

Now, did I not know you so well, like Hernan Pereira I should think that you and that devil Dingaan had winked at each other." The Vrouw Prinsloo turned on him furiously.
"How dare you say such words, Carl Meyer ?" she exclaimed.