He said: 'Go, Bangu, and take a company with you and pay Matiwane a visit of honour, and in the night, O in the night! Afterwards, Bangu, we will divide the cattle, for Matiwane is strong and clever, and you shall not risk your life for nothing.'" Saduko paused and looked down at the ground, brooding heavily.
"Macumazahn, it was done," he said presently.

"They ate my father's meat, they drank his beer; they gave him a present from the king, they praised him with high names; yes, Bangu took snuff with him and called him brother.

Then in the night, O in the night--! "My father was in the hut with my mother, and I, so big only"-- and he held his hand at the height of a boy of ten--"was with them.

The cry arose, the flames began to eat; my father looked out and saw.

'Break through the fence and away, woman,' he said; 'away with Saduko, that he may live to avenge me.