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Q.] A few days later, when I was up and about again, although I had not ventured into the kraal, Panda sent a messenger to me with a present of an ox.

On his behalf this man congratulated me on my recovery, and told me that, whatever might have happened to others, I was to have no fear for my own safety.

He added that Cetewayo had sworn to the King that not a hair of my head should be harmed, in these words: "Had I wished to kill Watcher-by-Night because he fought against me, I could have done so down at Endondakusuka; but then I ought to kill you also, my father, since you sent him thither against his will with your own regiment.

But I like him well, who is brave and who brought me good tidings that the Prince, my enemy, was dead of a broken heart.