Is there anything else you would like to learn ?" "Yes, Zikali; how old ?" "There, there, Macumazahn, as you know, we poor Kafirs cannot count very well.

How old?
Well, when I was young I came down towards the coast from the Great River, you call it the Zambesi, I think, with Undwandwe, who lived in the north in those days.

They have forgotten it now because it is some time ago, and if I could write I would set down the history of that march, for we fought some great battles with the people who used to live in this country.

Afterwards I was the friend of the Father of the Zulus, he whom they still call Inkoosi Umkulu--the mighty chief--you may have heard tell of him.

I carved that stool on which you sit for him and he left it back to me when he died." "Inkoosi Umkulu!" I exclaimed.