Come back with the cattle, and I will listen to you, but meanwhile understand that I am not bound to you or to anyone; I shall take what my spirit sends me, which, if I may judge the future by the past, will not be much.

One word more: Do not linger about this kraal too long, lest it should be said that you are the accepted suitor of Mameena.

Go hence and do a man's work, and return with a man's reward, or not at all.'" [*--In Zululand a son-in-law is known as "isigodo so mkwenyana", the "son-in-law log," for the reason stated in the text .-- EDITOR.] "Well, Saduko, that spear has an edge on it, has it not ?" I answered.
"And now, what is your plan ?" "My plan is, Macumazahn," he said, rising from his seat, "to go hence and gather those who are friendly to me because I am my father's son and still the chief of the Amangwane, or those who are left of them, although I have no kraal and no hoof of kine.

Then, within a moon, I hope, I shall return here to find you strong again and once more a man, and we will start out against Bangu, as I have whispered to you, with the leave of a High One, who has said that, if I can take any cattle, I may keep them for my pains." "I don't know about that, Saduko.

I never promised you that I would make war upon Bangu--with or without the king's leave." "No, you never promised, but Zikali the Dwarf, the Wise Little One, said that you would--and does Zikali lie?
Ask yourself, who will remember a certain saying of his about a buffalo with a cleft horn, a pool and a dry river-bed.