Moreover, watchmen are always set at the gateways in the walls." "And where are the cattle ?" I asked again.
"Here, in the valley beneath, Macumazahn," answered the spokesman.

"If you listen you will hear them lowing.

Fifty men, not less, watch them at night--two thousand head of them, or more." "Then it would not be difficult to get round these cattle and drive them off, leaving Bangu to breed up a new herd ?" "It might not be difficult," interrupted Saduko, "but I came here to kill Bangu, as well as to seize his cattle, since with him I have a blood feud." "Very good," I answered; "but that mountain cannot be stormed with three hundred men, fortified as it is with walls and schanzes.

Our band would be destroyed before ever we came to the kraal, since, owing to the sentries who are set everywhere, it would be impossible to surprise the place.

Also you have forgotten the dogs, Saduko.