What say you ?" Now, Saduko answered that he would rather attack the kraal, which he wished to burn.

But the old Amangwane, Tshoza, brother of the dead Matiwane, said: "No, Macumazahn, Watcher-by-Night, is wise.

Why should we waste our strength on stone walls, of which none know the number or can find the gates in the darkness, and thereby leave our skulls to be set up as ornaments on the fences of the accursed Amakoba?
Let us draw the Amakoba out into the pass of the mountains, where they have no walls to protect them, and there fall on them when they are bewildered and settle the matter with them man to man.

As for the women and children, with Macumazahn I say let them go; afterwards, perhaps, they will become _our_ women and children." "Aye," answered the Amangwane, "the plan of the white Inkoosi is good; he is clever as a weasel; we will have his plan and no other." So Saduko was overruled and my counsel adopted.
All that day we rested, lighting no fires and remaining still as the dead in the dense bush.

It was a very anxious day, for although the place was so wild and lonely, there was always the fear lest we should be discovered.