If I refuse to do as they bid me, then within a few days they will invade Zululand; indeed their soldiers are already gathered at the drifts." "It is not needful, King," answered Zikali, "since I know what all know, neither more nor less.

The winds whisper the demands of the white men, the birds sing them, the hyenas howl them at night.

Let us see how the matter stands.

When your father died Sompseu (Sir T.Shepstone), the great white chief, came from the English Government to name you king.

This he could not do according to our law, since how can a stranger name the King of the Zulus?
Therefore the Council of the Nation and the doctors--I was not among them, King--moved the spirit of Chaka the Lion into the body of Sompseu and made him as Chaka was and gave him power to name you to rule over the Zulus.