At length old Sigananda said-- "O King, it is well known that the Black One who went before you had a certain little assegai handled with the royal red wood, which drank the blood of many.

It was with this assegai that Mopo his servant, who vanished from the land after the death of Dingaan, let out the life of the Black One at the kraal Duguza, but what became of it afterwards none have heard for certain.
Some say that it was buried with the Black One, some that Mopo stole it.

Others that Dingaan and Umhlagana burned it.

Still a saying rose like a wind in the land that when that spear shall fall from heaven at the feet of the king who reigns in the place of the Black One, then the Zulus shall make their last great war and win a victory of which all the world shall hear.

Now let the Opener of Roads give us this sign of the falling of the Black One's spear and I shall be content." "Would you know the spear if it fell ?" asked Cetewayo.
"I should know it, O King, who have often held it in my hand.
The end of the haft is gnawed, for when he was angry the Black One used to bite it.