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Down the stream of Time they marched in their marshalled regiments. Chaka stood over her she knew him by his likeness to Dingaan and threatened her with a little, red-handled spear, asking her how she dared to sit upon the throne of the Spirit of his nation.
Then I stood still waiting to be killed, for, my father, in the fury of my heart at the wickedness which had been worked I could not hold back my words. Thrice Dingaan looked on me with a terrible face, and yet there was fear in his face striving with its rage, and I waited calmly to see which would conquer, the fear or the rage.
This occupied a long time, as these Boers were widely scattered, and at each camp we had to stop for several days while Retief explained everything to its leaders. Also he arranged with them to come down into Natal, so as to be ready to people it as soon as he received the formal cession of the country from Dingaan.
"Did you visit the Inkosazana to-day, White Man?" asked the King blandly, while the indunas stared at him with grim amusement. Then Ishmael broke out into a recital of his wrongs, demanding that the captains who had beaten him, a white man, and a great person, should be killed. "Silence," said Dingaan at length.
"Have you come to lead me out of Zululand, Tamboosa?" "Nay, White One," he answered, "the land needs you yet awhile. I have come to tell you that Dingaan would speak with your servant Noie, if it be your good pleasure to let her visit him. Fear not. No harm shall come to her, if it does you may order me to be put to death. You, yourself, could not be safer than she shall be."
Bid them say to Darrien, that the Inkosazana-y-Zoola, she who stood with him once on the rock in the river while the lightnings fell and the lions roared about them, sends him greetings and awaits him." Now Dingaan turned to an induna and said, "Go, do the bidding of the Inkosazana.
Perhaps it will be given to me to live a little while after ye are gone, and I may bring them to their ears." "Can we not rise up now and fall upon Chaka?" asked Dingaan. "It is not possible," I said; "the king is guarded." "Hast thou no plan, Mopo?" groaned Umhlangana. "Methinks thou hast a plan to save us." "And if I have a plan, ye Princes, what shall be my reward?
"You kept that promise with an assegai let me look, let me look into your heart yes, with a little assegai handled with the royal red wood, an assegai that had drunk much blood." Now a low moan broke from the lips of Dingaan, and those who sat with them, while Umbopa shivered as though with cold. "Have mercy, I pray thee," he gasped.
Bidding him to cease from his salutations, she commanded him to go swiftly to the Great Place and pray of Dingaan that he would send her an escort and a litter, as she must see him that night on a matter which would not brook delay. In an hour, just after she had finished her food, which she ate with more appetite than she had known for days, it was reported that they were there.
This was their purpose: to get a grant of the land in Natal that lies between the Tugela and the Umzimoubu rivers. But, by my council and that of other indunas, Dingaan, bargained with the Boers that first they should attack a certain chief named Sigomyela, who had stolen some of the king's cattle, and who lived near the Quathlamba Mountains, and bring back those cattle.
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