lest our voices should be
recognised by him; further, we had been careful to leave nothing which
might lead to suspicion travelling our way. We were now safe within the
outposts, and in the huge camp we could easily pass unnoticed. It was
time to separate, and as we did so Nangeza said:

"`Farewell now, Untuswa. Have patience and courage. I shall see thee
an _induna_ yet.'

"`That may be so,' I answered rather gloomily, for now that the
adventure was over all my foreboding and disappointment came back. `But
we have only seen the first of this night's doings. The last may wear a
very different sort of countenance.'

"And thus we parted.

"Now, _Nkose_, a portion of my gloom came of the knowledge of what would
happen to the sentinel whom we had overpowered. Death would be his lot
as surely as though I had driven my spear through his heart. I had a
mind to go back and loose him, but that would mean giving my life for
his, and I was not tired of life just yet. Moreover, it would mean the
sacrifice of Nangeza also, and it were better that one person should
perish than that two should. Yet, being still young and soft of heart,
I felt sad as I thought of the doomed sentinel."

CHAPTER SEVEN.

THE FATE OF THE SENTINEL.

"When I told Nangeza that we had seen but the beginning of the night's
doings, _Nkose_, I spoke no more than the truth. The sentinel whom we
had overpowered was found towards morning just as we had left him--tied
and gagged; yet not, for he had managed to roll over and over until he
came near enough to another outpost, who was about to fling a spear
through him, thinking it an enemy approaching in the darkness. Better,
indeed, if he had.

"Now, if there was one thing upon which Umzilikazi was strict, one rule
the punishment of violating which, in the very smallest degree, was
certain and merciless, that, was military discipline. By such
discipline the great King Tshaka had become great, and with him the Zulu
people; and it Umzilikazi, the founder and first King of a new nation,
was resolved to maintain at its highest. So when heralds went round at
an early hour crying aloud that all must assemble before the
King--_indunas_ and fighting men, women and children, boys and old men
who were past bearing arms; not one of whatever estate was to be absent
on pain of death--when the people heard this, I say, many feared, but
none were surprised. All thought there was to be a great `smelling