Durban.
Literally "The Bay"] said the King. "They are my friends, but not of
this new race. It may be that they will aid me to get rid of these
Amabuna."

But Tambusa, who hated all whites, opposed this idea of the King's. The
people at Tegwini, he urged, would stand by these other whites and
support them. White was white, and black was black, and all white
people stood together against black, although they professed very great
friendship when but a mere handful, and had anything to gain by it. He
had always objected to this handful of English being allowed to remain
at Tegwini from the very first. If it was inexpedient to kill them they
should have been sent away right out of the country.

In this counsel Tambusa was right, as subsequent events proved; but,
_Nkose_, few men would have dared to speak their minds thus boldly. But
Tambusa although he hated me, I could not but regard with respect as a
brave man, and as such he lived and died, as will be shown.

"And thou, Untuswa," said Dingane, "thou hast fought these Amabuna.
What is thy mind in this matter?"

"It is that of Tambusa, Great Great One," I answered. "These Amabuna
fight hard and die hard, nor is their word to be trusted. He whom I
served knew how to handle them--and there is but one way." Then I told
that tale of how they would have enslaved our nation, and how they
plotted with certain of Umzilikazi's _izinduna_ to procure the death of
that king; and all who heard me murmured aloud that there was but one
way for these people, and that was the way of the spear.

"A swarm of locusts beaten off returns again," I ended, "and again and
again, until the land is eaten up; but a swarm of locusts stamped
flat--_au_! there is no more of that swarm. That is my counsel, Lion of
Zulu."

And again all murmured aloud in approval of my words, for it was
intolerable to us that these strangers should swarm down upon the land,
not even so much as asking leave of the King; and this, _Nkose_, I felt,
as though I had done _konza_ to the House of Senzangakona all my life,
instead of growing great in the service of another king; for, after all,
this was the land of my birth--this people the parent race from which we
were all proud to have sprung. Moreover, for the present, I thought no
more of my revenge. Here was more than one great and glorious battle
awaiting; it was long since I had taken part in such a one, and the
blood rushed and danced in my veins at t