I tell it? The
snow has melted, your cattle have been found where I told you they
should be, and you wish to be gone. And I also, I would be gone upon a
longer journey.

Listen, my father, I will be short. This came into my mind: to play off
Panda against Dingaan; it was for such an hour of need that I had saved
Panda alive. After the battle of the Blood River, Dingaan summoned Panda
to a hunt. Then it was that I journeyed to the kraal of Panda on the
Lower Tugela, and with me Umslopogaas. I warned Panda that he should not
go to this hunt, for he was the game himself, but that he should rather
fly into Natal with all his people. He did so, and then I opened
talk with the Boers, and more especially with that Boer who was named
Ungalunkulu, or Great Arm. I showed the Boer that Dingaan was wicked and
not to be believed, but Panda was faithful and good. The end of it was
that the Boers and Panda made war together on Dingaan. Yes, I made that
war that we might be revenged on Dingaan. Thus, my father, do little
things lead to great.

Were we at the big fight, the battle of Magongo? Yes, my father; we were
there. When Dingaan's people drove us back, and all seemed lost, it was
I who put into the mind of Nongalaza, the general, to pretend to direct
the Boers where to attack, for the Amaboona stood out of that fight,
leaving it to us black people. It was Umslopogaas who cut his way with
Groan-Maker through a wing of one of Dingaan's regiments till he came
to the Boer captain Ungalunkulu, and shouted to him to turn the flank of
Dingaan. That finished it, my father, for they feared to stand against
us both, the white and the black together. They fled, and we followed
and slew, and Dingaan ceased to be a king.

He ceased to be a king, but he still lived, and while he lived our
vengeance was hungry. So we went to the Boer captain and to Panda, and
spoke to them nicely, saying, "We have served you well, we have fought
for you, and so ordered things that victory is yours. Now grant us this
request, that we may follow Dingaan, who has fled into hiding, and
kill him wherever we find him, for he has worked us wrong, and we would
avenge it."

Then the white captain and Panda smiled and said, "Go children, and
prosper in your search. No one thing shall please us more than to know
that Dingaan is dead." And they gave us men to go with us.

Then we hunted that king week by week as men hunt a wounded buffalo. We
hunted him to the jungle