Chapter 24 THE SLAYING OF THE BOERS

On the morrow I led Umslopogaas apart, and spoke to him thus:- "My son, yesterday, when you did not know me except as the Mouth of Dingaan, you charged me with a certain message for Dingaan the king, that, had it been delivered into the ears of the king, had surely brought death upon you and all your people. The tree that stands by itself on a plai