Dingaan was now offering odds of fifty cattle to one against me, but no one would take the bet even with the king.
On again visiting the chief Dingaan, they were again received with honour.
Dingaan knew him well, for every week he saw him, and sometimes oftener.
Dingaan looked upon the massacre of the farmers who had vainly trusted to his honour as only a commencement of hostilities.
Now Dingaan leapt up in his wrath and struck the man so sharply with the shaft of the spear he held that it broke upon his head.
