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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: them back a while from the world of ghosts. Had I sent them away
after that night of the declaration of war, they would have been
killed before they had gone an hour's journey. Oh! I am not so
bad as you think, Macumazahn, and I never break my word. Now I
have done."
"How goes the war?" I asked as he shuffled to his feet.
"As it must go, very ill for the Zulus. They have driven back
the white men who gather strength from over the Black Water and
will come on presently and wipe them out. Umnyamana would have
had Cetewayo invade Natal and sweep it clean, as of course he
should have done. But I sent him word that if he did so
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