30 UMPANDA, THE KING OF THE AMAZULU. 
Umpanda, who condemned Mungkainyana to death. He, however, found an opportunity to escape across the boundary 
line, where he now dwells in a kraal of his own on the British side of the Tugala river. 
When Dingaan, the late king, put his brother Goujuana to death, he sent an Induua with thirty men to destroy the 
entire population of ten kraals belonging to Goujuana, which lay near the Tugala. On reaching the first kraal, the 
Induna entered with only one man, to avoid suspicion : during the evening one or two more dropped in, till all had 
arrived. lie then addressed the principal man, saying that lie had brought a message from the king, and that all must 
assemble, as it was addressed to them all: he contrived that his men should mingle with the inmates and divert their 
attention by offering them snuff. Whilst thus apparently on the most friendly terms, a signal was given, when each of 
the Induna’s party, rising, stabbed his victim with an assagai. The huts were then fired, and the women and children 
butchered without mercy. I myself passed the night on two occasions under the shelter of the remains of one of these 
very huts, which had escaped the general conflagration. One of my Kafirs told me I was reposing on the spot where 
the owner of the hut was murdered, and that his wife was run through with an assagai whilst lying on the opposite 
side near the door. It was a desolate, stormy night, but the only sound that intruded on our rest was the distant roar 
of the lion, mingled with the melancholy wail of the Indian Ocean dashing on the shore beyond. 
