Here I will stop the tale to say that this prophecy of Sihamba's cametrue, as did all the prophecies of that strange woman, who, with othergifts, without doubt had that of foresight. A few years later, whenPanda was king, and their wars with us Boers were ended, the Zulus, whonever forgot a quarrel, swooped down upon the Umpondwana unawares, andstorming the mountain by night, put all the men on it to the spear, andcarried away the women and children to Zululand, so that of this tribethere remains nothing but some crumbling walls and a name of shame.