chief, Sekonyela, who lived back across the mountains on the plateau.
Retief complied. He tricked Sekonyela into giving up the cattle, and in
February 1838 he returned to Dingane's headquarters with a cavalcade of
seventy emigrants and thirty Coloured servants.
By that time, most of the emigrants were already trekking across the
mountains with their wagons and their livestock and settling on the fringe
of Zulu territory. Moreover, Retief had sent Dingane a message boasting of
90