"...Our party were received by King Shaka in a friendly manner, but with that air of haughty indifference which might be expected from the Napoleon of Eastern Africa, before whom everyone was prostrated.

A hundred thousand warriors, whose victories had annihilated nations, who had fought in fields saturated with the blood of their slain comrades, knelt at his feet, and to them his words were as the mandate of their deity.

Our present excited neither pleasure nor curiosity. He received it with listless indifference, causing it to be thrown aside, and commenced a desultory conversation, asking questions of King George's dominions, if he had as many cattle and as many warriors as he had, expressing his wish to be on friendly terms with King George, and would give his white people every attention, repeating that if any of them gave them any offence or insult, he would kill them all, men women and child..."

(The Natal Papers of 'John Ross' von Charles R. MacLean)