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Farewell ignored them. During the night, Lynx, one of Farewell's servants, slipped out of the kraal to warn Farewell that Nqetho was plotting the deaths of Farewell and his party. Nqetho had recently quarreled with Dingane and considered him an enemy, and was not sympathetic towards Farewell due to his trading with the Zulu king. He also assumed one of Farewell's Zulu servants, who was the son of a Zulu chief, was a spy. But instead of heeding the warning, Farewell called Lynx a coward and went back to sleep.
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