NATIVE POLICY IN NATAL--LAWS, CUSTOMS, AND RELIGION OF THE ZULUS 21
EVENTS PRELIMINARY TO ZULU WAR--COMMENCEMENT OF HOSTILITIES 34
LORD CHELMSFORD'S PLANS--THE BATTLE OF ISANDHLWANA--THE HEROIC DEFENCE OF RORKE'S DRIFT--PANIC IN THE COLONY--REQUEST FOR REINFORCEMENTS--REPLY FROM THE QUEEN--THE MINISTRY--SIR BARTLE FRERE--LORD CHELMSFORD 50
PEARSON'S COLUMN--MARCH TO EKOWE--BATTLE OF INYEZANE--EKOWE--ZULU ARMY--WOOD'S COLUMN--REINFORCEMENTS FROM ENGLAND--THE COLONISTS--THE NAVY 71
THE ZLOBANE MOUNTAIN--PIET UYS--THE BATTLE OF KAMBULA--THE INTOMBE DISASTER--BATTLE OF GHINGHELOVO--RELIEF OF EKOWE 91
THE SERVICES OF NATIVE CONTINGENTS--LORD CHELMSFORD AND SIR H. BULWER--REVIEW OF THE CAMPAIGN--DIFFICULTIES OF TRANSPORT--IMMENSE DELAY--BURYING THE DEAD AT ISANDHLWANA 112
SIR BARTLE FRERE'S POLICY--CENSURE OF THE HOME GOVERNMENT--SLOW OPERATIONS--AFFAIR OF THE 5TH OF JUNE--THE PRINCE IMPERIAL--HIS ARRIVAL--SERVICES--CHARACTER--DEATH--COURT- MARTIAL--FUNERAL RITES AND EMBARKATION OF THE BODY OF THE PRINCE IMPERIAL 140
THE POLICY OF SIR BARTLE FRERE--SLOW ADVANCE OF THE BRITISH COLUMNS--APPOINTMENT AND ARRIVAL OF SIR GARNET WOLSELEY--BATTLE OF ULUNDI--RESIGNATION AND DEPARTURE OF LORD CHELMSFORD 170
LORD CHELMSFORD'S POLICY--PROMPTNESS AND DECISION OF SIR GARNET WOLSELEY--THE HUNT AND CAPTURE OF CETYWAYO--DEPARTURE FROM NATAL--THE LAST OF THE ZULU KINGS A PRISONER IN THE CASTLE OF CAPE TOWN--GREAT MEETING WITH ZULU CHIEFS--SIR G. WOLSELEY'S SPEECH--SETTLEMENT OF THE COUNTRY--END OF THE WAR 203
[Illustration: MAP OF ZULU LAND AND PART OF NATAL _Stanford's Geog^l Estab^t_]
EARLY HISTORY OF THE ZULU NATION AND OF NATAL.
Two different races met in Southern Africa about the middle of the seventeenth century. One had migrated from the centre of the continent; the other sent out settlers from one of the most civilized and prosperous countries of Europe. These races were the Kafirs and the Dutch. The former arrived at the banks of the Great Fish River about the same time that Surgeon Van Riebeek landed on the shores of Table Bay for the purpose of establishing "a place of refreshment for the outward and homeward bound fleets of the chartered Dutch East India Company." The progress of the new colony was so gradual and slow that it was not until the nineteenth century that Kafir irruptions were effectually checked, and then the British Government had assumed sovereignty over the Cape of Good Hope. Different causes, to which it is not necessary to refer, made the descendants of the Dutch settlers so dissatisfied with our rule that a portion of them, in the year 1837, passed into that easterly portion of Southern Africa styled Natal. There they came in contact with the bravest and best-organized portion of the great Kafir race. The Ama-Zulus were originally a small and despised tribe. They were "tobacco sellers," or pedlars, and carried on this occupation at the beginning of the present century in the country between the Black and White Umvolosi rivers. In contradistinction to the nature of their employment, and as an emblem of the ambition of the people, the name they gave themselves was one of the proudest they could have chosen, as "the Zulus" in the Kafir tongue signifies "the Celestials." At an early period in this century a great leader arose among them, who became the Genghis Khan of Southern Africa. This chief was fitly named "Utskaka"--"Chaka," or "Break of Day;" and it was in consequence of his efforts and of his success that a new era commenced for his countrymen.