| CHAPTER I. | |
| PAGE | |
| Early History of the Zulu Nation and of Natal | [1] |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| Native Policy in Natal—Laws, Customs, and Religion of theZulus | [21] |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| Events preliminary to Zulu War—Commencement of Hostilities | [34] |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| Lord Chelmsford's Plans—The Battle of Isandhlwana—TheHeroic Defence of Rorke's Drift—Panic in the Colony—Requestfor Reinforcements—Reply from the Queen—TheMinistry—Sir Bartle Frere—Lord Chelmsford | [50] |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| Pearson's Column—March to Ekowe—Battle of Inyezane—Ekowe—ZuluArmy—Wood's Column—Reinforcementsfrom England—The Colonists—The Navy | [71] |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| The Zlobane Mountain—Piet Uys—The Battle of Kambula—TheIntombe Disaster—Battle of Ghinghelovo—Relief of Ekowe | [91] |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| The Services of Native Contingents—Lord Chelmsford andSir H. Bulwer—Review of the Campaign—Difficultiesof Transport—Immense Delay—Burying the Dead atIsandhlwana | [112] |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| Sir Bartle Frere's Policy—Censure of the Home Government—SlowOperations—Affair of the 5th of June—ThePrince Imperial—His Arrival—Services—Character—Death—Court-Martial—FuneralRites and Embarkation of the Body of the Prince Imperial | [140] |
| CHAPTER IX. | |
| The Policy of Sir Bartle Frere—Slow Advance of theBritish Columns—Appointment and Arrival of Sir GarnetWolseley—Battle of Ulundi—Resignation and Departureof Lord Chelmsford | [170] |
| CHAPTER X. | |
| Lord Chelmsford's Policy—Promptness and Decision of SirGarnet Wolseley—The Hunt and Capture of Cetywayo—Departurefrom Natal—The Last of the Zulu Kingsa Prisoner in the Castle of Cape Town—Great Meetingwith Zulu Chiefs—Sir G. Wolseley's Speech—Settlementof the Country—End of the War | [203] |
| Appendix | [213] |
HISTORY OF THE ZULU WAR.
CHAPTER I.
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.