[FOOTNOTES:]
[1] Cape Colonists versus Natives; also despatch of Sir Bartle Frere, dated 12th February, 1879.
[2] Strange to say, this Captain Allen Gardiner met the same cruel death some years afterwards, in South America.
[3] The names of the principal Englishmen killed are—R. Biggar, Cane, Stubbs, Richard Wood, William Wood, Henry Batt, John Campbell, Thomas Campbell, and Thomas Carden.
[4] The Dutch say 3000 Zulus were killed; but this is probably a great exaggeration.
[5] Proclamation in the Government Gazette.
[6] Called after a Dutchman named Pieter Maritz.
[7] A little vessel, the Mazeppa, Captain Cato, escaped from the inner harbour, although fired upon by the Boers, and proceeded to Delagoa Bay in order to obtain assistance. She found no British man-of-war there, and on her return to Natal H.M.S. Southampton had arrived.
[8] The writer has been assured of this by old inhabitants, who spoke the Zulu tongue like natives, and had been brought up with Zulu refugees. There is no doubt whatever that if Cetywayo had entered Natal with a large victorious army, one of the most awful massacres on record would have been the result.