[119] These words deserve special remark.
[120] After-events proved the fallacy of these “reports.” Even when the Zulus could have swept Natal with fatal effect, they refrained.
[121] Lord Chelmsford, January 16th, 1879. (P. P. [C. 2252] p. 63.)
[122] Captain N. Newman.
[123] Some Zulus (a chief named Gandama, and others) came into the camp on the 21st, saw the General, and were allowed to depart.—(P. P. [C. 2454] p. 182).
[124] P. P. (C. 2260) p. 81.
[125] Major Clery.
[126] “There were no high words,” Lieutenant Cochrane says, of any kind between the colonels, as some would lead the public to suppose. The above remarks are taken from Lieutenant Cochrane’s account of what passed; and he says: “I think no one lives who was present during the conversation but myself; so that anything said contradictory to my statement is invented.”
[127] Captain Essex, 75th Regiment.
[128] Lieutenant Raw, Natal Native Horse.