[5] Bird, Annals of Natal, 194.
[6] Ibid. i. 326.
[7] Much of the earlier history of the Colony will be found in the following works: N. Isaacs, Travels and Adventures in Eastern Africa, 2 vols. London, 1836; Capt. Allen F. Gardiner, A Journey to the Zoolu Country, London, 1836; H.F. Fynn, Papers, printed in part on pp. 60-124, vol. i. Bird's Annals of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 1888.
Up to the day of his death, Fynn, the friend of Isaacs and the source from which the latter drew much of the information in the work above quoted, was the final authority on all matters appertaining to the Natives of South-East Africa. He, fortunately, left a number of valuable manuscripts. These are being prepared for the press by the author. They include a large quantity of matter connected with early Zulu history, customs and habits hitherto unpublished.
[8] Pietermaritzburg, the capital of Natal, was laid off by them.
[9] Among these were the Natal Frontier Guards, Weenen Yeomanry, Victoria Mounted Rifles, Alexandra Mounted Rifles, Natal Hussars, Royal Durban Rifles, Natal Carbineers, Natal Mounted Rifles, Border Mounted Rifles, Natal Field Artillery, Durban Light Infantry, Natal Royal Rifles, also the Natal Mounted Police and Natal Native Police. (The corps in italics have either ceased to exist or been merged in those printed in ordinary type.) The last-named corps, organized in 1848, and about 150 strong, was disbanded by the Government in 1854, without any reasons being given as to why such action had become necessary. To this day, Natives wonder what the reasons could have been. Mr. (later, Sir) Theophilus Shepstone, was its captain-in-chief.
[10] Often wrongly spelt "laagers." See Glossary.
[11] Known as Bushman's Pass.
[12] It was this officer who, on 22nd January, 1879, was Colonel in command when the Imperial and Colonial troops suffered their reverse at Isandhlwana.
[13] Consisting of one officer, one sergeant and thirty-three rank and file of the Natal Carbineers (with forty rounds of ammunition per man), and twenty-five mounted Basutos; of the latter, seventeen had various kinds of guns (with about three charges apiece); the other eight were armed only with assegais.—A Soldier's Life and Work in South Africa, edited by Lt. Col. E. Durnford, London, 1882, p. 32.