FOOTNOTES:
[287] Grandson of the famous Dingiswayo, initiator of the modern Zulu military system.
When questioned by Natives as to who had given him orders to start hostilities in a country belonging to the Government, Matshwili is said to have replied: "If you don't keep quiet, I'll shoot you."
[288] Two companies N.R. (F and H) escorted the guns part of the way.
[289] B.M.R. also took part in driving up the stream.
[290] The man who led Matshwili's impi when Campbell was attacked.
[291] cf. p. 346.
[292] The B.M.R. were later on sent a short way into Zululand; they rejoined the column, along with Z.M.R., at Mapumulo on the following day.
[293] General Report, September, 1906.
[294] When advised by their elders, men who had fought for Cetshwayo during the Zulu War, not to take up arms against the whites, as they would be as surely defeated as they (the elders) had been in 1879, the semi-civilized youths of 1906 shouted derisively: Sa si nqeko tina! i.e. We were not there!