A PICTURE OF THE INTERIOR OF ZULULAND.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1012, 29 November 1883, Page 4

A PICTURE OF THE INTERIOR OF ZULULAND.

[“ DATAL MERCURY.’ ]

A Kaffir storekeeper living at Kwamagwasa was interviewed during a recent visit toDurban. He stated that

a white man named Tyler came to the 3 ’ Kwimkgwgsa Mission Station, and told them Cetewayo was at Inkandhla at Usikanda’s kraal near to the bush. He was all right but for a deepish wound in the lower part of the right thigh. He had another wound on the left calf, but it was not much more than a ‘ scratch. The king had been hiding since the attack on Ulundi at Upate in

the thorn bush, near, the south side of

the White, Umvolsi. . He is not sup- ’ i Vposedi to have more' than a hundred • . men him. -On his way from Kwamagwasa our informant met near St. Andrew’s a Zulu who corroborated the statement that the king was at Inki’l!:iandhla, and also gave the same description of his wounds. This Zulu thinks

. the King wants, to get back to Cape We are informed that Umnyamana and Undabuko are both at the Black Umvolosi waiting events, and that the Abaqulusi tribe have joined them out of fear of Oham. Oham’s people, our informant states, recently ate up the cattle at two mission stations, one at the. Intabankulu and the* other a little beyond. Usibepu got angry about the stealing of the missionaries’cattle, and said, 'that he would be down on Oham if he did not leave off. He’said he was not fighting with the English, but with the black people, v thmks Usibepu has re--1 ’■‘fojfned' to his kraal. Oham’s son, Ukambi, came down as far as the Bahanango, eating up cattle all the way. Umtonga, a half-brother of Cetewayo, and son of Panda, .came down .along with Ukathbi’s intpt. Another halfbrother of Cetewaj'O, Usiwetu, was killed in tne attack. At Kwamagwasa d>bst of the Zulus have sent away their

# , Cattle and hid them in the bush, but ,1 they are getting them back now, under the impression that Cetewayo is dead, the' Christian Kaffirs did not send their cattle away, but kept them by them. Among those who died in the .fight after the attack : at Tnhtidi, was Simon, a Christian

, native, <?f Edendale, who accompanied "defewayo to the Cape as interpreter. He died ifrom some internal rupture while “i; runnkigi ; Some ofthe chiefs reported dead are alive, such as Undwande, Umkosana, Umelelise, and Usoposo. ■ "‘Umkhsana, along with Umgobozana, accompanied Cetewayo to England.” A trader writing to the Mercuty under date Lower Tugelo, A ugust 4.1 b, draws a very gloomy .picture of the state of Zilluland. He says : “ Blood acid plunder are the order of the day in the Zulu country. I left one of my waggons, in charge of my son and two * native servants. A fight took place between the King and Usibepu, in which the King got defeated. Usibepu’s men ■ -,made for my wagon and killed my two servants; one they stabbed on the top of the wagon, and the other a few yards iS ' off. '"They tried to.kill my boy also, in ! ' cj)ar|£'of the wagon, by throwing thirty 1 . or forty assegais at him, but as luck and -fortune-were in his way he got off by !• only getting his forefingers cut by warding off the assegais. They then set to to plunder, and robbed me of Laso worth of goods' and twenty head of cattle., My wagon and goods are " covered over with blood. I have over •, .blankets smeared with gore at my bOP'e-: There were three white men in / . the. fight* renegades, for plunder. My - boy saw one of them passing the wagon •■‘ in company with Usibepu. Mr Grant’s wagon also got looted of all its contents. I.cbme from NatalJ as also my servants. I have a license and bondsmen for my security, all, tjte formula belonging ’ tb a ttader' gbirig over the boundaries* All. the King’s head J men are killed, and the most of his wives are . - killed and taken prisoners. The King .... was - wounded in the thigh, and no more,was seen of him. My boy saw Dabulamanzi, possibly with his son behind him,, OP horseback, - Usibepu massed at the Madachlane close to the Umvolosi river: In the night he started his people to burn and slaughter as far as the Babanango, and then he . .turned .to the north as far as the Inta- £; bahkulu, where, I believe, he will find Undabuko, the King’s brother, with a strong force. lam told by several natives that Somkeli has attacked Usibepn’s rearguard, and had a fight, in "which, tJ?l ( bepa’s people ran away, and , r he. recaptured the cattle which were taken from the King; and the other wing of Usibepu’s people went on to plunder and burn as far as the Baba 1 -' nango/ He attacked likewise, and put (HCm to flight Fighting is not over yet in the Zulu country.”

The following curious story is told by a correspondent of the Mangiitkei -Advocate “Daring my rambles lately I picked np the following peculiar story, • illustrating the primeval innocence of . . ;Bomß people and the awkward dilemmas excessive nervousness may lead to. At a certain place in the Provincial District of Wellington an u enamored and verdant couple, wishing to become one, proceeded to the office of, the registrar to be married by him. The registrar was youthful and of ,» nerybus teraperament, and this being 1 the Jfitst occasion on, which ho had been called "upon to perform such an important ceremony, he somehow felt an unconquerable diffidenred in doing the work. ».fter entering the necessary particulars in his register book, he gave the bridegroom elect the marriage certificate, and requested the couple to go to the local minister to get married. /.The innocent doves misunder- . stood,the, registrar, and being under the ' Vdnd that they’ had been joined . . together in holy matrimony,, went peace- ‘! fully cooing to their future home in blissful anticipation of the joys of the honeymoon. Some days after it leaked out 'hit ’they -had not been married, and their horror at discovering they had been living together in the sinful state of—well, unmarriedness, was scarcely equalled by 'ha frightgf the registrar, who broke into a CoM perspiration while contemplating the result of palming oft on another his own duties and responsibilities. Of course the riiW'diMisp vtas rectified as speedily as possible by the parson performing the c reroony j but it remains'for the injured And innocent parties chiefly concerned to ‘go for' that registrar, and to'call upon bird'to f show cause ’ why he should not i: > ton neverely castigate ! for inducing ‘hem Y i to'Miihiirtff 4he position of man and wife otb without being legally entitled thereto.”

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