THE DEATH OF THE PRINCE IMPERIAL.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2036, 2 September 1880, Page 3

THE DEATH OF THE PRINCE IMPERIAL.

Colonel Evelyn Wood,- who accompanied the Empress Eugenie to Zululand, has sent home papers descriptive of _ the death of the Prince Imcollected from the independent narratives of eighteen Zulus who participated in the attack, on the Prince's party. These papers show that the attacking party numbered fifty, twelve of whom followed the Prince, and eight being immediately concerned in his death. The Zulus, having nearly surrounded the Prince's party, fired and rushed on them as they were mounting. Tho Prince, not having succeeded in mounting, ran alongside his horse until it broke away. The Prince then followed his horse, until being cloßely pressed by the pursuers he turned upon them, in tho words of tho Zulus, "like a lion at bay." Being struck by an assegai in the side, he rushed at his nearest opponent, who fled. Another Zulu then flred at the Prince when only ton yards from him. The Prince fired off his pistols, and faced his rapidly increasing foes until—menaced from right and rear, and struck by another assegai —he regained the level on which he first stood in the donga, where he was speedily surrounded ; he seized the assegai which had boen thrown at him. In struggling with tho terrified horse, his sword had fallen from the scabbard, and he thus defended himself against seven or eight Zulus, who state that they did not dare to close in on him until he sank exhausted on his hips. The above facts were elicited from the Zulus who were examined separately on the scene of the attack.