CETYWAYO, THE EX-KING OF ZULU.

Kumara Times, Issue 1006, 20 December 1879, Page 2

CETYWAYO, THE EX-KING OF ZULU.

tfhe Cape Town corespondent of the London Times writes on September 16 th. _ -A-t noon yesterday tile 6x-Kilig was visited by Sir Battle iVere* attended by the Hon. Mr Littleton, his private secretary ; Captain Hallam Parr, milL tary secretary j and Lieutenant Dalrymplej A.D.O. Later in the day tlid Premier, Mr Gordon Sprigg, and Mr Miller, Terasurer-General, visited the Hoyal captive’s Quarters to see if thte arrangements for his accommodation were satisfactory. During the course of the Premier’s interview Cetywayo, through Mr* Long Cast, the interpreter, talked with apparent frankness of many incidents of the war. . From the accounts his people gave him it seems they greatly exaggerated the English losses and magnified the Zulu successes in all the engagements which occurred. He acknowledged, however, he had done wrong in allowing his people to fight with us. “Chaka,” he said* “was a child of the British Government, I was also a child and subject* My father,- the Government, came to chastise me for my wrongdoing. 1

"caught the stick •with which he wished me, and broke it. 1 didwrOng liim, and am punished. I am noaonger a king; but the English, I find, are a great people ; they do not kill those who have bought with them. lam satisfied to be in their hands, 1 jhope the great Queen will pardon me, and allow me to return to toy country, and give me a place to build myself a kraal where t may live. lam sorry I ‘did not follow the advice of my father, Panda, On his death-bed : he told me to live at peace with the English and hever make War with them.” When informed it was the wish of our Government to treat him with every 'consideration ahd supply him with all necessary comforts, he expressed his thanks, and asked that some of his favorite wives, naming ten, might be with him, in addition to those already here. His mind Was anxious about them, he said, for they had nobody to look after them now, and he fell lonely Without their companionship. He further begged that his case might be put before the great Queen in aS favorable a light as possible, and asked b'ow many days it Would take to send a message and receive a reply from England. He was told two months might elapse before Her Majesty’s pleasure regarding him could be known, fie again thanked the Premier for visiting him and the interest he had shown regarding him, and said, after what he had heard, he woUld sleep happier than lie hitherto had done. Cetywayo’s personal appearance is quite unlike any of the soballed portraits Which have appeared in the picforal press. lie is an exceptionally fine specimen of the noble savage—a big, black mUn, about 50 years of age, Standing nearly six feet high, of well proportioned and fully-developed frame, With a good-natUCedj broad, open face of the prominent Zulu type. Major Poole speaks favorably of his general amiability, and says he has given little trouble, except on oiiO oh two occasions, When he showed a sulky disposition, and demanded ,t'6 have an entire ox Coasted for life dally meal. While in Simon’s Bay he was taken on board Her Majesty’s ship Boadicea, and saw the men go through their drill. He expressed Wonder hnd admiration of remarking, “ t was only horn yesterday.” Many persons have applied for leave to visit the Royal CapbiVe, but the Government wisely Consider that, as a prisoner of war, he should be spaced from intrusive curiosity, and have giVen orders that the public are not to be allowed to enter his apartments or hold conversations with him until instructions are received from Sir Garnet Wolseley or the Home authorities.

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