HOW THE LAST MAN DIED AT ISANDULA.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue 74, 17 May 1881, Page 4

HOW THE LAST MAN DIED AT ISANDULA.

The Times of Natal contains a touching account obtaiued from native sources by Air Osborn, the British Resident in Zululand, of the memorable disaster at Isauduhi. Several new fao s of great interest are mentioned, notably the discovery on the battle field of Lord Chelmsford's written orders to Uolonel Pulleine. T lie description of 'he stand made by "the last man," is full of pathos. "Be struggled on and on. retreating higher and higher up the hill till he reached a simll cave or recess in the rocks, into which he crept, and with his gun kept of the enemy. The ground in fiont of the little cave (which was pointed out to me) falls steeply, down, find the Zulus, taking advantage of the rocks and stones scattered about endeavoured, two or three at a time, to approach and shoot him* The* soldier, however, shot 'every Zulu ns lie nppeared; he did not blaze away hnrridly, but loaded quietly, took deliberate aim, and killed* a man with every shot, till at last the Zulus, being now very tired, a number of men, good shots, were brought up with guns, who fired simultaneously at the unfortunate man and so killed him. This lasted far into the afternoon, ' and the shadows * were long on the hills' (probably about five p.m.) before the man, who my informant said, was the last to die. met his fa*e "