HORRIBLE ATROCITIES BY THE ZULU KING.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 119, 20 May 1879, Page 4

HORRIBLE ATROCITIES BY THE ZULU KING.

A THOUSAND YOUNG GIRLS STRANGLED. ["Capo Town Corr. N. H. Herald."] Some years ago Cetewayo insulted the English missionaries. Their converts were driven away and some of them killed, and the missionaries were ordered oat of his country. Tbey left in great haste, thinking and feeling their Uvea were in danger. I dare not relate come of the well-known cruelties practiced hy Cetewayo. Tbey are too vile for pen and paper. Not long ago he sent oat for all the men to rebuild hia military kraals. It was a great work, antl the' progress wbb slow. Ha

sentjjio |to inquire tbe reason. They replied that some of tbe men were ill. Ha was enraged, and ordered bis soldiers to march throughout the land and kill all who were eick, and many were killed. The natives who bave lately fled into Nptal, report that be had 1000 young girls strangled \o death last year because they objected to marry old men he had chosen for them. He wi'l not allow young men to marry, for he must have them for soldiers In his military kraals, ready at a moment's notice to do bis bidding. When they are between thirty end forty, and have been good and brave soldiers, he will give them wives. Every year he takes first pick of all the prettieet girls. The breaking of the seventh and eighth commandments are always punished with death. No Sockß are needed in Zululam 1 .