A week or two ago (sayß the World) a young gentleman whose friends lire near Cuiselhurst arrired from the Cape. It was intimated to tbe Empress that if she cared to see him he would wait upon «her. She was delighted, and listened i •with rapt attention to all he had to tell. When lie described the assegai used by ail the Kaffir and Zulu tribes she expressed a wish to see one. They were in the hall, and forthwith produced. The j Empress all but fainted at the sight of them, and then burst into a flood of tears. "Do not think me weak," she said; " but until I saw these weapons I never j realised the danger my son rau." At that very morneot he had been killed by j assegai wounds sesratcen in number. ] " I'll take the shine out of you," as the eclipse mid to the moon, I
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3347, 13 September 1879, Page 3
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152Untitled Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3347, 13 September 1879, Page 3
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