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in the 'seventies, or froreat Shepstone, ues Osborn, Fynney, Clarke and others, every

one of theone down"

Perhaps it may be as well that this is so, at any rate in the case of

one who desires to write of the Zulus as a reigning nation, which now

they have ceased to be, and to try to show them as they were, in all

their superstitious randeur

Yet then they had virtues as well as vices To serve their Country in

ar; such was their primitive ideal If

they were fierce they were loyal, and feared neither wounds nor doom; if

they listened to the dark redes of the witch-doctor, the trumpet-call

of duty sounded still louder in their ears; if, chanting their terrible

"Ingoly, at

least they were not ar Froreat issues of life or death arity are

far re to the safe and crowded haunts of

civilised es, where, at any rate of

old, they ht in vain