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that awful day

Early in the et which, he

swaela and hid with it in a bush-clad kopje,

blindfolding the animal with his coat lest it should betray hiht of the day, that of the regiment of veterans,

which Sir Melmoth informed me Panda had sent down at the last moment to

the assistance of Umbelazi, his favourite son, took place almost at

the foot of this kopje Mr Quateriment the Amawombe, but ave thea"

Whatever their exact title reat

stand At least, he told ive before the Usutu onslaught, these "Greys" , drawn up in a triple line, and were charged by one of Cetewayo's

regi forcesshields, said

Sir Melmoth, was like the roll of heavy thunder Then, while he watched,

the veteran "Greys" passed over the opposing regiment "as a wave passes

over a rock"--these were his exact words--and, leaving about a third of

their nu the bodies of the annihilated foe,

charged on to ainst theain the "Greys" conquered Only

now there were not more than five or six hundred of them left upon their

feet