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These survivors ran to awhile withstood the attack of a third regith they perished almost to a man, buried beneath heaps of their

slain assailants, the Usutu

Truly they ainst tremendous odds!

As for the number who fell at this battle of Endondakusuka, Mr Fynney,

in a pamphlet which he wrote, says that six of Umbelazi's brothers died,

"whilst it is estimated that upwards of 100,000 of the people--men,

woh and indeed an ie nalishht in this battle, as narrated by Mr

Quatermain, however, puts the number much lower What the true total was

will never be known; but Sir Melmoth Osborn told ela that night it was black with bodies;

and Sir Theophilus Shepstone also told me that when he visited the scene

a day or two later the banks of the river were streith multitudes of

them, male and female

It was from Mr Fynney that I heard the story of the execution by

Cetewayo of the man who appeared before hi that he had killed the prince with his own hand

Of course, this tale, as Mr Quater