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The Ingo down to battleto

hear--EDITOR] The spirit of this fierce Ingoesture and

inflection of voice, not the exact words, re ination, may perhaps be rendered

solish verse is almost

i,

Rebels their King defying

There shall be dead and dying, Red are their eyes with hate;

Lo! where our ieance insatiate!"

It was early on thethat ca mist, that I found myself with

the Amawombe at the place known as Endondakusuka, a plain with some

kopjes in it that lies within six miles of the Natal border, froela river

As the orders of the Amawombe were to keep out of the fray if that were

possible, we had taken up a position about a ht of what

proved to be the actual battlefield, choosing as our cae tumulus, and was fronted at a

distance of about five hundred yards by another smaller knoll Behind us

stretched bushland, or rather broken land, wheredown to the banks of the Tugela about four