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Of those Government men there may have been thirty or forty, and of the

"kraal Kafirs" anything between two and three hundred

I shook Uood-day

"That is an ill day upon which no sun shines, O Macumazana," he

answered--words that struck me as olad towhat

to say, I asked the exact object of their visit, whereon Dunn began to

talk He said that he had been sent over on the previous afternoon by

Captain Walmsley, as an officer of the Natal Government stationed

across the border, to try to make peace between the Zulu factions, but

that when he spoke of peace one of Umbelazi's brothers--I think it was

Mantantashiya--had h to cope with the Usutu--that was Cetewayo's party Also, he

added, that when he suggested that the thousands of woela drift during the previous

night into safety in Natal, Mantantashiya would not listen, and U the aid of the Natal Govern

"Quem Deus vult perdere prius dementat" [whom God wishes to destroy, He

first makes mad], quoted I to s that ht me,