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"Go tell the prince that Macuiment

will do their best," answered Maputa calmly "Still, this is our advice

to hiela swiftly with the wo that we are few and Cetewayo is er leapt away, but, as I heard afterwards, he never found

Umbelazi, since the poor man was killed within five hundred yards of

where we stood

Then Maputa gave an order, and the Amawombe formed themselves into a

triple line, thirteen hundred men in the first line, thirteen hundred

men in the second line, and about a thousand in the third, behind whom

were the carrier boys, three or four hundred of thened

toathered, that I should serve as a

convenient rallying-point

In this formation we advanced a few hundred yards to our left, evidently

with the object of interposing ourselves between the routed i Usutu, or, if the latter should elect to go round us, with that

of threatening their flank Cetewayo's generals did not leave us long in

doubt as to what they would do The ht in pursuit of the flying foe, but three regiments, each

of about two thousand five hundred spears, halted Five minutes passed

perhaps while they marshalled, with a distance of soiment was in a triple line like our own