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ion dead within a decade, but considering the probable population of the area in those years, this seems grotesquely high. Nxumalo's secret mission involved a long trip into land that no Zulu had ever entered, but they were guided towa When the Matabele warriors slowly retreated, a few infuriated veterans of other battles refused to believe that this handful of trekkers had been able to stand them off. Running -at breakneck speed, this man approached knelt and delivered the message exactly as it had been stated earlier, and so did

Clean up your own islands,' he silenced the man with'the thundering response: 'Your observa- tion is irrelevant. ' He was right. Twelve thousand, five hundred highly trained and capable Zulu threw themselves over a period of two hours at a cleverly entrenched foe The Boer rulers in Pretoria begged him to join the government, but he told them, 'Riding a horse up a hill doesn't make a man sagacious.