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Updated: May 9, 2025
To understand the position of Cetywayo both with reference to his subjects and the English Government, it will be necessary to touch, though briefly, on the history of Zululand since it became a nation, and also on the principal events of the ex-king's reign.
He is by no means anxious to give up the 15,000 pounds a year his hut-tax brings in, and all the contingent profits and advantages of his chieftainship. If we wish to restore Cetywayo we must first depose Dunn; in fact, we must be ready to support his restoration by force of arms. As regards Cetywayo himself, I cannot share the opinion of those who think that he would be personally dangerous.
Hand in hand the missionary and the trader have penetrated the locations. The efforts of the teacher have met with but a partial success. "A Christian may be a good man in his way, but he is a Zulu spoiled," said Cetywayo, King of the Zulus, when arguing the question of Christianity with the Secretary for Native Affairs; and such is, not altogether wrongly, the general feeling of the natives.
I have eaten the corn of my time, till only the cob is left for me to suck, and, ow, it is bitter. Ow, I am glad." Chaka, or T'chaka, was the founder of the Zulu power. Imposing as was this old-time war-dance, it is not difficult to imagine the heights to which its savage grandeur must have swelled when it was held as was the custom at each new year at the kraal of Cetywayo, King of the Zulus.
The king himself, Cetywayo, was hunted down, captured, and sent into captivity. Afterwards, there was what is called a 'popular movement' on his behalf in England, and he was sent back to Zululand, with permission to rule half the country.
"He has travelled the king's bridge," they answered grimly; "he died singing a song of praise of the king." "Good," said Cetywayo, "that stone shall hurt my feet no more. Go, tell the tale of its casting away to Sompseu and to the Queen's Induna in Natal," he added with bitter emphasis. "Baba! Hear our Father speak.
I am glad that he has sent it, because the Dutch have tired me out, and I intended to fight them once and once only, and to drive them over the Vaal. Kabana, you see my impis are gathered. It was to fight the Dutch I called them together; now I send them back to their homes." Message from Cetywayo to Sir. T. Shepstone, April, 1877. Bayete, Father, Chief of Chiefs! Lion!
The yellow-domed huts lay six or seven deep between their dark, ringed fences, the great circular space in the middle the isigodhlo, or inclosure of royal dwellings partitioned off at the upper end why, the place might have been the chief kraal of Cetywayo or Dingane miraculously transferred to this remote and unexplored region. "Lo! Imvungayo.
But though some such disaster was daily expected by a few, the majority of both soldiers and civilians never dreamed of anything of the sort, the general idea being that the conquest of Cetywayo was a very easy undertaking: and the shock produced by the news of Isandhlwana was proportionally great, especially as it reached Pretoria in a much exaggerated form.
I reproached Cetywayo for his cruelty, and declared I would leave Zululand without trading there, and without making him the present he expected. Cetywayo was then on friendly terms with the English, and being impressed by my threats, he reconsidered his orders, and spared the lives of the women."
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