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Captain Barton's Volunteer Horse and Colonel Weatherley's troop suffered most heavily, losing no less than 86 men and 12 officers. Among these were Colonel Weatherley himself, Captain Hamilton of the Connaught Rangers, and Captains Campbell and Burton of the Coldstream Guards. The rest of the force succeeded in getting away, and, hotly pursued, fell back upon the camp at Kambula.
Of the persons directly or indirectly concerned in this rascally plot, the unfortunate Colonel Weatherly subsequently apologised to Sir T. Shepstone for his share in the agitation, and shortly afterwards died fighting bravely on Kambula. Captain Gunn of Gunn and Mrs.
Just after I had passed the main gateway of the great town, where, his office done, Kambula saluted and left me, I saw two white men engaged in earnest conversation beneath one of the milk trees which, as I think I have already mentioned, grow, or grew, there. They were Henri Marais and his nephew.
I am bound to say that during the four or five days that it took us to reach Dingaan's kraal they behaved very well to us. With Kambula and his officers, all of them good fellows in their way, I had many conversations, and from them learned much as to the state and customs of the Zulus.
Thereon, led by Marais, the three Boer men came towards us doubtfully, their guns in their hands. "Be careful what you are doing," I called to them. "These are envoys," and they hung back a little while Marais went on with his haranguing. The Zulus looked at them and at me, then Kambula said: "Are you leading us into a trap, Son of George?"
Then the captain Kambula called my servant apart and talked with him for a long while. When the interview was finished he advanced to me and said: "Now I have heard all about you. I have heard that although young you are very clever, so clever that you do not sleep, but watch by night as well as by day.
Owen or any of his people. I believe, however, that they reached Durban safely and sailed away in a ship called the Comet. In a little while we came to the two milk trees by the main gate of the kraal, where much of our saddlery still lay scattered about, though the guns had gone. Here Kambula asked me if I could recognise my own saddle.
On we went over the rolling plain, and as we travelled I told him my story, briefly enough, for my mind was too torn with fears to allow me to talk much. He, too, told me more of his escape and adventures. Now I understood what was that news which had so excited Kambula and his soldiers.
"No, Inkoos," he answered; "they are of the Children of George, as you are, and therefore the king has spared them, although he is going to send them out of the country." This was good news, so far as it went, and I asked again if Thomas Halstead had also been spared, since he, too, was an Englishman. "No," said Kambula.
Then Kambula said: "So be it. We have heard that the people of George are now ruled by a woman, and as you, Macumazahn, are one of that people, doubtless it is the same among your party."
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