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"Not much; we know that it was overrun by the Zoolus, the tribe of which Chaka was the chief and last year our troops went to the assistance of the Caffres, who were attacked by another tribe from the northward, called the Mantatees. These were dispersed by our troops with immense slaughter.
"I wonder they never thought of going back and recovering their own country. They would have been a match for the Zoolus. Is that the end of their history, Swinton?" "No, not quite. But perhaps you are tired?" "Oh, no. Pray go on."
"Do you know any thing of this person, Swinton?" "Yes, I have heard of him, but I did not know that he had extended his conquests so low down as to the Val River." "Who is he?" "You have heard of Chaka, the king of the Zoolus, who conquered the whole country, as far as Port Natal to the eastward?" "Yes," replied Alexander; "we have heard of him."
"Not much; we know that it was overrun by the Zoolus, the tribe of which Chaka was the chief; and last year our troops went to the assistance of the Caffres, who were attacked by another tribe from the northward, called the Mantatees. These were dispersed by our troops with immense slaughter.
This was very flattering, and accounted for the great concourse of visitors which I had at first imagined was accidental. A few years before I had been one of the gazers at the Zoolus, and the Aztecs in London. Now the tables were turned upon me, for I was to these people a new and strange variety of man, and had the honour of affording to them, in my own person, an attractive exhibition, gratis.
One portion of them went eastward, toward the country from which they had been driven by the Zoolus, and another, it appears, took possession of the country near the sources of the Orange River, where for many years they carried on a predatory warfare with the tribes in that district.
Struggling with death, the men would rally, raise themselves from the ground, discharge their weapons, and fall dead, their revengeful and hostile spirit only ceasing when life was extinct." "And yet these same people permitted their own country to be taken from them by the Zoolus." "Yes, it was so; but want and necessity had turned them into desperate warriors."
"Such was the origin of the Mantatees, who, although they had not courage to withstand the attacks of the Zoolus, were stimulated by desperation and famine to a most extraordinary courage in the attacks which they made upon others.
"Do you know anything of this person, Swinton?" "Yes, I have heard of him, but I did not know that he had extended his conquests so low down as to the Vaal River." "Who is he?" "You have heard of Chaka, the king of the Zoolus, who conquered the whole country, as far as Port Natal to the eastward?" "Yes," replied Alexander; "we have heard of him."
"Such was the origin of the Mantatees, who, although they had not courage to withstand the attacks of the Zoolus, were stimulated by desperation and famine to a most extraordinary courage in the attacks which they made upon others.
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