[Footnote 12: It was this officer who, on 22nd January, 1879, was Colonel in command when the Imperial and Colonial troops suffered their reverse at Isandhlwana.] [Footnote 13: Consisting of one officer, one sergeant and thirty-three rank and file of the Natal Carbineers (with forty rounds of ammunition per man), and twenty-five mounted Basutos; of the latter, seventeen had various kinds of guns (with about three charges apiece); the other eight were armed only with assegais.--_A Soldier's Life and Work in South Africa_, edited by Lt. Col. E. Durnford, London, 1882, p. 32.] [Footnote 14: The strength of columns at 11th January was: _European troops_--85 Staff and departments, 263 Royal Artillery (20 guns--7 and 9 pdrs., 2 rocket tubes, 8 rocket troughs), 5,128 infantry and 1,193 cavalry = 6,669 (of these, 292 were from Natal mounted volunteer corps and 80 Natal Mounted Police). _Native troops_--315 mounted, 9,035 infantry = 9,350; making a grand total, including 1,910 conductors, drivers and voorloopers, of 17,929 officers and men. After the Isandhlwana disaster, another 10,000 men from England, Ceylon and other parts were sent as reinforcements, disembarking at Natal at the beginning of April. The _losses in action were_: Killed--(Europeans) 76 Officers (including the Prince Imperial of France), 1,007 N.C.O. and men; (Natives) 604. Wounded--(Europeans) 37 Officers, 206 N.C.O. and men; (Natives) 57. The returns are incomplete as regards Native casualties. Between 11th January and 15th October, 1879, 17 Officers and 330 men died of diseases consequent on the operations. The total cost of the war was £5,230,323.--_Narrative of the Field Operations connected with the Zulu War of 1879._ War Office publication. London, 1881. A Natal official return (1880) shows that, in addition to a reserve of 360 Europeans and 2,500 Natives, the Natal forces called out were: Natal Mounted Police, 130; Volunteers, 582; Levy leaders, etc., 86; Natives, 20,037. Total, 20,835.] [Footnote 15: Dinuzulu's mother, a daughter of a commoner, Msweli, was a concubine and never became Cetshwayo's chief wife. There was a posthumous son by the chief wife, called Manzolwandhle, now a Chief in Nqutu district, Zululand, who would, under ordinary circumstances, have succeeded his father, but, with the country in an unsettled condition at the ex-King's death, it was decided that Dinuzulu, because the only son then living, should be recognized as head of the Zulu House.] [Footnote 16: The Imperial Government did not at any time recognize Dinuzulu as a king.] [Footnote 17: The name means "_water of the ocean_," in memory of the voyage that was made by his father to England.] [Footnote 18: Where Mkuze River passes through the Ubombo Range.] [Footnote 19: No. 37, 1897 (Natal).] II. SYSTEM OF NATIVE ADMINISTRATION IN NATAL.