As regards the Zulu loss, Lord Chelmsford says: “It is impossible to estimate with any correctness the loss of the enemy, owing to the extent of country over which they attacked and retreated; but it could not have been less, I consider, than 1000 killed.”—(Despatch, 4th July). Using the same reasoning on the 6th, Lord Chelmsford says: “But judging by the reports of those engaged, it cannot be placed at a less number than 1500 killed.” From the statements of prisoners it would seem that the attacking force was about 15,000 strong, 5000 being in reserve. At a meeting of the Zulu Council on the 2nd July, it appears that it was resolved by the King to send in the royal coronation white cattle as a peace-offering; but as they were being driven towards the English camp on the 2nd, they were turned back at Nodwengo by the Umcityu Regiment, who refused to let them pass, saying, as they could not fulfil all the demands, it was useless to give up the cattle, and therefore they would fight. The king was then at Ulundi; he said that “as the Inkandampemvu (Umcityu) Regiment would not let the cattle go in as a peace-offering, and as we wished to fight, the white army being now at his home, we could fight, but we were to fight the white men in the open, and attack before the Nodwengo and Ulundi kraals, where we were on the day of the fight.... The army is now thoroughly beaten, and as it was beaten in the open, it will not reassemble and fight again. No force is watching the lower column, and none has been sent there. How could there be, when all were ordered to be here to-day? We mustered here by the king’s orders at the beginning of this moon, about ten days ago. We have not been called out before.” The natives belonging to the British force were exceedingly struck at the idea of their being brought into the square, whilst the soldiers formed “a laager” of their bodies round them. The special correspondent of _The Daily News_, Mr. Archibald Forbes, performed a very gallant act after the battle of Ulundi. Finding that no despatch was being sent off by the General to announce the victory, he determined to take the news himself, and, “taking his life in his hand,” set out alone to ride right through the Zulu country. This he did, riding the whole night, having frequently to dismount and actually _feel_ his way—the tracks of the waggons on the upward route. Next day, after a ride of nearly a hundred miles, he reached Landtmann’s Drift (in fifteen hours), and was enabled to telegraph to Sir Garnet Wolseley the news of the victory of the 4th. A few brief remarks on the return march are all that are necessary. The day after the battle of Ulundi (5th July) the whole force retired to Entonjaneni, and remained there till the 9th, when the Flying Column moved on the road towards the coast to Kwamagwasa, _en route_ to meet Sir Garnet Wolseley. On the 10th the 2nd Division marched from Entonjaneni, and arrived at the Upoko River on the 15th.