History of the Zulu war and its originColenso, Frances E. (Frances Ellen)
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History of the Zulu war and its origin
Colenso, Frances E. (Frances Ellen)
Zulu War, 1879
The “engagements” into which the Zulu chiefs entered are:
“1. I will observe and respect whatever boundaries shall be assigned
to my territory by the British Government through the Resident of the
division in which my territory is situated.
“2. I will not permit the existence of the Zulu military system, or
the existence of any military system of organisation whatever, in my
territory, and I will proclaim and make it a rule that all men shall
be allowed to marry when they choose and as they choose, according
to the good ancient customs of my people, known and followed in the
days preceding the establishment by Chaka of the system known as the
military system; and I will allow and encourage all men living within
my territory to go and come freely for peaceful purposes, and to work
in Natal and the Transvaal and elsewhere for themselves or for hire.
“3. I will not import or allow to be imported into my territory by
any person, upon any pretext or for any object whatever, any arms
or ammunition from any part whatsoever, or any goods or merchandise
by the sea-coast of Zululand, without the express sanction of the
Resident of the division in which my territory is situated; and I
will not encourage or promote, or take part in, or countenance in any
way whatever, the importation in any other part of Zululand of arms
or ammunition from any part whatever, or goods or merchandise by the
sea-coast of Zululand, without such sanction, and I will confiscate
and hand over to the Natal Government all arms and ammunition, and
goods and merchandise, so imported into my territory, and I will
punish by fine or by other sufficient punishment any person guilty
of or concerned in any such unsanctioned importation, and any person
found possessing arms or ammunition, or goods or merchandise,
knowingly obtained thereby.
“4. I will not allow the life of any of my people to be taken for
any cause, except after sentence passed in a council of the chief men
of my territory, and after fair and impartial trial in my presence
and after the hearing of witnesses; and I will not tolerate the
employment of witch-doctors, or the practice known as smelling-out,
or any practices of witchcraft.
“5. The surrender of persons fugitive in my territory from justice,
when demanded by the government of any British colony, territory, or
province, in the interests of justice, shall be readily and promptly
made to such government; and the escape into my territory of persons
accused or convicted of offences against British laws shall be
prevented by all possible means, and every exertion shall be made to
seize and deliver up such persons to British authority.
“6. I will not make war upon any chief or chiefs, or people, without
the sanction of the British Government, through the Resident of the
division in which my territory is situated.
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