[85] Apparently by Sir T. Shepstone’s orders, as the following phrase appears in one of the Boer protests against arbitration, April 25th, 1873: “The majority of the people have, by order of your Excellency, trekked into laager on December 14th last, and after having remained in laager for nearly five months, _we are to go and live on our farms again_.” [86] The married women work in the mealie-gardens, etc., and the _little_ girls carry the babies; but the marriageable young women seem to have an interval of happy freedom from all labour and care. [87] This was comprehensible during the attempt, which proved so signal a failure, on the part of Sir T. Shepstone, to impose a _marriage tax_ upon the natives. The tax was so extremely unpopular that it was thought advisable to relinquish it, and to make the desired increase in the revenue of the colony by doubling the hut-tax. [88] Sir T. Shepstone, when he says (1137, p. 18) “Natal gives up the _cattle_ of Zulu refugees.... The refugees themselves are not given up,” plainly includes women amongst the cattle or “property” of the Zulus. [89] And later, Nov. 18, 1878 (2222, p. 173), he says: “I do not hold the King responsible for the commission of the act, because there is nothing to show that it had his previous concurrence or even cognizance. But he becomes responsible for the act after its commission, and for such reparation as we may consider is due for it.” [90] Since rifled by our troops, and the bones of the old king brought over to England. [91] No “demand” was made until it appeared in Sir B. Frere’s ultimatum. [92] On perusing the above italicised words, one learns for the first time that the ultimatum, which Sir Bartle Frere sent to the Zulu king a few months later, was actually sent for the express purpose of putting “an end to pacific relations with our neighbours.” This is hardly the light in which the British public has been taught to look upon the matter. [93] Mr. H. Shepstone (Secretary for Native Affairs in the Transvaal) acknowledges that this fine was paid (2222, p. 99). [94] Manyonyoba owed allegiance to Cetshwayo (as did Umbilini). He lived north of the Pongolo, in a part of the country over which Sir Bartle Frere and Sir Henry Bulwer altogether deny Cetshwayo’s supremacy, and was claimed as a subject of the Transvaal Government. [95] Sir H. Bulwer says “they have suspected, quite wrongly, that we had some design against them in making it” (the new road to the drift). It is to be questioned how far their suspicion was a wrongful one, seeing that it was understood from the first that the drift was intended especially for military purposes, and was undoubtedly inspected by Mr. Smith for the same. [96] Quotations from Mr. Deighton’s report to Mr. Wheelwright. [97] Words applied to him by Mr. Brownlee, late Secretary for Native Affairs of the Cape Government. [98] Author’s italics.