"The morning following that on which Vijn had been despatched on his
second embassy the king moved on to the river Mona, and slept that night
in a kraal upon its bank. On the next morning, having crossed the
stream, he was ascending the hill that rose on the other side when a
messenger from his brother Uziwetu came to tell him that soldiers on
horseback had just visited Zonymana's kraal. He therefore concealed
himself in the bush, and in no long time beheld the white men's scouts
on the opposite hill; thereupon he descended the ravine into the Mona
bush. The same evening he travelled as far as the Black Umvolosi, and
slept there. On the following day they had scarcely finished killing
and skinning a couple of oxen when scouts came in to say the white
horsemen were coming through the bush. The king then bade all the women
to escape as best they could, whilst he, going out of the bush,
concealed himself in the long grass on the top of a mound just above the
drift, whence he could clearly watch the patrol as they passed, and,
indeed, could hear them speak and laugh. As soon as they had passed, he
and the five or six followers, who were now all the retainers that
remained with him, journeyed further up the Black Umvolosi, and lived
for some days in various kraals. Remaining for three days in the same
kraal, he was joined by one of his wives. Finding the troops still on
the trail, he now struck off across country into the Ingome forest,
where news reached him that Umnyama had, instead of making terms for
him, promised Sir Garnet Wolseley to use his best endeavours to capture
the king and to deliver him up should he be found in any of the kraals
of his (Umnyama's) district. Cetywayo was much grieved at this, and
exclaimed, 'Why does Umnyama do this? Why does he act treacherously
towards me? Why does he not send a message to tell me to deliver myself
up?' He then moved on to the kraal of the Ingome, where four more women
rejoined him. Here he was taken by Lord Gifford and Major Marter, and
conducted by them back to Ulundi. On the way one of the women escaped
into the bush."
NOTE II.
FATE OF CETYWAYO AND FINAL SETTLEMENT OF ZULULAND.
Cetywayo was first taken to Sir Garnet Wolseley at Ulundi, and thence by
that General's orders was conveyed, under an escort commanded by Captain
Poole, R.A., to Capetown, where he still remains in an honourable
captivity, treated with all the respect and indulgence due to his
position.
After Cetywayo's capture no further opposition of any sort was
encountered in Zululand, but the chiefs and people immediately assented
to the terms of peace proposed by Sir Garnet, by which the country was
split up into thirteen districts, each subject to its own chief, while
supreme over all these was placed a British resident. Native laws and
customs were to be respected, and European immigration was forbidden.
Mr. Wheelwright, for some considerable time a magistrate of Natal, was
appointed the first resident.
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