Advance of 1st column--Description of route--Forts Crealock and Chelmsford--Causes of delay--Sickness of troops and its origin--Capture of cattle--Proposals for peace by Umsintwanga--His interview with Crealock--Surrender of Umguelumgwizi--Advance of 2nd division--Details of troops composing it--A fortified kraal--Fort built by Wood on the Umlatoosi--Patrol by Buller--Burning of five kraals in the Usipexi district--Amhlabatini--Depôt there described--Envoys from Cetywayo--Advance to White Umvolosi--Wood's camp--Lord Chelmsford's ultimatum to Cetywayo. 311 CHAPTER XII. Raid across the Umvolosi by Buller--Gallant rescue of a sergeant by Lord William Beresford--Buller's losses--Umvolosi crossed by the main body--Formation of troops into square--Total numbers--Firing of kraals--Advance of Zulus from Ulundi--The Zulu attack--Repulse of Zulus--Pursuit by Cavalry--Death of Wyatt-Edgell--Losses of both sides--Withdrawal of English army--Effects of the battle of Ulundi--Surrender of 700 Zulus to Crealock--Cause of retreat after Ulundi--Resignation of Lord Chelmsford--His farewell parade--Epitome of work done by 1st column, and why it was not present at Ulundi--Ondini burnt by Barrow. 337 CHAPTER XIII. Arrival of Sir Garnet Wolseley--Reception at Durban--Changes made by Wolseley--His plans for the future--Attempt to land at Port Durnford and its failure--Sir Garnet at St. Paul's--Grand council of Zulu chiefs--Resignation of General Crealock--His farewell to his troops at Camp Umlalasi--Fêtes in honour of Lord Chelmsford--Wolseley at Pietermaritzburg--Disturbances in Pondoland and Transvaal--Wolseley at Rorke's Drift--McLeod and the Swazis--Their appearance and habits--Wolseley at Intanjaneni--Surrender of guns by Mbelebele--Adhesion of various chiefs. 359 CHAPTER XIV. Plans for the capture of Cetywayo--The Jantjis--Vijn's appearance at Victoria--His narrative--Its consequences--Despatch of Major Barrow and Lord Gifford in pursuit of the king--Their march--Description of country traversed--Gifford and Maurice sent on by Barrow--Marches and countermarches--Physical characteristics of country; its flora and fauna--Visit to kraal of friendly Zulus--Capture of two of the king's attendants--Women of the king's household captured--Captain and twenty Basutos join Lord Gifford--Gifford's stratagem to obtain information of the king's hiding-place--Cetywayo's refuge discovered--Forced night-march--Message to Major Marter--His arrival on the scene--Capture of the king. 379 * * * * *