The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-09-23 00:00:00

ZULU LAND.

TRE CAPTURE OF CETEWAYO.

For more than • week Cai,tain Lord Gifford, taking
his life in his hand, tracked the king day agd night
with the persistence of • sleuth hound, through the
most untroddan wilds of Zululand.

His party, at times reduced to • mere handful,
relied for provisions on food obtained from natives
who were but latey in arms. Led by information
from the urns source, they pressed the king hard, and
captured his attendants, including his gun bearer, who
had with him a valuable ripe.

in--inTa.t—te-rn-p-i-t;;l;eak through our toils to
the coast, Cetew•yo doubled back to the Ngome
Forget, Lord Clifford still being hard on his track.
On the 27th of August he took Cetewayo's sleeping
met at a kraal where the king had slept. Two Ira
were found there, and, as they denied all knowledge of
Cetewayo's whereabouts, they were blindfolded, and a
volley fired in the air. The ruse succeeded, and one,
exclaiming 'My brother is shot," promised to lead
Gifford to the king's retreat.
Led by this boy be threaded the defiles of the forest
at night, and alter a wild, perilous ride reached at
dawn of the 28th the spot, which was in an open
glade.
Fearing the escape of the king to the surrounding
' forget, Clifford sent beck intelligence and waited till
night to make the capture. While laying hidden he
watched the king slaughter an ox, and then described
• body of cavalry on the ridge opposite the kraaL
This was Major Matter, who was commanding a party
of dragoons. He had ;relived Lord Gifford's intelli-
gence and moving down on the opposite side effected
the Intelli-
gence,
capture.
At two o'dodc p.m., too sore to ride and too foot.
sore to wa/k. Cetevrayo was brought to the camp in an
ambulance cart. On the road his followers tried to
escape, and five were shot.
This unlocked-for and fortunate capture terminates
the first Zulu war.

--"Tie-ii-n-is-oOrr—es- poi dent, writing from Ulm d , c n
the 31et ult. says :—The King arrived in the camp
this morning, under a guard of the King's Dragoon
Guards, 60th Rifles, and Native Contingent. He is
lodged in a tent next the guard tent, with the girls
and attendants in an adjoining tent. He gave some
trouble on the march, sitting down at intervals, saying
that he was exhausted and would go no further, and
refusing a horse or mule. Si, Garnet Wolealey
telegraphs to-day to Sir Bartle Furs he hopes to leans
Ulundi on the sth of September for the Transvaal,
when all the troops will be withdrawn from Zululand
with the exception of a small column swaged in the
of the country to the north-west. He
pacification
officials of Natal to repr sent the British
power, one in the north and one in the south of Zulu.
land They will have temporarily a smell body-guard
of Distal natives. The health of the troops is good.
Simulate Drr.—The king will start at two o'clock,
In charge of Captain Poole, 8.A., for Fort Victora.
Hs la ssid by those who know him to be sadly broken
down since the days of his kingship, but he has lost
neither the royal mien nor the habit of command. He
Is reported to have caused two men to be killed for I
disobedience of orders two days before his capture.
The king sums to have suffered his capture partly
weariness and exhaustion, partly because
teroeti himself hemmed in, and partly throu4h
one of the fits of morose and sullen resignation
which have lately come upon hi.n at intervals. Lord
Gifford goes home by the next steamer with des-
patches and an ivory tusk for the Queen. The kraal in
which the king was captured Use 18 miles north of
Brigadier Clarke's Camp en the Black Umvolosi.
Lord Gifford marched from near there through Tues-
day night, arriving within four miles of the kraal at
daybreak with the white cavalry and natives. They
lay in ambush, fearing to advance across the open
ground and waiting for the eight to make the attack,
lest the king should us and escape into the bush,
which borders the kraal within 100 yards on the north
side. Lord Gifford we. on the south-east side. In
the meantime Major ldarter, with the King'. Dragoon
Guards, appeared on the north-east and was seen by
the king, but was not hared, the king thinking the
cavalry in the bad ground could not apprcach quietly
or without warning. Major Harter, however, had
stripped the saddles and left the scabbards behind. Di.-
appearing from view, he stole up noiselessly through
the bash. The native contingent, whom be had eon-
coaled, were pat la advaaos sad they were &hie to
MOTO 1110111 rapid!) than the hones. These men
dashed out of the bush and surrounded the kraal, say-
ing, " The white man is coming; you are caught."
Major Harter then rode up and dismounted, entered
the laud, and cowing straight to the but in which the
king was, called on him to come forth and surrender.
The king feared and said, " No, you come unto me ;"
but Harter wee inflexible, and the king, creepinj, out,
stood up among the dragoons with stately composure.
A dragoon sought to lay his bands on him, but he
waved the man back disdainfully, saying, "White
soldier, let we be." He then asked te be sh,t. Lord
Gifford's dismounted men, posted in concealment to
watch the kraal, had seen Major Marter's ruse, and
with the news to Lord Gifford, who then galloped
M. The king's hearing on the march between the
lines of the 60th Regiment into Ws tent was dignified
and calm. Wearing a red blanket upon his breast in ,
the manner of a Roman toga, be stepped slowly, lock-
ing rouni with head thrown hack and haughty gam at
the aoldisn around him. When captured he asked I
the rank of the officer who had taken him. Retreated
the native contingent contemptuously.