The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-30 00:00:00

PRINCE ALFRED AMONG THE ZULUS.

On the east side of Pietermauritzburg there is a
flat piece of land, with an almost inappreciable slope
to the Umsundusi River, on the east side of which it
lies. This tract of ground is popularly known as "the
Park," having been set apart for that purposeby the
corporation of the city. In the vicinity of this grassy
plain there had been gathering during the day seve-
ral companies of native warriors. By 3 o'clock
about 4,000 Zulus were assembled in different
bodies, each under its own chief, and with its own
distinctive appendage. Exceedingly jealous and
emulous of each other's grandeur are these coloured
legions. Here, for instance, is a group of several
hundreds, busily rehearsing their subsequent per-
formances. They are distinguished by a long taper-
ing feather, stuck in the centre of their woolly
wigs. They have a weighty complication of skin
strips and cut tails hung round them. Hardly an
inch of their sable figures can be discerned. Bands
of long ox-hair adorn their limbs. Large oval
shields of oxhide reach above their chin and almost
hide their persons. At the present moment they
are chanting a long, low kind of refrain, which
gradually swells in a semi-roar as the dance pro-
ceeds. Now one little fellow rushes out of the
ranks. He leaps in the air like a kangaroo. He
tosses his arms about, rolls his eyeballs round until
nothing but the whites are seen, gesticulates, and
jabbers away some inconceivable nonsense with the
rapidity of falling water. He executes semi-somer-
saults, bobs his head upland down, shakes his tails
and his shield about in the wildest way, and makes
himself generally as savage and untamed a human
animal as possible. Such a man, behaving in such
a manner before a London audience, would be at
once set down as a cannibal, and avoided accord-
ingly. Natalians know better. The poor creature
is perfectly harmless and would repeat the per-
formance on any day of the week for a pinch of
snuff. At last they are all duly marshalled before
the Prince. Tribe after tribe moves down the sur-
rounding heights, and, shouting their monotonous
war songs, take up their position on the low
ground. One can now form some idea of what a
Zulu war fight would be. Not so very alarming an
affair after all. These noisy regiments, with their
rankless disorder, could no more stand against a
properly drilled enemy than a flock of sheep can
against a trained dog. A charge of cavalry would
send them again and again to the four quarters of
the compass. A shower of bullets would decimate
their numbers and put them all ignominiously to
flight. There is no more significant indication of
the confidence generally felt in the safety of our
own position than was afforded by the
utter indifference shown by all the young
and old Europeans present to the savage
grandeur of these aboriginal warriors. The cop-
per-coloured regiments are now drawn up in line.
This line is a curved one, and formed one gigantic
semicircle, extending for about one-third of a mile,
and consisting of Zulus three feet deep. To the
eye they present little more than a row of shields,
hedged by bunches of feathers, and varied occa-
sionally by the gleam of a row of glistening eyes.
—Cape Paper.

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the whole building, and the firemen, some of whom got
severely burnt, were unable to save the greater part of the
building and contents from destruction.
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