Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1879-07-11
Zulu Warfare.

The Pioneer Press IL indebted 10 VIM.
B. Carbon Of 81. Paul for the follow
ing interesting extracts from . private
letter received by him from an intimate
personal friend in South Africa:
Durorn Pan, April 80, l879.-sincs
my last all kinda Of calamities have
happened to the STATE" the South
African State" ! mean. We hre had .
~ elve months war against the Kafirs
in Kimberly and the surrounding dis.
tricts. fought by volunteers only. a. We
had NO regular troops available TO assist.
In this war I lost two frisnds-splendid
fellows. One Wa Q Jew. and killed In
the frst engagement. They both died
without being able 10 say . word. a. i'm
mediatsly alter the bullet struck them
they fell dead. Our volunteers are REQ
ognized throughout the whole colony a.
being the hrsvest and finest body Of men
In South Africa.
At the close Of the above war. the
Zulu war commenced In Kafirland,
Natal, which II about 900 miles from
hsfe. The Chief Of this tribe Ii. - you
may have seen In the newspapers, called
Cetewayo, an uuoouth beast. and he 10
King OF Zululsnd; his subjects number
about $50, 900 males and the same mum.
Der females: ont Of these be can muster
$50. 900 fighting men. These are trained
warriors, not allowed to marry. % the
King thinks IL would incapaoitate them
for Held service were they to marry.
Their mode Of fighting and punishment
are a. follows: But frst I'll describe
their arms and weapons. They have .
ride. assasais (Which II Ike . harpoon
in shape, and has jagged edges, 20
when IL ps~nstrates the hssh II 10 dificult
to sxtricsts) and shield. Their mode Of
fighting u this: They rush on In . body
with fearful cries. Are . volley. throw
their rides away. and close with their
assagsis. When they kill or wound an
enemy. they throw their shield away and
use the body In place Of II. They
sometimes pick up their own deed for
the same purpose. They are punished
In the following manner for showing
oowardios. or running away whom In &C.
ton: The King calls the of5sndsr or
offenders, after the battle. into his
presence. and they are q by ons
straneled by the strong man OF the tribe,
who takes the oulprit's head In his
hand (speaking In the singular now,
while another holdst the body and screws
It around like one would . fowls there
BY breaking the neck and causing death.
In the Asandala massacre (Which would
not have happened but for the bad gen.
eralship Of Lord Chelmsford), 900 OF
the Twenty fourth fell to . man. They
fought bravsly against 10000 Of the
enemy. and not one escaped or would
be taken prisoner. II bang worse than
death to b captured. They tortured
twenty English soldiers they had On.
trapped about . month ago In the fol.
lowing manner (they allowed ons to e.
cape. 20 that he could tell about ~: On
the nrst day the Kanirs took red-hot
pincers and tore the prisoners arms and
body with them; and about three hours
after this then stuck steel skswsrs
through various parts Of the body; the
following day they we're dispatched by
having o ramrod thrust down thsir
threats into their stomaohs. and when
they had nearly expired their bellies
we're ripped up-snd 20 these poor fol.
lows perishsd. They had no means Of
taking their own lives or they would
have done IL.