Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-01-08
The Civilized CeteWayO.

Nothing has yet transpired as to the
final arrangements to be made with re-
gard to the eX-zHlu King CetewayO.
He is still an involuntary occupant of
Cape Town Castle. The other day he
thought himself too old to learn, and
declined an offer to be taught; but he
has since altered his mind, and taken
some writing lessons, and now man
ages with pencil and slate to make
tOlerable copy lines of the words
"Queen Victoria" Recent portraits
Of him show a marked change in his
external appearance. When his like
ness was first taken, after his arrival
by the transport Natal, he was pre-
sented in all the nakedness of primitive
Zulu costume; but in the latest photo
graphs he appears metamorphosed into
a very pleasant-loOking ColOred gen
tleman, dressed after European fashion
in a tweed suit, with white handker-
chief protruding from his breast pocket,
and gloves and cane in hand. The
transition from barbarism to civiliza-
ton is so sudden and decided as almost
to suggest doubt whether this can be
the person who perpetrated the acts of
saVagerY ascribed to the late Monarch
of Zululand. The ex-King himself,
however, soon satisfied the curious
upon this point. He makes little or no
reservation as to the sacrifice of human
life, which was part of the system of
his government, and which he justifies
on the plea that there was no other way
of enforcing his authority among his
people.
Most of the reported facts as to the
massacre Of the Zulu girls who would
not conform to the national marriage
laws are confirmed by him. At the
feast of the first fruits, it appears, he
had given his sanction to one or two of
his regiments to put on head-rings, in
dicating that they had attained to in
dependent manhood, and at the same
time issued command that the
young women at the various
kraals were to marry these soldiers.
The women showed no inclination to
comply with this command, and, when
called to account, gave as a reason that
the regiments permitted to marry were
not good enough for them. CetewayO
then promoted another regiment to the
dignity of " head-rings," and again
declared that the girls of manageable
age were to marry at once. Still they
refused TO comply, and various devices
were again resOrted to to evade the or
der, some young women even washing
off the red dust on their hair which
marked them as manageable. The
Kings anger was then aroused, and in
q fury he directed the Umcityn regi-
ment, 5000 strong, to march to the
several kraals throughout the country,
and kill every person who had DISC
beyed him. Numbers of girls and 9TH
9rs connected with them were slaugh-
tered. The bodies Of some were placed
vt the crossroads as an example of the
Kings displeasure, and when the pa
rents of the individuals so killed went
20 bury the bodies, they brought Cete-
WayO's wrath upon themselves, and they
md the whole of their families in some
Instances were destroyed. Several
women, however, saved themselves by
eeking shelter and hiding with friends;
md those who survived lost no time in
with the Kings orders and
marrying into the regiments appointed
o them. Mr.. Longcast, the interpre-
or now with CeteWayo, was in Zulu
and at the time, and was himself in
in saving the lives Of five
-oung persons whom he hid away.
This was not the only occasion, how
yer, when the King sanctioned such
slaughter Of his people. Shortly be-
ore, some Of his soldiers who were
to assemble at NodwengO
made the excuse that sickness prevent
ID them from attending. He remarked
hat he would save the doctors the
rouble of looking after the sick, and
3 impis" of his favorite regiment, the
Imcityu, were promptly sent in every
Erection to kill the offenders against
is royal command. In some instances
he delinquents escaped from the fury
{ these impis; and, by the law and
ustom of the country, such as thus es-
aped were exempted from being again
unished in any way. But for that
aW, says Cstewaye, there would have
cen much more killing in Zululand.-
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