The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-01-17

masses OF pellets being colored with the
substances already mentioned, and
some Others. Francisco NeoS.
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The Civilized CetewayO.
Nothing has yet transpired as to the
tinal arrangem ents to be made with re-
gard to the ex-Zulu 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
very pleasant-looking colored gem
tleman, dressed after European fashion
in 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 iustifes
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 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
fury he directed the Umcityn regi-
ment, 5000 strong, to march to the
several kraals throughout the country,
and kill every person who had diso-
beyed him. Numbers of girls and 9TH
ers connected with them were slaugh-
tered. The bodies of some were placed
at the crossroads as an example of the
Kings displeasure, and when the pa
rents of the individuals so killed went
to bury the bodies, they brought Cete-
wayo's wrath upon themselves, and they
and the whole of their families in some
instances were destroyed. Several
women, however, saved themselves by
seeking shelter and hiding with friends;
and those who survived lost no time in
complying with the Kings orders and
marrying into the regiments appointed
to them. MIR. Longcast, the interpre-
ter now with Cetewayo, was in Zulu
land at the time, and was himself in
strumental in saving the lives of five
young persons whom he hid away.
This was not the only occasion, how
ever, when the King sanctioned such
a slaughter of his people. Shortly be-
fore, some of his soldiers who were
summoned to assemble at Nodwengo
made the excuse that sickness prevent
ed them from attending. He remarked
that he would save the doctors the
trouble of looking after the sick, and
." impis' of his favorIue regiment, the
Umcityu, were promptly sent in every
direction to kill the offenders against
his royal command. In some instances
the delinquents escaped from the fury
of these impis; and, by the law and
custom of the country, such as thus es-
capped were exempted from being again
punished in any way. But for that
law, says Cetewayo, there would have
been much more killing in Zululand.-
London Times.