Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-05-13

| gan. The column which LORD CDeins
ford and the Prince accompanied. Ia,
encamped on the morning of tie frs
OF June at spot called kuppie Allen
on the bank of the Blood River, IL,
boundary between the Transvaal am
Zululaud. 1t was to march that day
forward some seven miles TO aDotLeI
encam ping ground called Itelezi Hill.
Already the ground some distance il
advance had beea carefully secuted
over, and found to be clear OF Z1lus
A site for the halt next succeeding tia
at Itelt q Hill had been chosen abou
ten miles forward from the latter camp
On level ground close to the Ityotyos
River.
The Prince had for three days beer
bard at desk work. which he sbhorrt d
and he asked Col. Harrison to let hia
go forward to the Ityotyosi River, ans
plan the disposition of the camp to b,
formed there.
There seemed no risk, and Harrison
consented without consulting Lsrd
Chelmsford. Lieut.. Carey asked and
got permission to accompany the Prince
to perfect sketch, which he had al
ready made, OF the tracks leading to the
Ityotyosi camping-ground.
l was living with the General com
manding the cavalry, and l remember
as if it were but yesterday Carey com.
log to Capt. Stewart, tbs @ avalry Bri.
gsde Major, for An escort. He asked
and got authorization for six white ir-
regulars, and an equal number OF
Basutos-black troopers who were ad
mirable scouts, and who can smell q
Zulu mile away.
Such an escort was adequate for any
such service, and would have been con-
sidered ample for the commander.ip.
chief himself. Carey took the orders
and said that he would pick up the de-
tachments, as he passed through the
respective camps. Then he rode
away.
He was in hurry, and so he only
took with him. as he rode on to catch
up with the Prince, the six white ir-
regular troopers. The Bssutos required
a little time to get ready, so he did noe
| wait for them, but left instructions that
they should ride forward and overtake
him. indicating the route he was to
| take.
By an unfortunate mistake, his in
structions were misunderstood, and the
black fellows, an hour after Carey had
gone, paraded in front of the cavalry
head quarters.
They were ordered of at once to
overtake Carey, hut they did not sue
coed in striking his track, and giving
up the hunt, returned into camp. Had
the Basuto been with the Primes, in all
human probability he would have been
alive to-day.
That same night, as we we're at din
ner about seven, in Gen. Marsha LIS
tent, a scared face looked in through
the tent door.
1t was Harrison, who, with broken
agitated voice, exclaimed, my God,
the Prince Imperial is killed."
The i'll news was too true. Carey and
four of the irregulsrs had brought back
the wretched tidings, The Prince, two
troopers, and black interpreter, who
had been with the party, had been left
on the field.
Next morning Gen. Marshall took
out tho cavalry brigade to reconnoitre
the ground, and bring in the bodies;
for from the first there was no hope
that any Of the abandoned men we're
alive.
Carey accompanied the party, as did
the four troopers that had been Of the
escort. Carey was not under arrest,
aud seemed in no wise oppressed by the
gravity of his position.
We found the poor lads body in q
grassy hollow, about two hundred yards
Isek> kHa .oa1 ~ vuhsok
mounting after short rest, the party
had been surprised by the Zulus.
He Was stripped stark naked, enc eye
gouged out, his body literally covered
with assegsi staba; and his left arm
marked by countless cuts, as il he had
held 1t raised in self defence.
The two troopers lay near, slain also
by assegai wounds. On no corpse,
either Of the three human beings or OF
the two slain horses, was there any
mark of bullet wound.
The interpreters body was found q
mile away. He had died game after
clear evidence Of q desperate hand-to-
hand combat.
A court Of inquiry inculpated Carey,
| who was almost Immediately brought
to trial on charge of " misbehavior in
presence OF the enemy" 1t is curious
that Just as in the German army there
is no bugle sound that means Re.
treat" 80 in the English military code
there is no specific mention Of the crime
of cowardice."
I Was present throughout the pro.
ceedings of the court.martial on Lieut..
Carey, heard ell the evidence and his
defense; and will now attempt to give
an impartial synopsis of the circum.
stances attending the Princes untime'
ly death.
First, the ground must be cleared oil
one complication. Carey could not
fairly be considered in command of the
party. It was the Princes expedition.
True, Carey was the only commissioned
officer Of the British army present. and
Obvious duties devolved upon him in
that capacity; but the Prince was I'M
derstood to rank as Honorary Captain
and so was in nominal command, hav.
ing Carey merely as his guide, philos'
pher and friend.
After an hours halt in the Kraal by
the Ityotyosi River, the horses being
off-saddled and pssturing around, and
the hour being nearly four, Carey sug
geSted to the Prince that it was time