The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-11-11
TRAINED FOR WAR ONLY.
The Zulus Have for Generations Had no
Other Object in Life.

Other Object in Life.
Mr.. Haggard's tales have given US a
highly colored but by no means over
colored view of the Zulus and their
military prowess. According to the
New York Tribune it would be diff
ficult for anyone to paint them in too
glowing colors. They are the Spartans
of Africa. For generations they have
lived only for war They have been
bred and fed and trained and educated
solely for battle In physique they
surpass all other black men. In dis
cipline they vie with the armies of
Europe IN fierceness and courage
they rank with the best warriors of
any land or age. The romancer' S
Galazi and UmslopogaaS are not in
ventions. They are photographs pic
turings of types repeated a hundred
thousand times in Zululand. The his
tory of these people as a conQuering
nation dates from the beginning of
this country, when T'Chaka founded
the Zulu empire and its marvellous mil
itary system. That extraordinary
man made warfare scientific occu-
patton just as completely in his way
as did Hannibal or Alexander or Ma
poleon. He adopted the old Spartan
rule, to kill all weak and sickly chill
dren and rear only the strong. In
this way and by admirable systems of
physical training he made the Zulus
the matchless race they are. Then he
made every man a soldier, and fight
ing the sole work of the nation. The
fields and f1ocks and granaries of
other tribes were their supply. Thus
he became the unchallenged master of
what to him, was all the world. He
was murdered at last by his brother,
Dingaan. as Mr.. Haggard reminds US,
and then the decline of the Zulu en-
pire began. Dingaan was depoSed in
favor of his brother Panda, and Panda
was succeeded by his son Cetewayo,
with whom. after his last heroic strug-
gle with England, the Zulu dynasty
ended.
But the greatest of T'Chaka's war
riors, his war secretary and field
marshal. was one Moselekatze, or I'm
silikati. as some spell it. And not
long before the death of T'Chaka he,
with the flower of the Zulu army,
marched over the Drakensberg into
the land of the Bechuanas and found
ed the Matabele kingdom. There he
adopted the same discipline that had
made the Zulus so great, with the re-
suit that the Matabeles soon actually
surpassed in power the parent Zulu
empire itself. For nearly fifty years
the name of Moselekatz was terror
to all the tribes from the Zambesi to
the Vaal, and more than once his
lconquering legions swept across the
Transvaal and the Orange state into
Basutoland and Natal. Twenty-Five
years ago he died and his son Loben-
gula reigned in his place. This mon
arch has allowed the military proves
! OF his people greatly to decline and
has been reasonably friendly to the
British. But his armies have never
been defeated. He is almost as much
as was his father, a scourge to all his
native neighbors. And he bitterly OPP
poses the absorption of his kingdom
by the British although hitherto sub
sidy has kept his opposition passive.
His raid against the peaceful Mash
onas is really against their patron and
protector, the British South Africa
company. and it is with it and with
such forces as Mr.. Rhodes can send to
| its assistance that his $4,000 warriors
will have to deal.