The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-11-04
TRAINED FOR WAR ONLY.
The Zolua Have for Generations Had Ne
Other Object In Life.

The ZaIua Have for Generations Had Nc =
Other object In Life.
Mr.. Haegsrd's tales have given us
highly colsred but by NO means over
colored view of the Zuius and their
military prowess 1t would be difficult
for any one to pain, them in TOO glow
ing celors They are the spartans OF
Africa. For generations they have
lived only for war. They have been bred
and fed and trained AID educated sole
IL for battle. In physique they sur
pass all other black men In discipline
they vie with the armies OF Europe.
In ferceness and courage they rank
with the best warriors OF any land or
age. The romanccr's CaIazi and l m
slopogaAs are not iuvcntions they
are Photographic pictnrings OF types
repeated a hundred thousand times IN
Zululand The history OF these people
as conquering nation dates from tho
beginning of this century, when rCha-
ka founded the Zulu empire and ITS
marvellous military system. That es-
traordinary man made warfare a scieu-
tific occupation Just as completely IN
his way as did Hannibal or Alexander
or Napoleon He adopted the old Spar
tan rule, 10 kill all weak and sichly
children and rear only the strong. In
this way and by admirable systems of
physical training he rnadc the Lulus
the matchless race they are. Then he
made every man soldier. and
fighting the sole work of the ua-
ton. The fields and granarics or
other tribes were their supply
Thus he became the unchailenged
master of what. 20 him. WIS all The
world lie was murdered at last sy
his brother Dingaan, as Mr.. H2ggard
reminds us, and then the decline of tho
Zulu empire began DinGaan was de-
posed in favor OF his brother Panda.
and Panda was succeeded by his son
Cetewayo. with whom. after his last
heroic struggle wish England. tn,
Zulu dynasty ended.
But the greatest of TChaI<a's war
riors. his war secretary and field mar
shal. was one Mosslekatze. or Unsili-
kati, as some spell IL And not long
before the death Of T'Chaka, he, with
the flower Of the Zulu army. marched
over the Drakeusbcrg into the land or
the Bechuanas and founded the Sata-
belle kingdom. There he adopted the
same discipline that had made the
ZuIus so great. with the result that
the Matabcles soon actually surpassed
in power the parent Zulu empire itself
For nearly fifty .ears the name o.
Mosclekatze was terror e. al The
tribes from the Zambesi To the Naai,
and more than once his cOnqusring ie-
yiops swept across the TraBsvaal and
the Orange state into Easu.oland aud
Natal Twenty-Five year. ago be died
and his son Lobeuguis rsigDsd 10 tis
+ place. This monarch has allowed ths
+ military provess Of his people greatly
+ 10 decline and has been reasonaolt
friendly 10 the British But bis ar
! mics have never been defeated lie is.
almost as much as was his father.
scourge to all his native nrighoors
And he bitterly opposes the absorption
Of his kingdom BY the Brit ish. although
hitherto q subsidy has kept his opppss-
tion passive His raid against the
peaceful MashonAs Is really against
their patron and protector. t{e British
South Africa Co. and il j. with u and
/ with such forces a. NJ. Rhodes cab
l scnd 10 SIS assistance that bis twenty
/ five thousand warriors wll Lave 1'
! de-! y Y Tribune