The morning call., 1893-11-11
TRAINED FOR WAR ONLY.
The Zulus Have for Generations Had
No Other Object in Life.
New Y ork Tribune.


MI Haggard's tales have given us q b,ob,v
colored blu by no means OvercoIored view NJ
the Zulus and their military prowrss. Accord
ing to the New York Tribune it would he nira-
cult for any one TO pal them In too pl owino
col0rs. They are the Spartans of Africa For
generations they have lived only for war
They have been bred and fed and trained ana
educated solely for battle. In physique thew
surpass all other black meu. In discIpline
they vie with the armies of Europe In fierce
ness and courage they rank with the be t war.
riors OF any land or age. The romancer's Ga
la I'll and UmslopOgaas are not inventions. They
are Photographic picturings of types repeated
a hundred thousand times ID Zululand. The
history OF these people as cOnquering nation
dates from the beginning OF This century, when
T'Chaka founded The Zulu empire and its mar
Vicious military system.
That extraordinary man made warfare SCI
entifc occupation just as completely in his way
as did Hannibal or Alexander or Napoleon.
He adopted the old Spartan rule, to kill all
weak and scky children and rear only the
strong. In this way and by admirable systems
OF physical training he made the ZaluS the
matchless race they are. Then he made every
man soldier and fighting the sole work OF the
nation. The fields and f1ocks and granares Of
other tribes We're their supply IhuS ne be-
came the unchallenged master of what, 10 him,
was all the world. He was murdered at last by
bis brother Dingaan, as Mr. Haggard reminds
us, and then the decline OF the Zuiu empire be-
| gan. Dlngadn was den0Sed In FAVOR Oh Ills
brother Panda, and Panda was succeeded by
his son CetewayO, with whom. after MS last
heroic struggle with England, the Zulu dynasty
ended.
But the greatest of T'Chaka's warriors, his
war secretary and field marsh |, was one
| MoselekatZe, or Unslikati as some spell it.
And not long before the death of T'Chaka he
WI the flower of the Zulu army, marched OveI
| the Drakensberg into the land OF the Bechuanas
| and founded the Matabele Kingdom. There he
adopted the same discipline thar had made the
| Zulus so great, with the result that the Mate
| beles soon actually surpassed in power the
| parent Zulu empire itself. For nearly fifty
| years tn name OF MoselEatZe was terror Ia
all the tribes from the ZambeSl TO the Vaal, and
more than once his c0nquering leglonS swept
| across the Transvaa aud tile Orange State into
| the Basutoland and Natal.
twenty-five years ago he died and his son
LobeDgula regned In his place. This monarch
| has allowed The military prowess of his people
| greatly tn decline aud has been reasonably
| friendly to the British. But his armies have
never been defeated. He is, almost as much
as was his father, scOurge 10 all Ills native
| neigID0rs. And lie bitterly Opposes the alb
| sorption of his kingdom by The British. al
| though hitherto a subsidy has kept his oDpos-
ton passive His RAID against the peaceful
Mashonas Is really against their patron and
protector, the British South Africa Company,
and 1t is with IL and with such forces as Mr..
Rhodes can send 10 its assistance that his
$4,000 warriors will have to deal.