The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1894-01-11
TIE 'IlTADELI3 hi.sCG.
Downfall OF Luosny-l'. tao Clood-
thirsty a rican.

Downfall of Luosngal,. tao Clood-
thirsty A rioan.
General Ecio'c,us over the Termination
of Parbarous nnh Onr-sided war
fare la the pRrk Continent
-Eci-n of Terror.
The general satisfaction which has
been felt throughout South Africa at
the victory of tie Chartered com
pany's forces is caused mainly by the
fact that il will in all probability be,
So far as Matabelciand is concerned,
the death blow To a system of blood
thirsty tyranny which has prevailed
from the time, over sixty years ago,
when the forces of Moselekatse, the
father of Lobengula. swept through
the country between the Orange. Naal,
and Limpopo rivers. leaving a night
mare of desolation and death behind
them. and settled in the region now
known as Matabeleland The couatry
through which this devastating army
marched was. says Thealc. covered
=
no living being left behind
FROM that time until the present.
says the Chicago Times the Matabeles
have lived in the country from which
they are now being orsted. not by
their own toll. hut by prcying upon
the iimid tribes which originally in
habited the land. and which have ever
since been compelled. under penalty
of torture and death for the least delay
or unwillingness, to support their
ferocious tas!srnasters by periodical ]
tributes of slaves. women. cattle, and
corn. That sixty years has been for
the Mashonas and Makalaiias a reign
of terror.
As illustrating the general prac-
tiee of the Matabeles for many
wears past. Rev Father Hartman than
whom. OWING to his long residence in
the country, few are more competent
TO speak. tcstiiies that il is the custom
of an impi to approach unnoticed and
unseen a Mashona kraal in the night.
At the first. dawn of the day the impi
raises its war cry, surrounds the mn
fortunate liraai. and slaughtcrs all eS-
cept girls. children or those who are
fit for doing some useful work on the
home journey.
Sometimes it happens that the Mata-
beles drive n crowd of Mashonas into
one of their huts and SCI fire to it.
This. Father Hartman states, has been
going on for forty years and will not
stop till the Mashonas are cxterml-
mated Lobengula himself, with his
own hands, cut OFF the lips, nose, ears
and hands of poor Mashona boy who
was falsely accused of tasting the
kings beer.
Even since the occupation of the
country hy the whites similar raids
have been of frequent occurrence. In
the early part of last year, for instance,
some fugitive Makalakas came into
Victoria asking for protection against
a large Matabeles impi which was
raiding and killing at Chibi's and other
kraals across the Tuli road In May,
1892, Chenaka and Cunye, Mashona
chiefs. reported that large impi had
attacked sheir kraals, killed many of
their people and taken away their cat
tie and goats.
In July of the same year. Lobengula
had fit of jealously of the regents.
Uphlaba and Sidhlohlo, and acting on
the kings instructions the lmbizo reg
iment demolished the unfortunate re-
rents ard their families, root and
2 branch In August. while Capt. Chap
lin was on an expedition to discover
and punish the natives who had inter
I al re
at Nuanetsi. he heard on all sides com
plants from the natives of raids by the
-aatabeles.
In October last taree hundred Mataz
beles were raiding the Makalakas
hetween the Nuanetsi and Lundi riv-
ers, killing men, women and children.
In November Luhengula sent large
impi to punish Chici, and about the
same time party of forty Matabeles
arrived at Lo Magondi's l1raal and
asked him why he allowed the Eng
lish to dig for gold without the kings
leave. ~
After they had agreed to discuss the
matter over in the morning, Lo Ma
gondi went to his hut, but about day
light next morning his dwelling was
surrounded by Matabcles, who called
him cut, shot him and afterwards
stabbed him. They then killed his two
brothers and two boys and fred into
the womcns hut, killing two of the
chiefs wives. On departing the Mata-
heles took away with them eighty to
ninety women and al the chiefs goats
and sheep. ~
In March of the present year large
Matabele impi came raiding down IN
the direction of falapye. and some
of the fueitives who escaped them
reported the murder OF several indnnas'
including Luhengula's brother. In;
yande This recital Of horrors may con-
clude with q reference tothe massacre
Of the Mashonas in the streets Of Vic
toria in July last. the event which di:
rectly led to the present situation,