Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-01-26

thus in the forest. since she dared not
venture out of it, fearing lest she should
be seized and for a second time taste OF
the judgment of the King. In the for
est at least she was safe, for none oar
ed enter there, nor did the Esemkofu
give her further trouble. Once or Twice
she saw them, but on each occasion they
fed shrieking from her presence, seek
ing some distant retreat where they hid
themselves or persisted. Nor did food
fail her, for finding that it was taken
the piOus givers brought it in plenty TO
the Rock of Offering.
But, oh! the life was dreadful, and
the gloom and loneliness, coupled with
her sorrows, at times drove her almost
to insanity. Still she lived on, though
often she desired to die, for the corpse
she had found was not the corpse or
NahOon, and in her heart there still
shone that spark Of hope; yet what she
hoped for she could not tell.
When Philip MADDEN reached the civ
ilized regions he found that war was
about to be declared between the Queen
and the Cetywayo, King Of the ANA
zulu; also that in the prevailing excite
ment his little adventure with the
Utrecht store-keeper had been over
looked or forgotten. He was the owner
of two good buck wagons with spans
of sailed oxen, and at that time vehicles
were much in request to carry military
stores for the columns which were to
advance into Zululand; indeed, the
transport authorities were glad to pay
$50 a month for the hire of each wa
gon and to guarantee the owners against
all loss of cattle. Although he was not
DESTROYS of returning to Zululand, this
bait proved too much for Hadden, who
accordingly leased out his wagons to
the COmmissariat, together with his
own services as conductor and inter-
prefer.
He was attached to No. 3 column Of
the invading force, which, it may be re-
membered, was under the immediate
command of Lord Chelmsford, and on
the 21st of January, 1879, he marched
with it by the road that runs from
Rorke's Drift to the Indeni forest, and
encamped that night beneath the shad-
Ow of the steep and desolate mountain
known as Isandhlwana
That day also a great army of King
CetywayO's, numbering 10000 men and
more, moved down from the Upindo
Hill and camped upon the stony plain
that lies a mile and half to the east Of
Isandhlwana. No fires were lit and it
lay there in utter silence, for the war
riors were sleeping on their spears"
With that impi was the Umcityu regi-
ment, $500 strong. At the first break
OF dawn the induna in command of the
Umcityu looked up from beneath the
shelter of the black shield with which
he had covered his body, and through
the thick mist he saw a great man
standing before him. clothed only in a
mocha, a gaunt, wild eyed man. who
held a rough club-in his hand. When
he was spoken to the man made no an
swer he only leaned upon his club,
looking from left to right along the
dense array of innumerable shields.
who is this Silwana wild crea-
ture)?' asked the Induna of his cap
tainS, wondering.
The captains stared at the wanderer.
and one of them answered: This is
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ZOmba, who not long ago held rank in
this regiment of the Umcityu. His be-
trOthed, Nanea, daughter of Umgona,
was killed together with her father by
order of the Black One, and Nahoon
went mad with grief at the sight of it,.
for the fire Of Heaven entered his brain,
and mad he has wandered ever since. ="
What would you here, Nahoon-ka-
Zomba?" asked the Induna.
Then Nahoon spoke slowly my
regiment goes down to war against the
white men; give me a shield and a
spear, 0, Captain Of the King, that
may fight with my regiment, for l seek
face in battle"
So they gave him shield and a spear.
for they dared not turn away one whose
brain was alight with the fire of
Heaven.
When the sun was high that day bull
lets began to fall among the ranks of
the Umcityu. Then the black shielded.
black-plumed Umcityu arose, company
by company, and after them arose the
whose vast Zulu army, breast and horns
together, and swept down in silence
upon the doomed British camp. a NOV