The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-21
NAPOLEON ON ST. HELENA
The Island Again the Enforced
Home of a Great Warrior.
DINIZULU, CHIEF OF ZULUS
He Led the Campaign Against the Eng
lish Successfully Until He Was Cap
tured Built Up the Great
Amazula Empire.
From the PhiladeInhla Times.

From the Philadelphia Times.
In the Island of St Helena, where the
white Napoleon ended his days a pris-
oner to the English. a black Napoleon is
living now, also prisoner. And singu-
larry enough there is chapter of coin
cidents which seem to unite the fortunes
of the house Of Bonapalte and the house
of Chaka.
Early in the century. when Napoleon
was overrunning Europe with his ar
mics and dazzling the minds of men
with his genius, an English sailor was
wrecked on the African coast and wan-
dered into Zululand.
He was taken before the young chief,
Chaka. and to him he told of the Won
derful outside world. of which the chief
had heard rumorS, and as al the world
was then filled with the name of Ma
poleon he told of the rise of the Corsi-
can and how he had conquered nations
and built up for himself a great empire.
The story of Napoleon captured the
fancy of Chaka, and he resolved TO be
an African Napoleon.
Then began the rise of the great Zulu
power in South Africa and Chaka
spread his conquests over great terri
tories and subjugated neighboring
tribes and built UP for himself an en-
pre. 1t fiourished until it broke itself
TO pieces against the English just as the
empire of the man whose name had in
spired its building did before it. The
empire established by Chaka stretched
along the whole southeast seaboard OF
Africa. from Limpopo to Cape Colony,
and extended far inland.
When the English landed in Natal in
1924 the empire of AmaZula was the
most powerful in Africa. Chaka made
a treaty with the English, allowing
them to live at Natal. and for this he
lin l. Il
1928. Then began the struggle between
the white man and the black man
which was to end in the destruction of
the empire founded by Chaka. Peace
and war alternated. and all the time
the Zulus lost ground.
Finally. in 1SS3-S4. the British felt
bound to blot out the Zulu power. Then
it was that Cetewayo. the heir of Chaka,
summoned forth his whole force and
hurled his 'impis." or regiments, on
the British. At Isandula the Zulus
broke the British squares and routed
the redcoats. but the end was the cap
ture of the chief and the breaking of the
Zulu power
In this war the house of Bonaparte
again became mixed up with the for
tunes of the house of Ghaka. The
prince imperial granddaughter of the
man whose example had inspired the
building of the empire of the Amazulu.
went out W liB III inc Vi thN
English, and was killed by Zulu
spear In 1884 Cetewayo died and the
quarrel was continued by his son,
DiniZulu.
Dinizulu was CONQUERED and now he
has been sent to St. Helena to end his
days on the spot where the man whose
example caused the building up OF the
black kings empire died.
AS becomes the head Of a great and
warlike line. Dinizulu is accompanied In
his exile by a numerous retinue. His
two uncles, several chiefs. a physioi ian
and a clergyman, with their wives and
children, make up a household as nu-
merous as was that of the great Napo-
leon when at ST. Helena.
The chaplain of the royal exiles is
Paul Hitimkula, a "catechist" from
Cape Town, who was invited many
years ago by Cetewayo to come to
Zululand and the the people. He is
called by the Zulus Doctor Paul. He
accompanied the exiles to St. Helena of
his own accord. DR.. Wildly, an English
man. is the physician TO the exiled
household All the Zulu attendants who
wait ON the eXles went to st. Helena of
/ their own accord
Dinizulu speaks and writes English
fluentiy and is man of more than or
binary intelligence. An effort is now
being made to procure the release OF
DiniZnlu. Ii is argued that his return
to his own people would convince them
that the English intend TO deal fairly
with them.