page_title: Charles Rawden Maclean
section_title: Relations with Shaka
hierarchical_section_title: Charles Rawden Maclean / Port Natal and Zululand / Relations with Shaka
caption_attribution_description: English: Sketch of King Shaka (1781 - 1828) from 1824. Attributed to James King, it appeared in Nathanial Isaacs’ "Travels and Adventures in Eastern Africa", published in 1836. Українська: Эдине відоме зображення ватажка Шака Зулу (1781 - 1828) зроблене сучасником Джеймсом Кінгом у 1824
context_page_description: Charles Rawden Maclean, also known as "John Ross", was born on 17 August 1815 in Fraserburgh and died 13 August 1880 at sea on the RMS Larne while en route to Southampton. In a tribute to him during the re-dedication of his grave in Southampton in 2009, the Zulu War author and broadcaster Ian Knight said:
context_section_description: On reaching shore, the party found Farewell's camp, but Farewell and his party were on a hunting expedition.  The crew of The Mary were instructed by King to rebuild her, a task that would take three years since the timber had first to be seasoned. Once Farewell returned, King and some members of ship's company, though not Maclean paid a courtesy visit to Dingane, brother of the Zulu king Shaka.  Once Shaka heard of King's arrival, King and his entire party were summoned to his kraal.
  The party were well received by Shaka and were given permission to stay, but when the party left, Shaka demanded that Maclean remain behind. Maclean spent a considerable time at Shaka's kraal. In a letter to The Times in 1875 he wrote "During the four years of my residence in Natal, three years were, with little interruption, passed at King Shaka's residence."  In reality, a little over three years elapsed between the foundering of The Mary and Maclean's final departure from Natal. Isaacs wrote about a trip that he, Maclean and others made in August 1826 to barter for food from the local population If Isaacs was accurate in recording Maclean's presence in the party, this would have cut further into the time that Maclean spent at Shaka's kraal.
caption: Shaka, king of the Zulu
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