. Natal province : descriptive guide and official hand-book . Umkolumba There are evidences of limestone deposits in the valley, coal is knownto exist in the neighbourhood, and also around Estcourt. Near Weenen is theUmkolumba Mountain, which was used as a heliographic station throughoutthe Ladysmith siege. Weenen has a sad yet stirring history. In the year1837, during their homeless wanderings, a band of Dutch emigrants from the Cape terri-tory lookeddown fromthe heightsof the Drak-ensberg uponthe 1 ovelyplains ofNatal. Choosingas theirleaders PietRetief andGert Maritzthey cam ethrough thewil
. Natal province : descriptive guide and official hand-book . Umkolumba There are evidences of limestone deposits in the valley, coal is knownto exist in the neighbourhood, and also around Estcourt. Near Weenen is theUmkolumba Mountain, which was used as a heliographic station throughoutthe Ladysmith siege. Weenen has a sad yet stirring history. In the year1837, during their homeless wanderings, a band of Dutch emigrants from the Cape terri-tory lookeddown fromthe heightsof the Drak-ensberg uponthe 1 ovelyplains ofNatal. Choosingas theirleaders PietRetief andGert Maritzthey cam ethrough thewild passesof the moun-tains to thisthen savageland, pitched. Ostrich Farm at Weenen 16 their tents along i he hanks ol i he I ugela and Bushman s Rivingaan, For a granl of land. I I i oi Retief and his party immediately after the ■■ on ■/. onclu This, however, was bul the beginning ol ir bloodshed, for Dingaan, ii upon exterminating the remaining emigrants a1 once di ■ ere foully murdered, only the cattle hem;; spared. In all som< Boers wept greatly For the massacred, and in remembrance nam* on the Bushmans River, Weenen, which means weepin I hey then .■ unst their barbaric Foes, bu1 Dingaans power was noi in ui ten months afterwards, when the merciless and treacherous king was utterlydefeated and 3,000 of his followers were shin. I our hundred Zulus, on the banks of a tributary of the Buffalo, whose waters ran red withthe
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