. Battles of the nineteenth century . TROL. ii: All the people now prepared to leave the deadlybanks of the Shangani and come in. Numberswere too weak to travel, so Dawson promisedthat food and medicine should be sent to themwithout delay. Some of the indunas accompaniedhim back to Invati to represent the others. Iwas present when they were brought before The Administrator explained to themthat there would be no more king, and the whitemen would govern the country, but the indunaswho behaved well would still rule their people, occupied before the war. He assured them thatthe white
. Battles of the nineteenth century . TROL. ii: All the people now prepared to leave the deadlybanks of the Shangani and come in. Numberswere too weak to travel, so Dawson promisedthat food and medicine should be sent to themwithout delay. Some of the indunas accompaniedhim back to Invati to represent the others. Iwas present when they were brought before The Administrator explained to themthat there would be no more king, and the whitemen would govern the country, but the indunaswho behaved well would still rule their people, occupied before the war. He assured them thatthe white men bore no grudge against those ofthe Matabele who had taken up arms againstthem and killed their soldiers, \iite men knewthey must lose some of their number when theywent to war. The man he respected most in thewhole country was old Umjan, who had foughthardest against us, and had stood by his Kingto the very end. Dr. Jameson then asked theindunas if they had anything to say. Theyreplied that, having no other road to go, they had. HE SOLD HIS LIFE DEARLY (/. II9). being answerable to the white magistrates ; andthere must be no more killing or witchcraft. Hepromised them full protection, and told them toreturn to the cultivation of the lands they had come to lay down their heads before the greatwhite chief, who could kill them or not. Theywere pleased with the treatment they hadreceived at the hands of the white man. And ni BATTLES OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. now we can sleep, they concluded by saying—the usual Zulu method of expressing relief fromanxiety. Often when men came in to surrenderat Buluwayo, and Dr. Jameson asked them whatthey wanted, they would repl): We havecome to learn it we may sleep. When Dawson and Rile}- were on the Shan-gani, the natives took them to the spot whereWilsons party had fallen—about four miles fromthe river-bank. They found the bones of thethirty-four troopers lying close together wherethe men had stood at bay and died buried
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