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In the short run, at least, events will be strongly affected by what the Coloureds do. Nxumalo assumed that one of his own men had killed him, for immediately the wife was taken into that man's care, without much protest from her. Their quarry was Mzilikazi of the Kumalo clan, an extraordi- nary young commander who even now, at the youthful age of twenty-seven, was betraying signs of challenging Shaka. ' Pushing some rocks together, he formed a kind of chair on which he could sit and view this wonderful rhinoceros, and once or twice he broke into laughter.

' When the volatile man disappeared into his cabin, Saltwoo reflected on his curious behavior: Cronje had helped storm Majuba b in 188 1. I feel driven to pass through this community, helping and praying. When th started from the town, some of the men who had withstood th siege wanted to join, but could not: 'We have no horses.