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With other lads of like age , he would go up to kleza ( i.e. drink milk squirted direct
from the udder into his mouth ) at one or other of the numerous military kraals ,
there to tend no longer his father's but the king's herds . This was an established
...
With other lads of like age , he would go up to kleza ( i.e. drink milk squirted direct
from the udder into his mouth ) at one or other of the numerous military kraals ,
there to tend no longer his father's but the king's herds . This was an established
...
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He was in a generous mood and he felt that his warriors should be rewarded for
their great effort by a relaxation - a very temporary one - of the stern military and
moral code . In a puckish spirit he arose and strode in front of the massed
warriors ...
He was in a generous mood and he felt that his warriors should be rewarded for
their great effort by a relaxation - a very temporary one - of the stern military and
moral code . In a puckish spirit he arose and strode in front of the massed
warriors ...
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Throughout the year 1825 the Zulu army was not employed on any large - scale
operation but spent most of its time in the cantonments provided by the great
military kraals . The absence of disease in the army was a remarkable fact ...
Throughout the year 1825 the Zulu army was not employed on any large - scale
operation but spent most of its time in the cantonments provided by the great
military kraals . The absence of disease in the army was a remarkable fact ...
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User Review - nwdavies - LibraryThingA fascinating book about a fascinating man and culture. I was left with the feeling that, had Shaka been living in, say, Europe and been white he would have been heaped with long lasting praise as an ... Read full review
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User Review - DinadansFriend - LibraryThingOriginally written in 1955, I find this an excellent biography. Shaka began from a very low status position among his people and re-organized them into a very respectable, bronze or early Iron age ... Read full review
Contents
ZULULAND AND THE ZULUS IN THE LATE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY I | 1 |
BIRTH AND EXILE II | 11 |
THE YOUNG SOLDIERPAMPATATHE ASSEGAI | 21 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Shaka Zulu: The Rise of the Zulu Empire |
| Author | E. A. Ritter |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Longmans, Green, 1955 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 9 Apr 2009 |
| Length | 383 pages |
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