Shaka Zulu"The classic of African History -- a biography of Shaka Zulu, founder of the Zulu nation, born leader and brilliant general...E.A. Ritter grew up with the Zulus, earning their respect and accumulating a rich store of material during his long association with them. Shaka's life and deeds had been handed down by word of mouth from generation to generation, and they are here evoked with a sense of drama and an eye for detail." -- Back cover. |
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Page 162
... arrived as the sun was setting - as blood - red as when it had arisen on that fateful day . Arrived at the hill of death Shaka grimly surveyed its toll . The Zulu army had fought its first real battle and it had gloriously proved itself ...
... arrived as the sun was setting - as blood - red as when it had arisen on that fateful day . Arrived at the hill of death Shaka grimly surveyed its toll . The Zulu army had fought its first real battle and it had gloriously proved itself ...
Page 288
... arrived , said of them : " Their eyes have fire . ' And what- ever else Farewell and Fynn may otherwise have lacked , they were resolute characters , and yet not unkindly , and their native followers adored them . Nor did they and ...
... arrived , said of them : " Their eyes have fire . ' And what- ever else Farewell and Fynn may otherwise have lacked , they were resolute characters , and yet not unkindly , and their native followers adored them . Nor did they and ...
Page 368
... arrived from Pondoland and vicinity , whither they had been dispatched to procure crane feathers and monkey , genet and other skins for the Royal ward- robe . Shaka led the way from the Dukuza kraal to the small kraal , called Kwa ...
... arrived from Pondoland and vicinity , whither they had been dispatched to procure crane feathers and monkey , genet and other skins for the Royal ward- robe . Shaka led the way from the Dukuza kraal to the small kraal , called Kwa ...
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
Zululand and the Zulus in the late Eighteenth | 15 |
Birth and Exile | 25 |
Copyright | |
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