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 190
... began , but presently in the rear of the outermost groups the horrible death - cries arose again . The Zulu killers mostly attached themselves to the tail end of the innumerable Ndwandwe groups and , as the groans and yells of the ...
... began , but presently in the rear of the outermost groups the horrible death - cries arose again . The Zulu killers mostly attached themselves to the tail end of the innumerable Ndwandwe groups and , as the groans and yells of the ...
Page 197
... began to retire across the ford in good order , under terrific pressure from the Jubingqwanga ( Shorn Head - ring ) regiment . Shaka could barely restrain his glee when he assessed the losses of the Ndwandwes in that initial clash ...
... began to retire across the ford in good order , under terrific pressure from the Jubingqwanga ( Shorn Head - ring ) regiment . Shaka could barely restrain his glee when he assessed the losses of the Ndwandwes in that initial clash ...
Page 297
... began to discount the ugly characteristics of their guardians , and somewhat hopefully began to imagine that kindly nature must assuredly have given them some compen- sating point . In selecting these ugliest specimens as guàrds , Shaka ...
... began to discount the ugly characteristics of their guardians , and somewhat hopefully began to imagine that kindly nature must assuredly have given them some compen- sating point . In selecting these ugliest specimens as guàrds , Shaka ...
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
Zululand and the Zulus in the late Eighteenth | 15 |
Birth and Exile | 25 |
Copyright | |
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