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 133
... reached the Ama - Yiwane Neck ( ' esi - kaleni sama Yiwane ' - a low ridge at the head of the Ama - Yiwane stream , two or three miles south of the present Ma - Hlabatini Magistracy ) . There word reached him from Donda , one of the ...
... reached the Ama - Yiwane Neck ( ' esi - kaleni sama Yiwane ' - a low ridge at the head of the Ama - Yiwane stream , two or three miles south of the present Ma - Hlabatini Magistracy ) . There word reached him from Donda , one of the ...
Page 157
... reached the foot of the hill seventy - five ranks in a column 200 yards along . Nomahlanjana was using a battering ram against two lines of Zulus , whom he expected to drive against the open maw of the southern semicircle . Shaka's eyes ...
... reached the foot of the hill seventy - five ranks in a column 200 yards along . Nomahlanjana was using a battering ram against two lines of Zulus , whom he expected to drive against the open maw of the southern semicircle . Shaka's eyes ...
Page 264
... reaching forward . All the councillors , and even Mbopa , Mgobozi and Mdlaka , felt a hypnotic terror stealing over ... reached Mbopa , whom she had never yet seen , her eyes gloated in unholy triumph . She chuckled , and cackled , and ...
... reaching forward . All the councillors , and even Mbopa , Mgobozi and Mdlaka , felt a hypnotic terror stealing over ... reached Mbopa , whom she had never yet seen , her eyes gloated in unholy triumph . She chuckled , and cackled , and ...
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
Zululand and the Zulus in the late Eighteenth | 15 |
Birth and Exile | 25 |
Copyright | |
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