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 200
... received double the rewards of ordinary warriors . Captains twice as much again . Regimental commanders received very liberal rewards , according to merit , and the same applied to other high - ranking officers . Mzilikazi , Mdlaka and ...
... received double the rewards of ordinary warriors . Captains twice as much again . Regimental commanders received very liberal rewards , according to merit , and the same applied to other high - ranking officers . Mzilikazi , Mdlaka and ...
Page 225
... received enough of the former to cause death , which would be fairly quick , but more often succumbed to the latter ... receiving line , which would be the only stretch in which game would be allowed to cross . The driving line , twenty ...
... received enough of the former to cause death , which would be fairly quick , but more often succumbed to the latter ... receiving line , which would be the only stretch in which game would be allowed to cross . The driving line , twenty ...
Page 352
... received by the British , and an account , grossly exaggerated , of their depre- dations in Kaffraria . It may have been this which caused Major Cloete's curious behaviour to the Zulu embassy . Although alarmed , the British were slow ...
... received by the British , and an account , grossly exaggerated , of their depre- dations in Kaffraria . It may have been this which caused Major Cloete's curious behaviour to the Zulu embassy . Although alarmed , the British were slow ...
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
Zululand and the Zulus in the late Eighteenth | 15 |
Birth and Exile | 25 |
Copyright | |
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