ZULUS

are a branch of the Bantu family, of which they are the finest and the bravest, physically and mentally. They are very free from all kinds of immorality, and very seldom harbour revenge against one another. Their constitution is definitely democratic, and their legal code—though unwritten—is very complete and universally known. They were practically consolidated into a nation at the beginning of this century by Pheir great chief Tshaka, who conquered the whole of Africa from the Zambesi to Cape Colony. Cetewayo succeeded to the chieftainship in 1874, and annihilated a column of the British army at Isandula on January 22, 1879, but—after Rorke’s Drift—was himself beaten at Ulundi. He died in 1884, and Zululand was annexed by the British in 1887.