. The true story book . s of Englishmen. Nearly six months passed before all the dead at Isandhlwanawere reverently buried. Strange were the scenes that those sawwhose task it was to lay them to their rest. Here, hidden by therank grass, in one heap behind the officers tents, lay the bodies ofsome seventy men, who had made their last stand at this spot;lower down the hill lay sixty more. Another band of about thesame strength evidently had taken refuge among the rocks of the 150 THE TALE OF ISANDHLWANA mountains, and defended themselves there till their ammunition wasexhausted, and their ring
. The true story book . s of Englishmen. Nearly six months passed before all the dead at Isandhlwanawere reverently buried. Strange were the scenes that those sawwhose task it was to lay them to their rest. Here, hidden by therank grass, in one heap behind the officers tents, lay the bodies ofsome seventy men, who had made their last stand at this spot;lower down the hill lay sixty more. Another band of about thesame strength evidently had taken refuge among the rocks of the 150 THE TALE OF ISANDHLWANA mountains, and defended themselves there till their ammunition wasexhausted, and their ring broken by the assegai. All about theplain lay Englishmen and Zulus, as they had died in the dreadstruggle:—here side by side, amidst rusted rifles and bent assegais,here their bony arms still locked in the last hug of death, andyonder the Zulu with the white mans bayonet through his skull,the soldier with the Zulus assegai in what had been his heart. Oneman was found, who, when his cartridges were spent, and his rifle. was broken, had defended himself to the end with a tent-hammer thatlay among his bones, and another was stretched beneath the precipice,from the crest of which he had been hurled. Well, they buried them where they were discovered, and therethey sleep soundly beneath the shadow of Isandhlwanas cliff. And now a few words more, and this true story will be conquered the Zulus at last, at a battle called Ulundi, where theyhurled themselves in vain upon the bullets and bayonets of the THE TALE OF ISANDHLWANA 151 British square. To the end they fought bravely for their king andcountry, and though they were savages, and, like all savages, cruelwhen at war, they were also gallant enemies, and deserve our king himself, Cetywayo, was hunted down, captured, and sent intocaptivity. Afterwards, there was what is called a popular movementon his behalf in England, and he was sent back to Zululand, withpermission to rule half the country. Meanwhile, afte
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