-112 A METEORITE FROM ZULULAND. 



saw stones flying all around me. and I threw myself down on my 

 face in a great fright. I did not know what was happening, 

 and thought that it was a visitation from Almighty God. At 

 last I got up and attempted to run, but my strength failed, and 

 I fell down again. I got up and staggered home, and told the 

 people at home. The thing that struck the ground struck it 

 wathin about five yards of where I was. 



I have never been back near the spot, as I am too frightened 

 to do so. I cannot say anything more as T was in too great a 

 fright. The noise was deafening, and it seemed as though the 

 whole hillside was tottering and falling. I did not even see the 

 thing that struck the ground ; I was too frightened to go and 

 look at it. 



Dedisa — her X mark. 



Read over, etc., etc. 

 A]')peared : j\Jatanjana ka Mpunzi. Chief Ngwoni. 



States : 



I live between the Mlambomunzo and Xsunguza streams, 

 tributaries to the Buffalo River^ in Nqutu district, quite near the 

 boundary between that and N'kandhla district. I was away at 

 the Umhlatuzi on the day that the meteorite was seen. T heard 

 a great noise like a cannon being fired, and on looking up into 

 the sky, I saw what aj^i^eared to be a spiral column of smoke 

 following a round looking object. It appeared to come from 

 South-\Vest to North-East, but I am not sure of the direction. 

 It was about a week later that I returned home, and I then 

 heard that something had fallen near where my wife was cutting 

 grass. I then went to look at the spot, and found that a hole 

 had been made in the ground about a yard across and two feet 

 deep. -Ml the stones there were smash'^d to pieces and scat- 

 tered all around. 



The boys Sihau and Mahoyana tell me that they went at 

 once to see it, when they heard my wife's story. They say it 

 was a lump somewhat resembling lead. It had rebounded out 

 of the hole a few yards. 



INIatanyana— his X mark. 

 Read over, etc., etc. 



Statement of Zacaria Dhladhla. Xative catechist at Oudeni, 

 in regard to the meteorite which fell at Qudeni on the ist 

 August, 1912. 



" The meteorite struck a hard, blue, whinstone boulder about 

 two feet in diameter fair in the centre I should say, and crushed 

 this into dust and small fragments, there being very few pieces 

 left of it bigger than two inches square. 



The depression in the ground was about tn-o feet in diameter 

 and about nine inches deep, and concussion so great as to loosen 

 the boulders in the neighlbourhood for distance of about fifteen 

 feet radius, and several of these in the close proximity of_ the 

 impact, jumped out of their places and rolled down the hill a 

 little distance. 



