NOTES ON THE EAST COAST P.ANTU OF EfGIITV YEARS AGO. 8/ 



But in 1824, in his letter to Lord Charles Somerset enclosing a 

 copy of a grant or sale to him of 



" Bubolongo or the Port and Harbour of Natal, together with the islands 

 therein and surrounding country as far inland as the nation Gowaqnewkos," 



Farewell speaks of Chaka uniformly as " King of the Zulus," 

 and never once uses the term " Hollentont." 



If we are to read for "Gowaqnewkos," " Gonaquas," then 

 if Chaka was not King of the Hottentots, he at all events claimed 

 sovereignty over all the intermediate territory occupied by Xosas, 

 Temhus, Pondos. etc. 



Captain Owen, in his report already quoted, gives the fol- 

 lowing information concerning the redoubtable Zulu tribe : — 



' Of the Vatwahs all we learn is that they are from the interior countries at 

 and beyond the source of the Mapoota in the south-west and the mountain west 

 of English River. They are a martial people of free air, noble carriage, being 

 marked by boring the lower pendant flaps of the ears, with very large holes, which 

 is done by no other tribe round Delagoa Bay." 



From what follows we find these remarks refer specially to 

 the branch of Abambo or Zulu known as the Endwandwe, wiho 

 were located between the Nkandhla forest and the present magis- 

 tracy of Ndwandwe on the sources of the Black and White Um- 

 volosi, and who alone, according to Fynn, were never, while 

 under their chief Zwide, subdued by the Zulu king. 



But we find in the " Narrative " that 

 " Chaka expelled his [Zwide's] uncle Soon Kundava [in the text erroneously 

 printed ' Loon Kundava '] and upwards of five thousand of his adherents ; who, 

 passing through Mapoota, Temby and MatoU, laid the whole country waste, even 

 threatening to destroy the Portuguese factory. The extraordinary part of this is 

 that the Portuguese claim the whole of this country, and yet trade with its enemy 

 the Zoolos." 



In his report of May, 1823 (already cited), Owen mentions 

 this Soongundava (as his name is here spelt) as being (also?) 

 the uncle of the present king Zeite (Zwide) of the Vatwahs 

 (Endwandwe), a minor at his father's death. Sogundaba, as 

 his name is perhaps more correctly spelt, 



" took the government until his nephew should come of age, but then, being un- 

 willing to resign, a war ensued and Zeite turned his uncle and all his adherents 

 out of the country to find another for themselves ; for two \ears these latter have 

 been more destructive than a swarm of locusts to all the countries between their 

 own and the sea, and being of a'more manly, bold race than the natives of those 

 countries, have entered every part as conquerors, and at length fixed themselves 

 at Mamalong and Manyess, about thirty miles from the Portuguese factory." 



King Zwide, after the succession of Sogundaba, did not 

 long live to claim his title invictus. Already weakened by the 

 secession of his bravest lieuteannt, Umsiligazi (Moselekatse) he 

 suffered a severe defeat from Tshaka in the Nkandhle forest. 

 After Zwide's death Fynn and Isaacs witnessed the rout and 

 flight of his successor Sikonyana and the scattering of his forces. 

 The fugitive chief took refuge, accompanied by the greater part 

 of his tribe, with Umsiligazi and his Matebele, as they were now 

 known. The remainder was absorbed in the Zulu forces. 



Meanwhile Sogundaba's warriors to the number of several 

 hundreds, were not long in coming into contact with Captain 

 Owen's survey party. They were led by a young chief called 



