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acquire the Delagoa Bay "Railroad, which has 

 been built from Lorenzo Marquez as far as the 

 hills bordering theXorthernTransvaal tc-rritory, 

 and is to be carried across these and extended 

 to Pretoria. The right of Portugal to the 

 country of the Maputos south of Delagoa Bay 

 having been established by arbitration, the 

 Queen of Araatongaland early in 1888 ac- 

 knowledged the sovereignty of the King of 

 Portugal over this part of her territory. The 

 Cape Parliament authorized the extension of 

 the railways from Colesberg to the Orange 

 river and from Kimberley to the Vaal river. 

 As soon as Parliament was prorogued, on Aug. 

 17, the Government called a special session to 

 reconsider the customs union tariff bill, and 

 both branches passed it, in order to avert a 

 Cabinet crisis. 



Zuloland. On May 14, 1887, Zulnland was 

 annexed to the British Empire by proclamation. 

 Mr. Osborn, the resident commissioner and 

 chief magistrate of the new possession under 

 Sir Arthur Havelock. gathered such of the 

 Zulus as would accept his invitation at Xkon- 

 jeni on July 7, where he hoisted the British 

 flag and read the proclamation. Usibepu, the 

 most powerful of the chiefs among whom the 

 British had partitioned the country after the 

 deposition of King Cetewayo, who had been 

 permitted to retain his territory in the north- 

 east on the king's restoration, was beaten by 

 the TTsutus, or Zulus, who were attached to the 

 dynasty, under Cetewayo's son, Dinizulu. and 

 was driven into the Zulu Reserve. After the 

 annexati'm, as soon as laws and regulations 

 had been made for the territory, the British 

 made preparations to restore their ally and his 

 followers to the lands from which they had 

 been expelled, but deferred their intention 

 when Dinizulu and Umyamyana made prepara- 

 tions to drive out the renegades again. Dini- 

 znlu retired into the Xew Republic, but came 

 back after vainly imploring the Boers to join 

 him in an attack on the British and their Zulu 

 allies, and became involved in a quarrel with 

 another chief. Both were summoned before 

 the special commissioner to have their differ- 

 ences settled. Dinizulu was at first contuma- 

 cious, but on Xov. 14. 1887, they both appeared 

 and were ordered each to pay a fine of cattle. 

 At the end of that month Csibepu and Sokwet- 

 yata, another chief who had fled into the Re- 

 serve, were restored. In January, 1888, Usibe- 

 pu attacked a kraal belonging to some of 

 Dinizulu's people, seized their cattle, and drove 

 the Usutus off the land. Dinizulu asrain went 

 to the New Republic to ask the assistance of 

 the Boers. While he was absent, in April, 

 some police who attempted to make arrests at 

 the kraal of Undabnko. his uncle, were forcibly 

 ejected. In May Dinizulu fell upon the chief 

 Humelane and recaptured stolen cattle. The 

 Zululand police, with an escort of dragoons, 

 proceeded to execute warrants of arrest against 

 him and other chiefs. Dinizulu and Undabuko 

 collected their followers at Ceza, in the ex- 



treme northwest, and compelled the British 

 force to retreat after sharp fighting, in June. 

 Zulus who were loyal to their king, Diniznlu, 

 then rose in rebellion in all parts of the coun- 

 try. Store-keepers in different parts of Zulu- 

 land were murdered, and natives who were 

 friendly to the English were plundered. On 

 June 23 the Csutus attacked Usibepu, who had 

 raised an impi at the call of Governor Havelock, 

 and routed his force inflicting heavy losses. 

 Usibepu fled, with the police at Ivuna, who 

 were also attacked. The English raised levies 

 of natives in Basutoland and the Reserve, and 

 sent them under European leaders to quell the 

 rebellion, while troops were moved forward 

 from Durban to the frontier, and from Cape 

 Town to Durban, and re-enforcements were 

 even sent from England and Egypt. Lieut.-Gen. 

 Smyth, commanding the British forces in South 

 Africa, went to Zululand to direct operations. 

 A body of troops, native levies, and police 

 advanced from Xkojeni against the Usutus 

 under a brother of Cetewayo named Tshing- 

 ana, at Hlopekulu, near White Umvolosi river, 

 and defeated'them, after six hours' fighting, on 

 July 2, losing two white officers and a large 

 number of natives. Usutu chiefs looted Sok- 

 wetyata's cattle and attacked the magistrate of 

 Inkhandla district. In the beginning of July 

 Somkeli and his vassals rose in the Umvolosi 

 district against Mr. Pretorius, the sub-commis- 

 sioner, and other chiefs on the coast near San 

 Lucia joined the rebellion. Before marching 

 npon Ceza, where Dinizula had been joined 

 by his loyal subjects from all parts of Zulu- 

 land, and had a force of 4,000 warriors, Gen. 

 Smith sent an expedition to the Umvolosi. 

 Somkeli surrendered voluntarily, and ordered 

 his under chiefs to desist from hostilities. 

 Other columns dispersed the minor insur- 



fent forces in the south and east of Zululand. 

 he general waited for levies of Zulus and 

 Basutos, but these never came except in small 

 numbers. Sir Arthur Havelock did not share 

 the current opinion as to Dinizulu's guilt, and 

 was anxious to save the Zulus from a war of 

 extermination, and hence arose the usual dif- 

 ferences between the civil and the military au- 

 thorities. The only considerable native force 

 that was raised was John Dunn's impi, num- 

 bering over 1.500 warriors, which took part in 

 the reduction of Somkeli near San Lucia. The 

 British forces, numbering about 2.000 British 

 regulars, besides police, Xatal volunteers, and 

 native levies, began to move on Ceza in the 

 early part of August, establishing military sta- 

 tions at various points. Dinizulu and Unda- 

 buko. whose followers had dwindled to 1,000 

 men through hunger and cold, fled into the 

 Transvaal. The Zulus several times attacked 

 the British posts and flying columns, and raided 

 the friendly natives in the Reserve. L'sibepu, 

 the prime mover of the troubles, was supported, 

 if not instigated, by the Xatal colonists and 

 officials, who have shown uniform hostility to 

 the royal family of Zululand, and a determina- 



