140 WANDERINGS AND MEMORIES 



the British camp at Isandhlwana and destroyed 

 it. I come to tell you this because it is true, but 

 it matters nothing, for the English army will soon 

 come and utterly destroy the Zulu army." 



There was complete silence, and the white men 

 were not molested. In a few hours native spies 

 came in and corroborated MacLeod's news, when 

 the king sent for him and said, " Mafu, you speak 

 the truth, and if it takes the whole Zulu army to 

 destroy an English camp — ^then the English army 

 will win." After this Ubandeni and the Swazis 

 fought loyally on our side, both in this war and 

 the subsequent Basuto rising. 



With natives of all kinds it is best to tell the 

 truth, for if MacLeod had acted on Lord Chelms- 

 ford's instructions, matters might have been greatly 

 complicated and the war prolonged. 



In the Basuto War it was MacLeod's Swazis 

 who surrounded Secukuni in a cave and captured 

 him, although the credit was erroneously given to 

 Colonel Ferreira. At the conclusion of hostilities 

 Sir Garnet Wolseley offered MacLeod the Governor- 

 ship of Zululand, but the offer was declined. 



In 1880 Arthur Neumann rejoined his brother 

 Charles, who had a farm near Maritzburg, and 

 during the first Boer War he went down to Swazi- 

 land to look after the fine herd of cattle he had 

 left there in charge of the king. To his disgust, 

 however, he found that the Boers had captured 

 and driven off the whole lot. 



Between the years 1880-1887 he travelled and 

 hunted on the Limpopo and Sabi Rivers, where he 

 shot many buffaloes, and in 1888 went north to 

 Mombasa to make inquiries as to the possibilities 



