10 Recollections of Adventures 



taken with Gado-gado caught the "lung sick- 

 ness," and died wholesale, and my father's enemies 

 again accused him of appropriating the cattle 

 taken with the rebel tribe. I believe that this 

 unwarrantable animosity was due to the idea 

 that my father sympathized too much with the 

 Boers, who greatly respected and liked him. 



At another time, Nodada, a chief ruling in the 

 Umsinga location refused to deliver up a murderer 

 who had taken refuge with him. My father with 

 his interpreter, lomtye, went to Nodada's head kraal, 

 where a large number of the tribe were assembled, 

 and among them the murderer. Under tribal law 

 the chief is answerable for individuals of the tribe, 

 and it was his duty to send the murderer for trial to 

 the Magistracy when ordered. My father demanded 

 his immediate arrest, when Nodada refused, he held 

 his pistol to his head, took out his watch and gave 

 him five minutes to decide. Nodada immediately 

 called to his people to catch the man, which was 

 done, he then held his hand out and said to my 

 father, "You are not an old woman like some, you 

 are a man. I respect you and you will never have 

 trouble with me again," and he kept his word. 

 When the Basutos broke out some time afterwards 

 and my father was asked for a native contingent, 

 Nodada was the first to offer his assistance, and a 

 grand lot of fighting men they were in their war 

 dress, plumes and shields, each regiment carrying 

 differently marked oxhide shields. Four thousand 

 went to the front from the Klip River division, and 

 I was fascinated by their thundering war dance, 

 which they performed before my father, giving the 

 salute " Inkosi Bayete." 



During the early Zululand troubles I was sent 

 to Commandant Karl Landman, in the Biggarsberg, 



