a great fighting race there are still thousands 

 them in the kraals of Zululand and Swaziland but 

 it was his fate to belong to one of the expelled families, 

 and to have to live and work among the white men 

 under the Boer Government of the Transvaal. 



In a fighting nation Jim's kraal was known as a 

 fighting one, and the turbulent blood that ran in 

 their veins could not settle down into a placid stream 

 merely because the Great White Queen had laid her 

 hand upon his people and said, " There shall be 

 peace ! " Chaka, the ' black Napoleon ' whose wars 

 had cost South Africa over a million lives, had died 

 murdered by his brother Dingaan full of glory, lord 

 and master wherever his impis could reach. " Dogs 

 whom I fed at my kraal ! " he gasped, as they stabbed 

 him. Dingaan his successor, as cruel as treacherous, 

 had been crushed by the gallant little band of 

 Boers under Potgieter for his fiendish massacre of 

 Piet Retief and his little band. Panda the third 

 of the three famous brothers Panda the peace- 

 ful had come and gone ! Ketshwayo, after years 

 of arrogant and unquestioned rule, had loosed 

 his straining impis at the people of the Great 

 White Queen. The awful day of 'Sandhlwana 

 where the 24th Regiment died almost to a man 

 and the fight on H'lobani Mountain had blooded 

 the impis to madness ; but Rorke's Drift and Kambula 

 had followed those bloody victories each within a 

 few hours to tell another tale ; and at Ulundi the 

 tides met the black and the white. And the kingdom 

 and might of the house of Chaka were no more. 

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