CONTENTS. XI 



I'AOli 



CHAPTER XXXVI. 

 Night attack on the Marauders . . . . .266 



CHAPTER XXXYII. 



Excursion on Horseback iu quest of assistance, and meeting 



with the Emigrant Farmers . . . . .273 



CHAPTER XXXVIII. 



Return to Civilization, and arrival in the Cape Colony . 280 



CHAPTER XXXIX. 



Sketch of the Emigration of the Border Colonists . . 286 



CHAPTER XL. 



Emigration of the Border Colonists, concluded . . . 294 



CHAPTER XLI. 



Sketch of the Emigration resumed — treacherous massacre 

 of Retief and his party by Dingaan, King of the 

 Zooloos ......... 303 



CHAPTER XLII. 



Fall of Uys in an abortive invasion of the Zooloo territories. — 



Annihilation of the Natal Settlers. — Death of Maritz . 311 



CHAPTER XLIII. 



DemoHtion of the Zooloo nation — Convention with Dingaan ; 



and establishment of the Emigrants at Port Natal . 319 



Zoological Appendix .......* 333 



Proposal . . . . . . . . . .357 



