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up the game they kill, or the viands they eat) 
made a determined resistance, and took the 
lives of several of their assailants, yet they soon 
fell, one after the other, under the overwhelm- 
ing pressure of the thousands by whom they 
were charged and beaten down ; and, after a 
desperate struggle of half an hour's duration, 
their expiring and mangled corpses were drag- 
ged out of the kraal, to an adjoining hillock, 
marked, and infamous as the "aceldama," or 
rather the "golgotha," where the bones of all 
victims to the fury of this despot were hoarded 
up, and became a prey to the wolves and vul- 
tures, 
"Dingaan, following the precept of Caesar, 
who deemed nothing done so long as anything 
remained undone, ordered instantly ten of his 
regiments to march into this territory, to at- 
tack all the emigrant farmers, (who, in perfect 
security, were spread all over the district, await- 
ing the return of their friends,) and exterminate 
them root and branch. It certainly is remark- 
able that the doubts which the majority had 
entertained as to the good faith of Dingaan, 
vanished so soon after the departure of Eetief 
and his party. The young men were enjoying 
the pleasures of the chase, and supplying their 
friends with the game that abounded, and the 
women, seemingly also unsuspicious, were only 
