SOVEREIGNTY OF DUTCH DECLARED. 349 
" There existing, however, no doubt as to his 
death, and the dispersion of all his army, the 
emigrant farmers assembled in great state on 
the banks of the Umvoloos, on the 14th Feb- 
ruary, 1840 ; and there, under the discharge of 
their guns, Andries Pretorius proclaimed Um- 
panda the sole and acknowledged King of the 
Zulus ; and by a proclamation issued by him, 
and attested by the other commandants, they 
declared their sovereignty to extend from the 
Umvoloos Umfana, or the Black Umvoloos, and 
the St. Lucia Bay, to the Umzimvooboo, or St. 
John's river : and in fact, by their proceedings 
of that day, assumed a certain authority, or 
sovereignty, over Umpanda himself, from whom 
they received, as their indemnity, 36,000 head 
of cattle, 14,000 of which, were delivered to 
those farmers who, residing beyond the Draaks- 
berg, had only come in as allies to their friends, 
and the remaining 22,000 (or rather, the sad 
remains of them, for very many were lost or 
stolen on the way) were brought to the foot 
of the Zwart Kop, near this town, where, at a 
spot still named the Deel Laager, * they were 
distributed among such farmers as belonged to 
this district, and had claims for losses sustained 
in the previous wars and engagements. 
" A few days before the emigrant farmers 
* " Anglice ;" camp for distributing or dividing. 
