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aim they sent out a considerable force in 1836, and 
attacking the Zulu at the foot of one of the hills, com¬ 
pletely defeated him. Moselikatze gathered together 
the little remnant of his force, including only forty 
“ ring-heads ” (full grown warriors), and quitted the 
district, making his way to the north, and laying waste 
the whole country as he proceeded. It was his plan to 
boer’s wife defending her wagon. 
found a new settlement on the other side of the Zam¬ 
besi ; but the tsetse-fly did what it seemed forbidden to 
human hand to do, and checked his career. He was in 
consequence obliged to fall back, and began to attack 
first the Makalaka villages, and then to carry his ravages 
on to the Manansas and others. His mode of dealing 
with these agricultural settlements was to set fire to 
them in the middle of the night, to kill the men as 
