CHAP. XXI. 
THE GRAND BATTUE, 
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—royal salutes, parade of troops, addresses presented, 
and no end of excitement. Here His Royal Highness 
halted on the 4th ; and there was a great assemblage 
of Zulus, under Mr. Shepstone, the Secretary for 
Native Affairs, to pay their homage to England’s 
Royal son, and to perform a war-dance in honour of 
the visit. 
ZULU WAR DANCE. 
This dance was very novel and exciting to look 
upon. Some thousands of Zulus were assembled in their 
war-plumes, with their shields, assaigais, stabbing- 
spears and battleaxes. These warriors generally form 
in mass in the shape of a crescent with the horns thrown 
forward ; they appear to form a complete solid wall, 
from the shields, which are about five feet high and two 
