Three native accounts of the visit of the Bishop of Natal in September and October 1859 to Umpande King of the Zulus;

(Pietermaritzburg :  Vause, Slatter. & Co.,  1901.)

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NOTES.
 

N.B. The numbers within brackets ( ) refer,
as before, to the Bishop of Natal's smaller Gram¬
mar, ' First Steps in Zulù Kafir.'
 

Page I., Line 2. yamuhla (74).

3. hambela (213, 361,). kwa'Zulu, to the Zulù Country ;
uZulu was the great ancestor of the tribe ; hence they are called
collectively by his name (36) as a single person = the Zulù.

N.B. Kwa is used with a singular noun (92) to express
the place of, that is, the place occupied by the people under,
the person referred to (92) : hence we have kwa'Zulu, the
place of the Zulù = Zululand, the Zulù Country.

5.   ekuKanyeni (71).    wokuqala (181).

6.   saya (345).    emGeni (67).

7.   kwati (291'. zati zisakunyulwa (300, 270), they were
stili being outspanned.

8.   bokupat'intambo (^57, 81).    b'esuka (201).

9.   abaze bazitola, they came not (333) to find them = they
never found them ; abaze for abaza (284), which is the Neg.
Past of za.

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