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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TRANSLATION.
 

BOOK   OF   THE   DAY   WHEN   THE   BISHOP   OF   NATAL.
WENT   TO   THE   ZULÙ   COUNTRY.
 

I.   MAGEMA'S    STORY.
 

We set out from Ekukanyeni on (the first week-
day) Monday, in the afternoon. We trekked on,
and lay at the Umgeni on this side. At evening
the oxen, as they were being outspanned, went
away. The (people for carrying the reim) leaders
started off and sought for them a great deal, [but]
they did not come to find them ; they arrived in
the night, when we were now laid down ; they got
to lie down, because we too were already laid down»
In the morning they sought for them a great deal,
so that there passed a long time, they [the oxen]
not yet arriving ; afterwards they arrived. As soon
as they had arrived, they were inspanned ; but one
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