This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXIV. ZULU KINGS AND WARS. CHAKA, the most renowned of Zulu kings, not improperly called the "Bonaparte of South Africa," began to reign about the beginning of this century. His name awakens deep emotions in the native mind. As it is little more than fifty years since his death, there are ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXIV. ZULU KINGS AND WARS. CHAKA, the most renowned of Zulu kings, not improperly called the "Bonaparte of South Africa," began to reign about the beginning of this century. His name awakens deep emotions in the native mind. As it is little more than fifty years since his death, there are natives living who knew him personally, and they are never tired of rehearsing his mighty deeds. I have often heard them repeat with genuine delight a song which his warriors were accustomed to sing to his praise: -- Thou hast finished the nations. Where wilt thou go to battle now? Hey! where wilt thou go to battle now? Unlike other South African chiefs, he was in the habit of fighting in person at the head of his braves, and it is said he never fled before a foe or lost a battle. His name is regarded by the Zulus as sacred, and is never mentioned except to give solemnity to an oath or to nerve the warrior for battle. At the time of his death he had a standing army of thirty-six regiments. "In working out the scheme of his ambition he introduced some remarkable reforms into the art of barbarian warfare. Each regiment was distinguished from others by the color and pattern of their shields. His men were taught to wield the short assegai and shield in close personal combat, instead of putting their trust, as of old, in the long javelin hurled from afar; and the warrior who returned from the fight without assegai and shield in his hand, or who bore the mark of a wound on his back, did so to the forfeit of his life. His warriors were forbidden to marry, as domestic ties were thought to soften and enervate. But after a certain period of service old regiments were superannuated as veterans and furnished with wives, and new levies raised to take their...
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Illustrations, map, 305p. Original hardcover binding. dj. 22 cm. Reprint, limited to 1000 numbered copies, of the 1891 edition of this 19th century American missionary's account of his experiences in Natal.
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Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 0x0x0; Limited edition No. 114 of 1000 copies. Publication of 305 pages. The jacket is slightly shelf rubbed, but tidy overall. The boards are edge rubbed with lightly knocked corners. The binding is secure. Old cello tape marks on the end papers. Little spotting throughout, not affecting text. No inscriptions or annotations. Protected in cellophane. (r*27/11/2023 JHK. )
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Good. No Jacket. 305 pages (complete). Facsimile reprint of 1891 edition published by Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing Society of Boston and Chicago. Numbered 34 of a limited deluxe edition of 50 copies. Half-leather. Mock-leather boards. Gilt stamped titling and decoration. The leathered corners and spine have wear, scuffing. The spine has some cracking to the leather. The front leather edging about the spine has a storage mark. At some stage the book has been subjected to damp conditions. The boards are consequently a little warped. The inside front and end papers have damp marks. The boards are nonetheless clubbable and attractive. Within, the frontispapers have previous owner markings. The contents have been just a wee bit 'bent' by the damp. They are however, clean, clear, confident, benevolent, patrician, bold, certain. fk.
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