With this prodigious engine of war shaped
to his hand, he overran all the country from Delagoa Bay to the
Unzimvulu River and far into the interior, scourging its face
mercilessly. Some of the terrified tribes in his way were blotted out
comÂpletely. " There was a white mark from the Tugela to Thaba N'chu,
and that was our bones," said an old Hlubi to Theal, the historian of
South Africa. Sometimes stragglers escaped to lurk in mountain
recesses. These wretched survivors of the scourge were covered by one
new and pitiful name, Amafengu, because their first cry to strangers
was Fenguza, "we want." Only one tribe held Chaka in check, the
warlike Amaswazi, which stubÂbornly guarded their mountain paths and
cliffs. Even the fierce Amangwane were forced to fly before Chaka's
resistless impis ; but they kept massed together, and in their retreat
drove off or massacred most of the tribes between the Orange and the
Vaal rivers. Then the Amangwane, still hot pressed by the Zulus,
