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began
to rub against the frontiersmen of Cape Colony. This inroad was bravely
met by a muster of a thousand soldiers and Boers under Lieutenant
Colonel Somerset, who finally put the Amangwane to utter route in a
sharp battle, August 27, 1828, near the banks of the Bashil River.1
Chaka
was a warrior capable of measuring the efficiency of the white man's
organization and firearms. When the Amangwane were thrown back, the
Zulu chief withdrew his own impis without risking a collision with the
whites. A few weeks later he was murdered by two of his half brothers
and his best-trusted attendant. Dingaan, his half brother, and one of
his assassins, grasped the headship of the Zulus, but his succession
was dis-
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puted
by the commander of one of the chief divisions of Chaka's army, the
unruly Matabele. This revolting chief, Umsilikazi, was the model of a
Zulu warrior, tall, sinewy, shapely, and, except in war dress, naked
save for a cord around his waist from which leopards' tails dangled. A
string of little blue beads was drawn about his sturdy neck, and three
green feathers of a paroquet were stuck in his crisp hair. His
followers were like him, and the wild charge of the legion of such men
armed 1 "South Africa," Theal. "Annals of Natal."
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