CHAPTER XXVI

I proceed with the column under Colonel Spreckley's command for Shiloh—A bad time for the horses—I find the bodies of three Zambesi boys at Stuart's mining camp—Account of the murders—A fort built on the site of the old police camp—March for the Queen's Mine—Part of the column sent on to Inyati—Bodies of six murdered men found—Narrow escape of Mr. Rees and his family—Church and mission houses at Inyati burnt down by the Matabele—Column move to Fynn's farm—Patrol fall in with a large body of Kafirs—Council of war decides to endeavour to drive rebels from their position—Kafirs decamp during the night—A faithful servant—Kafirs disheartened but afraid to surrender—Large amount of grain captured—Return to Bulawayo—News of the rising in Mashunaland—A force sent to Eastern Rhodesia—The prophetess "Salugazana"—Umlimos responsible for the outbreak in Mashunaland—Loot the object of the Mashunas—Captain Laing arrives at Bulawayo—His successful engagements with the rebels—Matibi's valuable assistance—Loyalty of Chibi and Chilimanzi—The Bulawayo Field Force disbanded—Lord Grey's address to the members of the Bulawayo Field Force.

Owing to the delay caused by the attack on and pursuit of the impi from the Umguza, as I have just narrated, Colonel Spreckley's patrol did not leave Bulawayo for Shiloh until the afternoon of the following day, Sunday, 7th June. This patrol comprised about 330 white men, about half of whom were mounted, 100 Colonial Boys, and 100 Friendly Matabele—over 500 men altogether.

As we did not proceed along the main road, but first took a branch track to the old Imbezu kraal, and then followed the course of the Kotki river until we struck the main road, we did not reach the site of the old police camp near Shiloh mission station until Thursday, 11th June. Up to this time we had not seen a single native, whilst all the kraals we passed had been long deserted and all stores of grain removed, so that our horses and mules, having to depend entirely on the dry scanty grass for their sustenance, lost condition rapidly.

One day we outspanned close to a miner's camp, which was situated on a rise above the Kotki river, and as I was field officer for the day and had to post the videttes, I placed two of them on the site of the mining camp. Here we found the dead bodies of three natives, who proved to be Zambesi boys who had been working at the mine at the time when the rebellion broke out. On inquiry I found that this camp had belonged to an American miner named Jack Stuart—a lieutenant in Grey's Scouts—from whom I learned, that on hearing rumours towards the end of March that a native rising was imminent, he and his partner had gone in to Bulawayo to ascertain if there was any truth in the report. Six Zambesi boys were left working in the shaft, which had been sunk on a reef just alongside of the camp, and two days later one of these boys came to town and reported that on the previous evening a party of Matabele had visited the mine, and forthwith proceeded to murder all the Zambesi boys they found there. He himself, he said, had managed to escape by running, but he thought that all his companions had been killed. A few days later, however, another of these boys turned up who had been very badly wounded and left for dead by the Matabele.

It appears that, on seeing two of his friends attacked, this boy had made a bolt for it, but was overtaken and knocked down by a heavy blow on the back of the head from a knob-kerry. He fell on his face stunned, and was then stabbed in the back with an assegai, the weapon being driven clean through him, and then twice nearly but not quite withdrawn from the wound, and again driven through him, so that, although there was only one wound on his back, there were three in front, where the point of the assegai had come through, just below his breast-bone, and his right lung must have been punctured in three different places. This boy would seem to have lain a day and a night, insensible, where he fell, but on regaining consciousness had found strength enough to walk to Bulawayo, some twenty miles distant from the mining camp where he had been knocked down, assegaied, and left for dead.

On his arrival in town he was at once taken to the hospital, and, owing to the kind nursing and skilful treatment which he received there, he in a few weeks' time completely recovered, and although he still bears the scars of the wounds which he received, his general health appears to be as good as ever it was.

On Friday, 12th June, the day after our arrival on the site of the old police camp, a fort was built, and here Native Commissioner Lanning was left in charge with a garrison of about seventy white men and twenty Friendly Matabele and a stock of provisions sufficient to last for two months.

On the following morning we struck across country towards the Queen's Mine, a property belonging to Willoughby's Consolidated Company. That night we slept on the way there, and the fresh tracks of Kafirs and cattle having been seen late in the afternoon, a patrol was sent after them very early the next morning, the column shortly afterwards getting under way and arriving at the mining camp at about eight o'clock.

Here it was found that although a good deal of property had been destroyed by the Kafirs, but little damage had been done to the machinery and pumping gear, the savages probably not having recognised its value nor been sufficiently energetic to give themselves the trouble of smashing it up. Another short trek in the afternoon brought us to the ford of the Impembisi river, on the main road between Bulawayo and the mission station of Inyati. Here the patrol which had left us in the early morning under Captain Gradwell rejoined us just at dusk, having been unsuccessful in coming up with any Kafirs or cattle, all of whom seemed to have gone down the Impembisi river.

As the mules and horses were now getting into very low condition, it was determined not to take the whole column on to Inyati, but only to send on the contingent who were to remain in garrison there under the command of Lieutenant Banks-Wright, together with another 100 men who were to return to the main column as soon as the fort was in a fair way towards completion. This force was accompanied by four waggons carrying provisions and other necessaries for the garrison of the fort, and the Rev. Mr. Rees also went with it, in order to bury the remains of the six white men who had been murdered near the police camp of Inyati on 27th March.

Five of these bodies were found lying on the roadside near together, about a mile on this side of the police camp, while the sixth was discovered near the camp itself. The corpses had been partially mummified by the dryness of the atmosphere, and were all quite recognisable. Mr. Graham, the native commissioner, and his four companions had evidently been attacked by a large force of Kafirs soon after they had left the police station, and were killed whilst defending the waggon on which they were travelling to Bulawayo. In addition to their bodies the remains of two Colonial Boys were also found who had been murdered at the same time as their white masters.

That Mr. Graham and his companions had made a good fight of it, and sold their lives dearly, was evident from the number of empty cartridge-cases which were found on the ground round their dead bodies, Lieutenant Howard having picked up and counted eighty-five. As, however, the Matabele had removed their dead, it is quite impossible to say what loss they had suffered. The murdered men were all buried with military honours in the cemetery near the old mission station by Mr. Rees. This gentleman himself, with his wife and family, must have had a very narrow escape, as they only left the mission station on the 26th March, the day before Mr. Graham and his companions were attacked and killed; and they must too have only just passed through the Elibaini Hills on their way to Bulawayo before the rebels collected there. Both mission houses at Inyati were found to have been burnt down and destroyed, as well as the church, in which it was evident that large quantities of wood had been piled up in order to set light to the heavy beams supporting the roof. The natives had also taken the trouble to chop down fruit trees and ornamental shrubs growing round the mission houses, and had evidently done their best, not only to rid themselves of the presence of all white men in the country, but also to destroy as far as possible all traces of their ever having been there.

On Wednesday morning the men who had been sent to assist in building the fort at Inyati returned to the Impembisi, and in the afternoon the whole column moved some four miles up the river to Mr. Fynn's farm. On the morning of the same day Lieutenant Mullins—Mr. Colenbrander's brother-in-law—had been sent on to this point with some fifty Colonial Boys to look for grain, and had come across a considerable number of armed Kafirs in a very broken, densely-wooded piece of country, just to the east of the Impembisi river. As it was impossible for Lieutenant Mullins to tell the numbers of the rebels in the broken country, he retired with his Colonial Boys to the top of a single hill to the west of the river, and sent back to camp for reinforcements. Captain Grey was at once sent on with his Scouts, and the whole column followed more leisurely, arriving at Fynn's farm just before sundown.

Captain Grey had seen a considerable number of natives, evidently watching his men from the tops of different kopjes, but as the country they were in was altogether impracticable for horses, he was unable to attack them, and they on their side showed no disposition to come out of the hills. At a council of war that evening it was determined to endeavour to clear the hills in the morning with as large a force of footmen as could be spared from the laager; Grey's Scouts at the same time being sent round at the back of the hills in order to cut off any Kafirs who might be driven out of them into the level country beyond. The general impression in camp was that the Kafirs were in force, and that we should have all our work cut out to drive them out of their positions. And so we should have had, if they had only remained to dispute our advance. However, leaving the laager on the following morning just as day was breaking, we entered the hills at sunrise, and went right through them without seeing a sign of the rebels, who we found had decamped during the night and fled to what they considered a more secure stronghold—to wit, the "Intabas a Mambo," a sort of miniature Matopos some twenty miles farther eastward.

To this fastness it was not possible for Colonel Spreckley to follow them, so, as we met no other natives during our farther progress up the river to Mr. Arthur Rhodes' homestead, nor on our return journey from there to Bulawayo, we had absolutely no fighting during the whole trip.

Curiously enough, the temporary huts in which Mr. Fynn had been living before the outbreak of the insurrection had not been burnt, and on going up to a kraal some few miles higher up the river, where had dwelt a native to whom he had entrusted some Merino sheep, pigs, and a number of very handsome black Spanish fowls, Mr. Fynn found the fowls and pigs still there and in very good condition, and on making a closer examination observed fresh Kafir footprints, and therefore came to the conclusion that the man he had left in charge of his live stock was still looking after it, retiring into the hills by day and feeding his master's pigs and fowls by night. Mr. Fynn therefore asked Colonel Spreckley to allow him to take two friends that evening, and return to the kraal in the hope of being able to intercept his servant, and bring him down to the camp.

The plan succeeded perfectly, for just after dusk the man came along the footpath leading from the river to the kraal, and was suddenly confronted by Mr. Fynn, who had been waiting for him concealed behind a bush. The Kafir was at first very much taken aback, but when he recognised his master, he burst out laughing and said: "Why, is it you, Willy? you've caught me now." This man was a native of Delagoa Bay, and being lame had been able to escape being forced into taking part in the rebellion, and ever since the outbreak had been able to surreptitiously look after a portion of his master's property, for though the Merino sheep had been driven off to the "Intabas a Mambo," the pigs and fowls had been left, and these the faithful servant had fed and watered regularly every night.

He was able to give us a great deal of useful information, and told us that the men who had been seen the day before amongst the hills on the other side of the Impembisi river were a portion of the impi which had suffered so heavily at the Umguza, on Saturday, 6th June. He informed us that they were thoroughly disheartened, and wished to surrender, but were afraid to do so, knowing that they had made the white men very angry by murdering their women and children. He gave the names of thirteen headmen of kraals who had been killed on that fatal day, all of whom had been personally known to Mr. Fynn, as they had been one and all living on Mr. Arthur Rhodes' block of farms before the rebellion broke out.

The next three days were spent in collecting grain, an immense amount being found stored in all the kraals on Mr. Arthur Rhodes' farms. In almost every kraal was found something or other which had been taken from his homestead, which had evidently been completely looted before it was burnt down. Several hundred head of cattle were also recovered which had been stolen from Mr. Rhodes, but the rinderpest was amongst them and they died by the score every day. As it was very important to get as much corn as possible to Bulawayo for the use of the horses and mules stabled there, and it could not be all carried in at once on the waggons at Colonel Spreckley's disposal, a large amount was stored in a kraal near Mr. Fynn's dwelling-house, and Captain Robinson with fifty men and some Friendly Matabele left in charge of it until it could be sent for.

When this matter had been arranged, the column moved up to Mr. Arthur Rhodes' desolated homestead, which was reached at mid-day on Sunday, 21st June, and leaving again the same evening arrived in Bulawayo two days later after an absence of seventeen days.

On our arrival in town we heard for the first time of the insurrection which had broken out in Mashunaland, and learned the sad news that many settlers had been murdered in the outlying districts of the country. Colonel Beal was at this time already on his way back to Salisbury with the entire force under his command, and two days after our return to Bulawayo sixty more mounted men of Grey's Scouts and Gifford's Horse, under the command of Captain the Hon. C. White, were despatched to the assistance of their fellow-colonists in Eastern Rhodesia.

When the secret history of the rebellion in Mashunaland comes to be known, I fancy it will be found that it was brought about by the leaders of the Matabele insurrection through the instrumentality of the Umlimos or prophets, who exist amongst all the tribes in Mashunaland, where they are known as "Mondoros," _i.e._ "Lions." In the district to the north-west of Salisbury there lives a prophetess known as "Salugazana," whose magical powers were apparently believed in by Lo Bengula, as he was in the habit of sending messengers to consult with her.

Now, we know that messages have been sent to this wise woman either by the leaders of the Matabele or the agents of one of the Umlimos or priests during the present rebellion, and I think that she was in all probability informed that the white men had all been killed in Matabeleland, including the column under Colonel Beal, and asked to disseminate this news amongst all the members of the priestly families throughout the country, bidding them at the same time to call upon the people to destroy the few surviving white men still left alive in the eastern province of Rhodesia.

As for the rising in Mashunaland proving that the natives of that country have been very cruelly treated by the whites, as Mr. Labouchere has asserted, it really demonstrates nothing of the kind; it only shows that the Mashunas imagined that they would be able to possess themselves of a vast amount of valuable loot with little danger to themselves, and no fear of punishment. The kindness or otherwise of the government of the whites would not be likely to weigh with them one way or the other, given the belief in their own power to kill the whites and take possession of their property without fear of retribution.

That is the crux of the whole question; for no one who has lived long amongst the various peoples generically known as Mashunas, whose principal characteristics are avarice, cowardice, and a complete callousness to the sufferings of others, will be inclined to doubt that were they governed by an angel from heaven, they would infallibly kill that angel, if his wing feathers were of any value to them, provided that they believed at the same time that the crime might be committed with impunity.

Towards the end of June Captain Laing arrived in Bulawayo in command of the relief forces which had been sent to him from Tuli and Victoria, Lieutenant Stoddart being left in command of the laager at Belingwe. On his way to Bulawayo, Captain Laing had had several successful engagements with the tribes in rebellion living between Belingwe and Filibusi, who are all Mashunas, with a small number of Matabele living amongst them; these latter having been the ringleaders of the rebellion in this part of the country. Captain Laing received very valuable assistance from Matibi, a Mashuna chief living near the Bubyi river, who sent several hundred of his men to accompany him on his march to Bulawayo. These men did good service and fought well when supported by white men. They accompanied the column as far as the Umzingwani river, twenty-five miles from Bulawayo, returning home from this point loaded up with loot of all kinds which they had taken from their rebel countrymen.

Besides Matibi, it is worthy of remark that Chibi and Chilimanzi, the two most important chiefs in the district between Belingwe and Victoria, have both not only held aloof from the present rebellion, but have given active assistance to the whites since the outbreak of hostilities, whilst Gutu's people—the Zinjanja—have also remained loyal to the Government.

I have now, I think, given a fairly comprehensive history of the late insurrection in Matabeleland up to the time when, relief forces having arrived in the country, it was deemed expedient to disband the volunteer troops which had been originally raised to suppress the rebellion, and I will therefore leave to abler and more accustomed pens than mine the task of describing all the subsequent incidents of a campaign which we will hope is now fast drawing to an end. I will only say that no one appreciates more than myself the excessive difficulties that have been encountered in dislodging the rebels from such fastnesses as the Intabas a Mambo and the Matopo Hills, or recognises more fully the brave work which has been done under the guidance of Major-General Sir Frederick Carrington, by Colonel Plumer, Major Baden Powell, and all the officers and men under their command.

The Bulawayo Field Force was not actually disbanded until Saturday, 4th July, upon which occasion the assembled troops were addressed by Lord Grey after they had been first inspected by Major-General Sir Frederick Carrington. The Administrator concluded his address to the members of the force in the following words:—"All of you have acquitted yourselves as brave men, and I would particularly commend the conduct of Colonel Napier, who throughout the campaign has performed his very arduous duties so satisfactorily. But mingled with our enjoyment there must be some pain in looking back upon many of the episodes of this rebellion. The Company has done its best to look after your comfort, but you have undergone notwithstanding some severe hardships, which, however, you have borne like men; and the only complaint I have heard is that you were not always able to go out against the enemy, but had to perform as well the hard and monotonous work of laager and fort duty. Many of you have a Matabele memento in the shape of a wound, the mark of which you will carry to your graves. Many too have lost friends; and possibly none of us realise the loss of life which has taken place both before and during hostilities; for our losses have been heavy, and form a large percentage of the total number of people who were engaged in the exploitation of the country. I cannot refer to individual cases of bravery where all have done so well, but I would again especially mention Colonel Napier's services to the country. He has exhibited remarkable tact and judgment, and has freely given great assistance to the Government. I regret that he is to-day retiring from the service, but I hope that he will continue to give us the benefit of his experience. I do not like to mention any particular troop, as each has acted so creditably, but I would note the excellent services rendered by the Africander Corps in this war, as showing the whole world the complete brotherhood which exists between the two races of Dutchmen and Britons in Rhodesia. I trust that an Africander troop will again form part of the new force which is now being raised by the Government. Information reached this country by last mail that Her Majesty has been pleased to allow a medal to be worn for the last Matabele war, and I shall represent strongly to Her Majesty that the same honour ought to be conferred on the members of the Bulawayo Field Force. You have as much right and title to the distinction as those who fought in the first war, and I hope there will be a sufficient number struck for both those who fought in the first war and those who have fought during the present rebellion. I thank you for your assistance in the past, and I hope you will remain in the country to witness the prosperity which is certain to come."

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And now, Lord Grey's speech to the members of the Bulawayo Field Force having formed the closing scene in the history of the corps, whose deeds in the cause of civilisation, and for the preservation of British supremacy in Rhodesia, it has been my endeavour to describe in the foregoing pages, it only remains for me to bid adieu to my readers, and to hope that the intrinsic interest of the scenes I have attempted to describe in very plain and homely fashion may be sufficient to atone for the deficiencies which will doubtless be only too apparent in my literary style.

SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTER

CONTAINING A FEW THOUGHTS AND OPINIONS UPON MATTERS RHODESIAN AND SOUTH AFRICAN

No one, I think, who has carefully read the little history which I have just brought to a close, can fail to have been struck by the conspicuous part which has been played by the Dutch settlers in Matabeleland in the recent struggle for supremacy between the white invaders of that country and the native black races; and it will probably come as a surprise to many to find that the Boer element is so strong as it is in Rhodesia, for that country has always been considered more exclusively British as regards its white population than any other State in South Africa, not except Natal and the Eastern Province of the Cape Colony, both of which territories, though almost purely British in the large towns, yet possess a large Boer population in the farming districts, whose ancestors were living on the land before the arrival of the British colonists.

But, in the opening up and colonisation of Rhodesia by means of the pioneer expedition of the British South Africa Company, which took possession of Eastern Mashunaland in 1890, a new departure was made in South African history, for the British became the pioneers instead of the Dutch, and a British colony was established in the far interior of the country many hundred miles to the north of the most northerly Dutch state; and it is the fact that the occupation of Mashunaland in 1890 and the invasion and conquest of Matabeleland in 1893 were purely British enterprises, which has, I think, created the belief generally held in England that Rhodesia at the present day is a purely British colony. Yet this is not the case, for within the British state there are two Boer colonies, the one of which has been established subsequent to the Matabele war in the country to the south of Fort Charter, whilst the other has occupied the hills and valleys of Gazaland since the latter part of 1891. Besides these agricultural colonies, where a number of contiguous farms are occupied by Boers who have settled on the land with their wives and families, there are many other Boer farmers scattered throughout Rhodesia, whilst up to the time when the rinderpest destroyed all their cattle, a large number of Dutchmen were constantly present in the country, earning their living with their waggons and oxen as carriers from one district to another.

When the rebellion broke out, Commandant Van Rensberg at once formed an Africander Corps, the great majority of whose members were Boers, although it numbered in its ranks a certain proportion of colonists of British blood, and it is a matter of history that these Dutchmen under Commandant Van Rensberg and Captains Van Niekerk and Pittendrigh have done splendid service during the recent insurrection in Matabeleland, and have fought side by side with Grey's Scouts and Gifford's Horse, and all the other troops of the Bulawayo Field Force, in a way which has won for them the admiration and respect of their brothers in arms and fellow-colonists of British blood; and that the mutual esteem and good fellowship engendered between the two races during the recent time of common peril may be fostered and maintained in the coming years ought not only to be the earnest desire of all thinking men, but should be also one of the main objects constantly kept in view by the English Administrator of these territories.

Many years ago, at a time when the scheme for the colonisation of the high and healthy plateaus lying between the Limpopo and the Zambesi had not yet assumed definite shape in the fertile brain of Mr. Cecil Rhodes, I remember writing in the course of an article, published, I think, in the _Fortnightly Review_, that those territories were in my opinion the natural heritage of the British and Dutch colonists in the older states of South Africa. My forecast was true enough, for although in its first inception the colonisation of Rhodesia was a purely British enterprise, yet to-day, in less than six years from the date when the Union Jack was hoisted at Fort Salisbury and the country proclaimed to be a province of Britain, it already numbers amongst its inhabitants a very considerable number of Dutch Boers, who form an element of the population, which in all South African history has been found indispensable for the gradual conversion of vast uncultured wastes into civilised states.

Now I might, I think, have gone further, and said that the whole of temperate South Africa (in which must be included the high plateaus lying between the Limpopo and the Zambesi) was the joint possession of the British and Dutch races; for in all the states of that country, the old and the new alike, we find the two races living side by side, whilst, curiously enough, in the British province of the Cape Colony the Dutch outnumber the British, and in the Boer State of the Transvaal the British outnumber the Dutch.

Throughout South Africa the Dutch live away from the towns on their farms, and, speaking generally, form the agricultural and pastoral population of the country. They are naturally a kindly, hospitable race; but as the inevitable result of their surroundings and the circumstances in which they have lived for generations, they are for the most part very poorly educated, and therefore ignorant, unprogressive and bigoted; whilst among the descendants of the "voor-trekkers," who some forty years ago abandoned their farms in the Cape Colony and fled, with their wives and their children, their flocks and their herds, into the unknown interior beyond the great Orange River, in order to escape from what they considered the injustice of British rule, there exists an ingrained hatred and distrust, not of the individual Englishman, but of the government of the country under whose flag they believe their fathers suffered wrong, and it is this sentiment which at the present moment, unfortunately, is being used as a political lever, which threatens nothing but disaster to the whole of South Africa, by the anti-British, but non-Boer adventurers, who are fighting for their own hands in Pretoria.

The recent deplorable invasion of Transvaal territory by a British force in defiance of all international law, to accomplish I still fail to understand what, has naturally exasperated the Dutch of the Transvaal, and caused them to look upon everything British with more distrust and suspicion than ever; but the history of that disastrous expedition, evoking as it did the most intense national sentiment, not only amongst the Boers of the Transvaal, but also in a somewhat milder degree perhaps, though still in a most pronounced manner, amongst their compatriots in the Orange Free State, coupled with the very notorious fact that in the exclusively Dutch districts both of the Cape Colony and Natal a very strong anti-British feeling was excited, must have convinced even the most infatuated that a conflict between Dutchmen and Englishmen, in whatever portion of South Africa it may arise, will be but the prelude to a war between the two races throughout every province from Cape Agulhas to the Zambesi—a war which would retard the general progress of the country for a generation, which would be infinitely disastrous to both races engaged in the struggle, and yet could be beneficial to neither, no matter which proved victorious.

In future let us hope that neither young military aspirants to fame, who, being ignorant of everything concerning South Africa, would yet climb their way to glory over the dead bodies of British and Dutch South Africans with the most light-hearted carelessness, just in the way of their professional business, nor cold-hearted self-seeking foreign politicians, who would use the ignorance and prejudice of the Boer to assist them in gratifying their jealous hatred of England, will be allowed to sway the councils of the statesmen, British or Boer, on whose decree the fate of South Africa really depends.

Not being a politician nor anything else but a wandering Englishman with a taste for natural history and sport, it may be held most presumptuous on my part to have written as I have done; but yet I have the most profound conviction that a war between the Boers and British in South Africa can only be a calamity of incalculable dimensions to both races; whilst the name of that statesman, whether Boer or Briton, who should without just cause on the one hand "cry havoc and let loose the dogs of war," or on the other compel the slipping of such dogs by fatuous obstinacy, and a cynical disregard for all the principles of enlightened government, will be assuredly held in execration by unborn generations of Boers and Britons alike. Neither race can get away from or do away with the other, and therefore both must try and rub off their mutual prejudices, and live harmoniously together.

This is not difficult in a new country like Rhodesia, where the representatives of the two peoples are in the nature of things thrown much together, and where there has always been a good understanding between them, which has of late been very much strengthened by the mutual assistance given by each to the other during the recent troublous times; and the fact that in these territories a very good understanding prevails between the Dutch and British gives one reason to hope that in time a similar state of things may be attained in the Transvaal, although unfortunately in that State there are several factors which militate against such a result being speedily arrived at.

In the first place, the great mass of the European population in the Transvaal, the greater part of which is British, resides in one great city, where it leads its own life, and does not come in contact with the Dutch farming population, of which it knows neither the language nor the history, and with whose modes of thought and manner of life it is altogether out of sympathy; whilst, on the other hand, the rough Boer, in too many cases, despises the ultra-civilised, sharp-witted, faultlessly-dressed European, and does not recognise that many amongst them are fine fellows and good sportsmen, and are capable of throwing off their coats and doing a day's work, hunting or fighting, with the roughest Boer amongst them, should occasion serve.

And yet these mutual prejudices and misunderstandings between the two peoples might easily be rubbed away if it were not for the presence of an anti-British clique of Hollanders and Germans in Pretoria, whose object it is to widen the breach between the Boers and the British; and as many of these men occupy official positions in the Government of the country, and are therefore more in touch with the Boer legislators than the citizens of Johannesburg can hope to be, they have opportunities which they do not fail to use of increasing the distrust and suspicion already existing between the two races who alone have got to work out the destiny of South Africa between them, and amongst whom they are only meddlesome self-seeking interlopers.

All the various States of South Africa will no doubt be united sooner or later under one flag, but I am beginning to have my doubts as to what flag that will be. It is true that at the present time there exists in South Africa a very large British population of highly intelligent and energetic men, who have been attracted to that country by the diamond and gold fields. That population is constantly increasing, but it is not one which settles on the land. It is rather a population which has come to the country on a visit, in the endeavour to make a fortune with which to retire to the old country, and as the recent census taken in Johannesburg has shown, it is for the most part composed of young men, the greater number of whom are unmarried. Now I suppose it is conceivable that a day may come, say in fifty, eighty or a hundred years time, when all the treasures have been dug up out of the South African earth; and should such a day arrive, is it not also conceivable that the great mining populations which have built the cities of Kimberley and Johannesburg in what a few years ago was a sparsely-inhabited wilderness, may dwindle down to comparatively small proportions, leaving the Boer population, which during all that time will have been increasing at a very rapid rate, once more numerically very much in excess of the British?

It does not appear to me very probable that during the present generation at least the Boers, either of the Transvaal or the Orange Free State, are likely (except under compulsion, which presupposes a deplorable war) to enter any confederacy of South African States, on any terms whatever, under the British flag; and therefore should the large British mining population now existent in the country gradually vanish, and the Boer population at the same time very much increase, the eventful confederation may take place under some other flag than the Union Jack. After all, as the Boers hold as large a stake in land, if not in wealth, as the British in South Africa, and as they were the first comers, and can lay claim to having killed off as many natives, and generally prepared as much country for occupation by white men, as the British, I think they are entitled to some consideration in the matter of the flag which is eventually to fly over the confederated States of South Africa; and for my part I would rather see a confederation take place under a compound flag, composed of equal parts of the Union Jack and Dutch ensign, with a bit of a French flag let in, to represent the Huguenots who, on their first arrival in South Africa, formed one-sixth of the entire white population of the country, and to whom the South African Boers of to-day owe many of their most estimable qualities, than have the country plunged into war in order to enforce its acceptance of the Union Jack.

However, this flag question is a problem of the future, and in the meantime it is the duty of all South Africans who have the welfare of the country as a whole at heart to do all they can to obliterate the remembrance of events galling to the national pride either of Dutchmen or Englishmen, and to endeavour to bring about once more a feeling of mutual trust and confidence between the two races. The Dutch must forget Slagter's Nek and Boomplaats, and the English must learn to think no more of avenging the defeats of Laing's Nek and Majuba Hill than they do of avenging the battles lost by the British troops in America which culminated in the surrender of Cornwallis and the declaration of American independence.

Now there has been for some years past an association in South Africa called the African Bond, which in some quarters at least must be considered anti-British, since another association called the Loyal Colonists' League has been inaugurated to counteract its effects. This latter society, judging by some speeches which have lately been made by some of its members, is frankly anti-Dutch. Now, would it not be better, if, in place of the latter society, whose object seems to be to widen and accentuate the breach which, in the Transvaal at least, is existent between the two races, an association should be formed, which all clergymen of all denominations, including ministers of the Dutch Reformed Church, should be invited to join, whose object should be the gradual obliteration of race-hatred and race-jealousy between the Dutch and British throughout South Africa, by the promotion of knowledge amongst the ignorant and prejudiced of both peoples?—for that, after all, is what is most required in order to bring about mutual respect and mutual forbearance, and enable every member of every State in South Africa to work under equal laws for the general prosperity of the whole country, a prosperity which can never attain to full fruition until the Dutch and British have attained to a political unity throughout South Africa as complete as it is to-day in the Cape Colony.

And now, after this long digression upon matters South African, and the expression of many opinions which, should they be read at all, will possibly only excite ridicule, coupled with a rebuke upon my presumption in wandering from the fields of sport and natural history, where I may be at home, into the arena of politics, where, it will be said, I certainly am not, let me say a few words about the present position and future prospects of Rhodesia.

Should the lists I have given at the end of my book be glanced through, it will be seen that the number of the settlers who were murdered in Matabeleland alone at the outbreak of the native insurrection, added to those who have since been killed and wounded in the subsequent fighting, amounts to over 300, or more than ten per cent of the entire white population of the country at the time of the outbreak of the rebellion, a proportion, I think, which ought to be entirely gratifying to even the most determined enemies of colonial expansion in Africa, whilst it gives the lie direct to the statement which has so frequently been made, that the settlers in Matabeleland have run no greater risks in fighting with the Matabele in order to put down the rebellion than would be incurred by a sportsman engaged in shooting hares and rabbits at home.

I do not expect that the publication of these lists will call the blush of shame to the cheeks of those who have been so eager to vilify their countrymen in Rhodesia, but I do hope that it will arouse a feeling of indignation in the minds of many who have hitherto been more or less led astray by these dishonest, spiteful, and unpatriotic mentors, and at any rate they must be sad reading to all but the most prejudiced. However, the rebellion can now, I think, be considered as almost at an end. The Kafirs have entirely failed in their attempt to kill all the white men in Matabeleland, and to re-establish themselves as an independent nation. To the west, north-west, north, north-east, and east, the impis which four months ago had formed a cordon round all those faces of Bulawayo have one and all been driven from their positions, and have now broken up into hundreds of little bands, living in the forests with their wives and children. From all the information one can gather, the vast majority of these people are already suffering from want of food, as their cattle are all or nearly all dead from rinderpest, and a large proportion of their year's supply of grain has been taken possession of or destroyed by the white men. Under these conditions they cannot hold out much longer, and they would probably have already come in to surrender were it not that on the one hand, knowing the exasperation caused amongst the whites by the crimes they have committed, they are afraid to throw themselves on their mercy, and on the other they are kept from doing so by their chiefs, who having been the ringleaders of the rebellion, and fearing that in case of surrender their own lives at least would be forfeited, are still doing all they can to prevent their people from submitting.

In the Matopos, Mr. Cecil Rhodes and Mr. Johan Colenbrander are at the present moment carrying on negotiations with the insurgent chiefs, which may or may not end in peace. Should no satisfactory arrangement be arrived at, and the war be continued, the natives will be driven to desperation, and it will not only require a much larger force than there is at present in the country, but the expenditure of a vast amount of money, and the loss of many valuable lives, before they can be absolutely all killed or hunted out of the almost impregnable fastnesses and hills honeycombed with caverns which exist all over the large area of country known as the Matopos.

Now I think that, in view of the enormous cost and great loss of life that would be entailed by the decision to make no terms with the natives, it would be better to accept their submission on lines consistent with the future safety of the country. The chiefs must stand their trial, but the lives of all those who have had no part in the murder of white men, women, and children, could be guaranteed. The whole nation must of course be disarmed as completely as possible, and the actual murderers of white people during the first days of the rebellion must be shot or hanged. But should these conditions be complied with, whilst at the same time a large police force is maintained in the country, and the native administration carried on in such a way that, although the natives are treated with firmness, their grievances will always be heard, and as far as possible remedied, I do not think we need fear another rebellion.

Of course there are those who say that it is a great mistake to hold any parley with them at all. Go on killing them, they say, until the remnant crawl in on their hands and knees and beg for mercy. Well, that end could only be attained, as I have already said, at a cost of much money and many lives; so I think that there are many here, who, some for the sake of expediency and others for the sake of humanity, would now wish to see this rebellion ended as soon as possible, if it can be done in such a way as to ensure the future safety of the settlers in the country. As soon as the chiefs submit and their people are again located on the lands from which they have been driven, I think there can be no doubt that the country will, for the time being, be perfectly safe for white men; for history has shown us that when a Kafir tribe submits it does so absolutely for the time being, and no murders of isolated individuals are committed until the chiefs are ready for another insurrection.

It may of course be said that the Matabele have not yet been thoroughly beaten, and that, having gained a good deal of experience during the last five months, their idea in submitting is to get in their next year's crops and then begin again, on the principle of "reculer pour mieux sauter." But is this at all probable? After the first war they were more or less surprised into submission to the white men, the greater part of them never having fought for their country at all. Then they found that the shoe of the white man's rule began to pinch, but they wore it for two years, and did not attempt to throw it off until the country appeared to them to have been left in an absolutely defenceless condition by their conquerors.

They have now had their rebellion, and it has absolutely failed, and they have lost at least twice as many men in the recent fighting as they did in the first war. Nor is there any longer a cattle question to excite their resentment, for the cattle are all, or almost all, dead from the rinderpest. Therefore it appears to me, that if they are disarmed as far as is possible, and if a strong police force is maintained in the country for the next few years, their submission can be safely accepted, and the mass of the people be allowed to go unpunished; but justice and common sense both demand that all who are proved to have been implicated, either directly or indirectly, in any of the murders which marked the outbreak of the rebellion, shall be most summarily dealt with. They will be gradually discovered, and some, it may be, may not be brought to justice for years to come, but no mercy must be shown them whenever or wherever they may be found.

In less than two years' time the railway now being pushed on through the Bechuanaland Protectorate will have reached Bulawayo; and if the natives can be kept quiet by a firm and just rule until the advent of the iron horse in Matabeleland, there is little fear of their ever again rising in rebellion against the white man.

In the meantime the development of the country must remain at a standstill, and the country retained as a British possession, by an occupation which will be almost purely military, as not only has the cost of living been rendered almost prohibitive through the destruction of all the cattle in Matabeleland and Bechuanaland by the rinderpest, and the consequent substitution of mules and donkeys in the place of oxen for draught purposes, but farming also has been rendered very difficult, as, putting aside stock and dairy farming, no ploughing can be done without oxen, nor can agricultural produce be carried to market without the assistance of those useful animals, for salted and acclimatised horses and mules are too scarce and expensive to be reckoned on for farm work. The rinderpest, therefore, has for the present put an end to all European enterprise in the way of mining and farming in Matabeleland.

People in England can only realise the disastrous effect which this dread disease has had on the prosperity of the country by endeavouring to picture to themselves what the consequences would have been had a disease suddenly made its appearance in Great Britain in the early part of the present century, before the introduction of railways, which destroyed ninety-nine per cent of all the horses in the British Isles; yet even that would scarcely represent the extent of the calamity from the effects of which we are now suffering, when it is considered what an immense tract of barren wilderness yet lies between Matabeleland and the nearest railway station.

In the early part of this year there were over 100,000 head of cattle, all sleek and in excellent condition, in Matabeleland, but when it closes, I think it very doubtful if 500 will be still left alive in the whole country. Even this loss is small as compared with that sustained by Khama and his people, who were the largest cattle-holders in South Africa, and whose loss it has been computed, from reliable data, exceeds 800,000 head of horned cattle.

However, the rinderpest is a calamity which is not likely to occur again, but which, when it does occur, sweeps everything before it both in Europe and Africa. That Matabeleland as a whole is a country second to none in South Africa for cattle-breeding is the opinion of everyone who has lived there for any length of time and had the opportunity of studying the matter. When, therefore, the rinderpest has died out, and the railway has reached Bulawayo, the country will be gradually restocked; and then, too, mining machinery will be imported, and our mines will at last be worked with a result which will give the final death-blow to all those who have for the last six years been engaged in disseminating falsehoods concerning Rhodesia.

From the statistics supplied to me by the Compensation Board, which I have given in the form of an appendix, it will be seen that a good deal of farming work had already been done at the time of the outbreak of the rebellion, and that the population of Matabeleland were not all "gin-sellers" or "men who had gone out to Matabeleland in order to swindle the British public, by inducing them to subscribe for shares in worthless companies, whose so-called gold claims contained no gold." The fact, too, that farmers and prospectors were living all over the country in perfect health rather explodes the theory of a noxious vapour rising to some four feet from the ground which is so deadly to Europeans that all colonisation of the country is impossible; but this, if I remember aright, was the theory propounded by one of Mr. Labouchere's "reliable" correspondents—a fit contributor, forsooth, to the pages of _Truth_.

It is now known throughout South Africa that Matabeleland and Mashunaland are white men's countries, where Europeans can live and thrive and rear strong healthy children; that they are magnificent countries for stock-breeding, and that many portions of them will prove suitable for Merino sheep and Angora goats; whilst agriculture and fruit-growing can be carried on successfully almost everywhere in a small way, and in certain districts, especially in Mashunaland and Manica where there is a greater abundance of water, on a fairly extensive scale.

As for the gold, there is every reason to believe that out of the enormous number of reefs which are considered by their owners to be payable properties some small proportion at least will turn up trumps, and, should this proportion only amount to two per cent, that will be quite sufficient to ensure a big output of gold in the near future, which will in its turn ensure the prosperity of the whole country.

Once let the railway reach Bulawayo, and given intelligent legislation in the best interests of the settlers and miners in the country, Rhodesia will soon prove its value to the most sceptical; but the prosperity which I predict will, I am afraid, be very much retarded, if not completely destroyed, by the revocation at the present moment of the Charter which was granted to the British South Africa Company in 1889, and the substitution of Imperial rule for the present form of Government. For this reason:—Under the present régime the Company's administrator is always accessible to the people living in the country, and whatever local reforms may be deemed necessary by the latter are always capable of discussion, and can be acceded to by him on the spot, without despatches having first of all to be forwarded to the High Commissioner at the Cape, by whom they would be sent on to the Colonial Office, with the result that a local reform, urgently required, might be delayed for months or never granted at all.

Under the Company's government, too, the administrator himself would always be a man acquainted with the history of the territories he was governing, and would be probably one who not only had the prosperity of the country he was governing deeply at heart, but who also would have a very good idea as to how that prosperity was likely to be attained. During the next few years, too, which will be a very critical period in the history of Rhodesia, such an administrator would always have the benefit of the advice of the man through whose energy and genius the territories forming that state have been secured for the British Empire. But should this territory be converted into a Crown colony and governed from Downing Street on hard-and-fast lines, some of them not at all applicable to local requirements, with an administrator very likely ignorant of his local surroundings, and possibly out of sympathy with the settlers—Dutch and British—who have made the country their home, nothing but disaster is to be expected.

Surely the people who have stuck to Rhodesia through good and evil times, and who, under the auspices of the Chartered Company, have added a vast territory to the British Empire and laid the foundations of what will soon be a prosperous colony, which, given an intelligent and adaptable form of government, will be able to pay its way, ought to have some say in this matter, and not be transferred unwillingly to a rule which they know would be ill suited to local requirements, and under which local enterprises would surely languish for want of the fostering care which only a local administrator can provide.

The white population of Rhodesia have had many a growl at the government of the Chartered Company, but in most cases they have got what they growled for—to wit, the extension of the railways, both from the Cape Colony and the East Coast; the reduction of the Company's percentage of interest in the mines; and full and most generous compensation, where the claims were just, for cattle destroyed in the endeavour to stay the progress of the rinderpest, and for all losses sustained owing to the late native insurrection. Under Imperial rule they know that no compensation has ever been granted for losses sustained through a native rebellion, and they also know that little or no assistance could be hoped for in the construction of railways or other public works. Recognising all these things, having as an object-lesson just before their eyes the wretchedly slow progress made in Bechuanaland under the Imperial administration, and knowing, moreover, that the Transvaal war of 1880-81, if not the loss of the Transvaal itself as a British possession, was brought about solely by a Government from Downing Street, through an administrator entirely ignorant of local requirements and absolutely out of sympathy with the people he was chosen to govern, can it be wondered at that at a recent meeting of the Chamber of Commerce in this town, the people of Bulawayo expressed confidence in the government of the Chartered Company and in Mr. Cecil Rhodes, representing as they do a corporation of capitalists who hold the largest financial stake in the country, and whose aims and objects are identical with those of the people living in the country, whilst they resented the idea of being handed over to Imperial rule without having their wishes in the matter consulted, in order to please the Little Englander party at home?

One of the most noteworthy features at the meeting to which I have referred was the remarkable unanimity shown by the British and Dutch on this subject, for the Dutch up here believe in Mr. Rhodes, and have the most absolute confidence in his ability to insure the prosperity of the country. The natives, too, as has just been shown, look upon him as their father; and I believe that through his influence and the strength of his personality, a peace will soon be arranged with them, which would have been impossible at the present time but for his presence in the country.

BULAWAYO, _26th August 1896_.

APPENDICES

APPENDIX A

HEADQUARTERS, INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT, BULAWAYO, _August 1896_.

Amended List of Persons murdered in Matabeleland during the recent native insurrection.

┌―――――――――――――――――――┬―――――――――――――┬――――――――――――┬―――――――――――――――――――――――┐ │ │ │ Date │ │ │ Names. │ District. │ (1896). │ Details. │ ├―――――――――――――――――――┼―――――――――――――┼――――――――――――┼―――――――――――――――――――――――┤ │ │ │ │ │ │ Anderson, │ Sebakwe │ End March │ On way to │ │ Joscelyn Hepburn │ │ │ Mafungabusi; │ │ │ │ │ engineer. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Anderson, Alex. │ Boola Boola │ 25th " │ Reported killed by │ │ │ │ │ F. Evans, his mate, │ │ │ │ │ who escaped. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Bertlesen Family │ Shangani │ End " │ Farming 12 miles │ │ (6) (father, │ River │ │ north of Hartley │ │ mother, and 4 │ │ │ Hills Road. │ │ sons) │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Baragwanath, John │ Filibusi │ 24th May │ Brother in the B.F.F. │ │ Albert │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Bentley, Arthur │ " │ " " │ A N.-C. from │ │ │ │ │ Queenstown district. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Barr, W. A. │ Shangani │ End March │ Family, contractors │ │ │ │ │ at Bristol. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Barnard, Harry │ Umvungu │ 25th " │ Partner of West │ │ Edgar │ │ │ Brothers, Umvungu │ │ │ │ │ Store; late with │ │ │ │ │ Parker Wood, │ │ │ │ │ Johannesburg. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Bolton │ Inyati │ End March │ Killed with Cyril │ │ │ │ │ West (Williams' │ │ │ │ │ Ex. Coy.) │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Bowen, Jimmy │ Mavene │ 30th " │ Hammond's Mines; │ │ │ │ │ killed with │ │ │ │ │ S. Van Blerk. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Borgen or Vorgen │ Shangani │ ... │ Prospector. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Bowker, Trooper │ Lower Gwelo │ 30th " │ M.M.P. sent to warn │ │ │ │ │ people, Lower Gwelo. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Colas, Dionysius │ Inyati │ End " │ A Greek trader. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Cunningham, James │ Filibusi │ 24th " │ One of Cunningham │ │ Samuel │ │ │ family, away carting │ │ │ │ │ wood. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Clark, W. E. │ Mavene │ End " │ Body found—Gwelo │ │ │ │ │ patrol. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Carpenter, John │ Filibusi │ 24th " │ Body found near │ │ Loran │ │ │ Filibusi Store. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Cunningham Family │ Filibusi │ 24th March │ Farmers near Store │ │ (8) (father, │ │ │ (brother, F. H. │ │ mother, and 6 │ │ │ Cunningham, Dundee, │ │ children) │ │ │ Natal). │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Classen, Henry │ Makukapene │ 26th " │ Body seen. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Case, George │ Inyati │ " " │ M.M.P., killed with │ │ │ │ │ Graham, Handley, │ │ │ │ │ Hurford, and Corke. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Corke, Leighton │ " │ " " │ Ex. M.M.P., do. │ │ Huntley │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Comploier, P. │ Gwelo │ " " │ Prospector; body │ │ │ │ │ buried by Napier's │ │ │ │ │ Gwelo patrol. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Cumming, Percy H. │ Filibusi │ 25th " │ Son of Mr. and Mrs. │ │ │ │ │ Cumming, Bulawayo; │ │ │ │ │ body seen near │ │ │ │ │ Filibusi Store. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Crawley, Alaine │ " │ " " │ Working with J. │ │ M. │ │ │ Schultz. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Cato, Colin │ " │ " " │ Body seen at edge of │ │ │ │ │ shaft. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Donovan, Timothy │ Inyati │ " " │ Killed with Seward │ │ (?S. A.) │ │ │ near Ancients Reef; │ │ │ │ │ working for Mallert. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Durden, Charles │ Ingwena │ " " │ Killed with Surveyor │ │ │ │ │ Fitzpatrick. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Dufra │ Lower Gwelo │ 30th " │ Killed at Shangani. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Daly, John │ Filibusi │ 25th " │ Left for Gambo's │ │ (?James) │ │ │ kraal. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Davies, Harold │ Bembisi │ 2nd April │ Killed near Thaba │ │ John │ │ │ N'Couga. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Danby, Lewis │ Bulawayo │ ... │ Prospector. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Daly, James M. │ Bubi │ 25th March │ Managing Glen's │ │ │ │ │ farms; sick at time │ │ │ │ │ of death. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Edwards, Norman │ Inyati │ " " │ Surveyor (of Fletcher │ │ │ │ │ and Espiro). │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Edkins, E. C. │ Filibusi │ 24th " │ Storekeeper (brother │ │ │ │ │ in Johannesburg); │ │ │ │ │ body seen in store. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Eaglestone, │ Makukapene │ End March │ Partner of Joseph │ │ Charles Percy │ │ │ Clinton. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Ehlert, Ferdinand │ Filibusi │ " " │ Working with J. │ │ (known as │ │ │ Jeffries. Family in │ │ "Bill") │ │ │ Kimberley. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Earst, Ayerst │ " │ " " │ Working with J. │ │ Alfred │ │ │ Jeffries. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Edgell, E. R. │ On way from │ " " │ Murdered by natives, │ │ │ Gwelo to │ │ as reported by │ │ │ Hartley │ │ Adjutant Taylor, │ │ │ Hills │ │ Gwelo. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Fitzpatrick │ Lower Gwelo │ 25th " │ Surveyor; body seen. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Farquharson, │ Bulawayo │ ... │ Storekeeper. │ │ James John │ │ │ │ │ Edward │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Forster, Wilson │ Makukapene │ " " │ Prospector; body seen.│ │ │ │ │ │ │ Fourie Family (8) │ Tekwe River │ 2nd April │ Farming; bodies │ │ (Stephanus, │ │ │ buried by Napier's │ │ wife,and 6 │ │ │ Gwelo patrol. │ │ children) │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Fourie, Caspar │ Near │ 20th April │ Transport rider, │ │ Hendrick │ Bulawayo │ │ killed with │ │ │ │ │ Potgieter. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Farrar │ Lower Gwelo │ End March │ Prospector, with │ │ │ │ │ companion (name │ │ │ │ │ unknown). │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Foxkerk, Stanley │ Shangani │ 25th " │ Prospector. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Grenfell, Pascoe │ Inyati │ End " │ Left Inyati for Bubi; │ │ St. L. │ │ │ Manager Company. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Gordon, John │ Gwelo │ " " │ Miner. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Graham, A. M. │ Inyati │ 26th " │ A N.-C. Family in │ │ │ │ │ Glasgow. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Grant, John │ Filibusi │ 25th " │ Mining with Robert │ │ M'Innes │ │ │ Sharpe. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Grant, Jock │ " │ " " │ Killed with Jock │ │ M'Leod. │ │ │ Nimmo at Godlway's │ │ │ │ │ kraal; body buried │ │ │ │ │ by Salisbury column. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Greenhaugh, John │ Hotel, │ " " │ Working with Whawill │ │ │ Filibusi │ │ and Reddan. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Gracey, Robert │ Shangani │ End " │ Body buried by │ │ │ │ │ Napier's Gwelo │ │ │ │ │ patrol. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Hunter, H. E. │ Bembisi │ " " │ Body seen. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Handley, Mark │ Inyati │ " " │ Sub-Inspector M.M.P., │ │ │ │ │ son of Henry Handley,│ │ │ │ │ Natal. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Hurford, George │ " │ " " │ Late M.M.P., killed │ │ │ │ │ with Graham, Handley,│ │ │ │ │ Case, and Corke. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Hurlstone, │ Pongo River │ " " │ Partner of H. P. │ │ Frederick │ Hotel │ │ Selmes. Family in │ │ │ │ │ Coventry. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Harbord, H. M. │ Mavene │ " " │ Store on Hartley Hill │ │ │ │ │ Road (brother, A. G. │ │ │ │ │ Harbord, Longton, │ │ │ │ │ near Nottingham). │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Hammond, And. │ Shangani │ " " │ Killed with Palmer │ │ Robt. │ │ │ and Johnson, │ │ │ │ │ engineers. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Hartley, Joseph │ Ingwena │ " " │ Body found at │ │ │ Store │ │ Harbord's Store; age │ │ │ │ │ about forty-five, │ │ │ │ │ height 5 ft. 8 in. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Holstein │ Shangani │ ... │ Prospector. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Ivers, Colin │ Filibusi │ 24th " │ Body found Celtic │ │ Campbell │ │ │ Reef. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Johnson, W. H. │ Shangani │ 30th " │ Killed with Hammond │ │ │ │ │ and Palmer. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Jensen, Charles │ " │ " " │ A Swede. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Johnston │ Filibusi │ 25th " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Jeffries, J. │ " │ " " │ Working with Ehlert │ │ │ │ │ and Earst. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Kirk, Agnes │ Tekwe River │ 2nd April │ J. Ross's │ │ │ │ │ stepdaughter; body │ │ │ │ │ buried by Napier's │ │ │ │ │ patrol. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Keefe, Charles │ Shangani │ 2nd March │ Working with Webster. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Keefe, Christopher│ " │ " " │ " " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Koch │ Filibusi │ 25th " │ Killed with Jeffries, │ │ │ │ │ Ehlert, and Earst. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Livesay, E. R. │ Filibusi │ End March │ Late Lieutenant 3rd │ │ Eustace │ │ │ Dragoon Guards. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Luckcass, Herbert │ " │ 25th " │ Killed at O'Maker's │ │ │ │ │ waggon; others │ │ │ │ │ escaped. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Lennock, George │ Gwelo │ End " │ Body found Mavene; │ │ │ │ │ almost │ │ │ │ │ unrecognisable. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Langford (2), Dr. │ Insiza │ " " │ Bodies found on │ │ and Mrs. │ │ │ Rixon's farm and │ │ │ │ │ buried by Napier's │ │ │ │ │ Gwelo patrol. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Lemon, C. J. │ " │ " " │ Father G. D. Lemon, │ │ │ │ │ Raleigh, Bedeford, │ │ │ │ │ North Devon; money │ │ │ │ │ at Standard Bank; │ │ │ │ │ buried by Napier's │ │ │ │ │ Gwelo patrol. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Lewis, Arthur B. │ Filibusi │ 25th " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Lund, Severin │ Gwaai River │ End " │ A Dane. │ │ H. C. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ M'Heugh, Harry │ Bembisi │ " " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Maddocks, Thomas │ Filibusi │ 23rd " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Melford, William │ Gwelo │ End " │ │ │ B. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Matthews │ Shangani │ " " │ With Van der Doorten; │ │ │ │ │ a Jew from Melbourne.│ │ │ │ │ │ │ Mathey, Ernest │ Filibusi │ 25th " │ Body recognised near │ │ │ │ │ Store. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Marcussen, │ Hartley │ ... │ Prospector. │ │ Andreas E. │ Hills │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Morrison, James E.│ Queen's │ 29th " │ Refused to leave. │ │ │ Reef │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ M'Cormack │ Ingwena │ End " │ Working with H. B. │ │ │ Store │ │ Taylor; body not │ │ │ │ │ seen. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Macdonald, Colin │ Filibusi │ 25th " │ Killed with Classen. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Nimmo, Walter │ " │ " " │ Murdered with John │ │ (known as Jock │ │ │ M'Leod Grant. │ │ or Watty) │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Palmer, H. M. │ Shangani │ 30th " │ Killed with Hammond │ │ │ │ │ and Johnson. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Potgieter, Derk │ Bulawayo │ 20th April │ Transport rider. │ │ Rainer │ Road │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Ottens, Wilhelm O.│ Filibusi │ 24th March │ Family lives near │ │ │ │ │ Assen, Holland. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ O'Reilly, T. │ Gwelo │ End " │ Murdered on Leechdale │ │ │ │ │ Co.'s property. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ O'Connor, │ Filibusi │ 25th " │ Brother saved; in │ │ ("Jack") John │ │ │ Bulawayo. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Reddington, │ Pongo River │ End " │ Clerk to Hurlstone. │ │ Reginald │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Reddan, Valentine │ Filibusi │ 25th " │ Murdered with │ │ │ │ │ Greenhaugh and │ │ │ │ │ Whawill. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Rowe, F. R. │ Shangani │ 30th " │ Miner of St. Austell. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Richards, John │ Bulawayo │ ... │ Prospector. │ │ Edward │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Ross (2), Joseph │ Tekwe River │ 2nd April │ │ │ and wife │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Rowlands, John │ Bembisi │ │ Miner of King │ │ James │ │ │ William's Town. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Radford, A. │ Shangani │ End March │ Partner of Leech. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Raw │ Lower Gwelo │ ... │ Prospector. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Sharpe, Robert │ Filibusi │ 25th March │ Killed with Grant. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Stanley, Frank │ Sebakwe │ End " │ Brother, late Lieut. │ │ Harrison │ │ │ Royal Irish Rifles, │ │ │ │ │ c/o Armstrong Bros., │ │ │ │ │ bankers, │ │ │ │ │ 93 Bishopgate St., │ │ │ │ │ London. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Stobie, James │ Mavene │ 25th " │ Murdered with Joseph │ │ │ │ │ Hartley, both working│ │ │ │ │ for G. R. Ainnocks. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Smith │ Lower Gwelo │ ... │ Miner. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Seward, George E. │ Filibusi │ 25th " │ Killed with Cato, │ │ │ │ │ near Ancients Reef; │ │ │ │ │ working for Mallett. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Talman, Frank │ Gwelo │ End " │ Near Pongo Store; │ │ │ │ │ body recognised by │ │ │ │ │ Robinson. Age 24; │ │ │ │ │ 5 ft. 5 in.; light. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Taylor, George │ Shangani │ " " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Thomas, Jock │ " │ " " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Tyass, George (of │ Bembisi │ " " │ Sent with medicine to │ │ Natal) │ │ │ J. H. Daly. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Van Blerk, Sid. │ Mavene │ 30th " │ Hammond's Mines; age │ │ │ │ │ 30; killed with │ │ │ │ │ Jimmy Bowen. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Vaughan, Thomas │ Pongo River │ 25th " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Van Gorckim, │ Bulawayo │ ... │ Bricklayer. │ │ Martinus │ │ │ │ │ Gerhardus │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Vavaseur, Robert │ Stoneybrook │ June │ Reported murdered to │ │ │ Thabas M. │ │ Charter. │ │ │ Simbi │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Van der Doorten │ Shangani │ 30th March │ From Rotterdam. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ White, Robert │ Inyati │ End " │ Left Inyati for Bubi. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ West, Cyril │ Inyati │ End " │ Killed with Bolton. │ │ (Willoughbys) │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ West Bros. (2) │ Shangani │ " " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Wren │ " │ 25th " │ Cattle-inspector in │ │ │ │ │ district. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Wyllie, David │ Gwelo │ End " │ Working for Warwick │ │ │ │ │ Colliers. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Wright, James │ Bembisi │ ... │ Storeman (of │ │ │ │ │ Johannesburg). │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Woods, Arthur │ Filibusi │ 25th " │ Working and killed │ │ W. P. │ │ │ with E. Mathey. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ White, Charles │ Shangani │ " " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ White, Edward │ Filibusi │ " " │ Killed with Jack │ │ │ │ │ O'Connor. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Walsh, William │ Mavene │ End " │ Body found Gwelo │ │ │ │ │ patrol; aged 40; │ │ │ │ │ buried Mavene patrol.│ │ │ │ │ │ │ Whawill, John │ Filibusi │ 25th " │ Killed with Reddan │ │ │ │ │ and Greenhaugh. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Webster, R. │ Shangani │ End " │ Killed with Keefes, a │ │ │ │ │ partner of Peacock's.│ │ │ │ │ │ │ Weinand │ " │ " " │ Cattle-inspector. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Zeeburg, H. │ Pongo River │ 26th " │ Trader. │ │ │ │ │ │ └―――――――――――――――――――┴―――――――――――――┴――――――――――――┴―――――――――――――――――――――――┘

List of Persons supposed to have been in Matabeleland at the time of the outbreak of the insurrection, of whom nothing has since been heard, and the greater part, if not all, of whom must therefore be numbered amongst those murdered by the natives.

┌――――――――――――――――――――――┬――――――――――――――┬――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――┐ │ │ Details and │ │ │ Names. │ Address. │ Last heard of. │ ├——————————————————————┼——————————————┼————————————————————————————————┤ │ Ansterhauzen │ Thabas Mamba │ Trading at Thabas Mamba. │ │ │ │ │ │ Bird, Robert George │ ... │ Left Cape Town 13th April. │ │ │ │ │ │ Band │ ... │ Late of Johannesburg Police. │ │ │ │ │ │ Burch, Dr. │ ... │ Reported to be in Matabeleland.│ │ │ │ │ │ Bridge, Walter │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Batchelor, Franc D. │ ... │ Reported to have been on some │ │ │ │ mining property near Bulawayo.│ │ │ │ │ │ Bruce, Stewart │ ... │ A Trooper in Dr. Jameson's │ │ │ │ force. │ │ Bent │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Bowen, O. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Beaton, James │ Johannesburg │ Left Scotland in 1880 East for │ │ │ │ London, afterwards in │ │ │ │ Kimberley and Johannesburg, │ │ │ │ and left latter place │ │ │ │ probably for Bulawayo. │ │ │ │ Height 5 ft. 10 in.; │ │ │ │ black curly hair; well built; │ │ │ │ 42 years of age. │ │ │ │ │ │ Cook, James P. │ Bulawayo │ Photographer's assistant, │ │ │ │ Bulawayo. │ │ │ │ │ │ Cook, Thomas │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Cook, Robert │ ... │ Late of M.M.P. │ │ │ │ │ │ Carstens, John E. A. │ Bulawayo │ Formerly in Captain Selous' │ │ │ │ Troop. │ │ │ │ │ │ Carter, James │ " │ Civil engineer in Bulawayo. │ │ │ │ │ │ Dickson or Dixon │ Gwelo │ Gwelo district. │ │ │ │ │ │ Douvre │ " │ " │ │ │ │ │ │ Dixon, R. │ ... │ Formerly in army. │ │ │ │ │ │ Doveton, W. T. │ Inyati │ Seen in Bulawayo between 1-13 │ │ │ │ April, and not heard of since.│ │ │ │ │ │ Evers, Harold Cecil │ Bulawayo │ Bulawayo district. │ │ │ │ │ │ Greyling (5), John, │ " │ On road to Bulawayo. │ │ wife, and 3 │ │ │ │ children │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Grant, Jimmy │ " │ Bulawayo. │ │ │ │ │ │ Hill, John Shutter │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Jacobs, Charlie │ ... │ Gwelo camp, 2nd June. │ │ │ │ │ │ Jones, William │ Bulawayo │ Bulawayo at time Matabele War. │ │ Stevens │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Kerr │ Gwelo │ Shangani district. │ │ │ │ │ │ Kroger, Frans J. │ Chemist │ Delagoa Bay. │ │ │ │ │ │ Lee, Thomas │ Gwelo │ Gwelo district. │ │ │ │ │ │ Mackenzie, Thomas │ Bulawayo │ Bulawayo. │ │ │ │ │ │ Morrison, Wm. │ ... │ Late of B.B.P. │ │ Hutchinson │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Matthews, Stuart │ Bulawayo │ Late of Dunraven mines. │ │ │ │ │ │ Honey, Clifford │ ... │ Formerly of B.B.P. │ │ Francis │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Mitchell, Basil │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Magee, Joseph │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Nieuwenhaus │ ... │ Bulawayo road. │ │ │ │ │ │ Oosthuizen │ Gwelo │ Shangani district. │ │ │ │ │ │ Orton, Henry │ ... │ Sebakwe drift. │ │ Sambourne │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Palmer, William R. │ Johannesburg │ Bulawayo, end February. │ │ │ │ │ │ Reet, P. │ Transport │ Pietersburg. │ │ │ rider │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Rothman, John │ Bulawayo │ Bulawayo. │ │ │ │ │ │ Reynard, J. J. │ ... │ Believed to be in Colonel │ │ │ │ Plumer's force. │ │ │ │ │ │ Reed, William James │ late │ Bulawayo. │ │ │ Johannesburg │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Richardson, Arthur │ ... │ A prospector. │ │ │ │ │ │ Stalmp, Frank J. │ London │ Bulawayo. │ │ │ │ │ │ Spalteholz, Kurt │ Dresden, │ Left Johannesburg for Bulawayo,│ │ │ Germany │ December 1895. │ │ │ │ │ │ Spalteholz, Kurt │ Amsterdam │ Last heard of, Pietersburg, │ │ │ │ 2nd Jan. 1896, when on road │ │ │ │ Bulawayo with party by ox │ │ │ │ waggon. Height 6 ft.; age 24; │ │ │ │ smooth face; light brown hair;│ │ │ │ sharp features. Papers of his │ │ │ │ have been found on Rixon's │ │ │ │ farm, and bag (possibly │ │ │ │ belonging to him) at Thabas │ │ │ │ Mamba. │ │ │ │ │ │ Smith, Sidney Z. │ Mafeking │ Reported to have left Mafeking │ │ │ │ with M.R.F. │ │ │ │ │ │ Tilbury, George │ ... │ Mafeking, 24th April. │ │ │ │ │ │ Taylor, Alfred West │ ... │ Possibly passing under his │ │ │ │ step-father's name of Bent. │ │ │ │ │ │ Wright, James │ Bulawayo │ Bulawayo. │ │ │ │ │ │ Wilson, Edward E. │ ... │ Bulawayo, June 1895. │ │ │ │ │ │ Walsh, Frederick │ │ │ │ Byron. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Webster, R. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Walsh, I. │ Bulawayo │ Came in from Golingena at │ │ │ │ beginning of rebellion. │ │ │ │ │ └――――――――――――――――――――――┴――――――――――――――┴――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――┘

APPENDIX B

HEADQUARTERS, INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT, BULAWAYO, _August 1896_.

List of Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, and Men killed in action during the Matabele rebellion.

┌――――┬――――――――――┬――――――─―――――――――――――┬――――――――――――――――――――┬―――――─――――――┐ │ │ │ │ │ Date │ │ No.│ Rank. │ Name. │ Where killed. │ (1896). │ ├――――┼――――――――――┼――――――――――――――――――――┼――――――――――――――――――――┼――――─―――――――┤ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 1 │ Sergeant │ O'Leary, T., │ Cumming's Store │ 27th March │ │ │ │ M.M.P. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 2 │ Corporal │ Reynolds, Ernest │ Gifford's patrol │ 6th April │ │ │ │ E., R.H.V. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 3 │ Trooper │ Mackenzie, S. │ " " │ " │ │ │ │ Kenneth, R.H.V. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 4 │ " │ Baker, Richard │ Gwanda patrol │ 10th April │ │ │ │ Arthur, R.H.V. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 5 │ " │ Hayland, Edward, │ " " │ " │ │ │ │ R.H.V. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 6 │ " │ Packe, Christopher │ " " │ " │ │ │ │ J., R.H.V. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 7 │ Corporal │ Greer, Stewart │ " " │ " │ │ │ │ George, R.H.V. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 8 │ Trooper │ Forbes, J. │ " " │ " │ │ │ │ M'Ainsch, R.H.V. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 9 │ " │ Boyes, George │ Macfarlane's │ 19th April │ │ │ │ Walter, B.F.F., │ patrol │ │ │ │ │ Afcr. Corps │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 10 │ " │ Heinemann, J. J., │ Vedette duty │ " │ │ │ │ B.F.F. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 11 │ " │ Van Zyl, W., │ " " │ " │ │ │ │ B.F.F. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 12 │ " │ Montgomerie, │ " " │ " │ │ │ │ Henry, B.F.F. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 13 │ " │ Baxter, Frank Wm., │ Grey's Scouts, │ 22nd April │ │ │ │ B.F.F. │ Bisset's patrol │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 14 │ " │ Whitehouse, Henry │ Ambulance, │ 25th April │ │ │ │ George, B.F.F. │ Macfarlane's │ │ │ │ │ │ patrol │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 15 │ " │ Gordon, Charles, │ Dawson's Scouts, │ " │ │ │ │ B.F.F. │ Macfarlane's │ │ │ │ │ │ patrol │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 16 │ " │ Parsons, Benj., │ D Troop, vedette │ " │ │ │ │ B.F.F. │ duty │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 17 │ " │ Hay, Carrick, │ Coope's Scouts, │ 25th May │ │ │ │ B.F.F. │ Plumer's patrol │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 18 │ Trooper │ Parker, Arthur, │ L Troop, Napier's │ 22nd May │ │ │ │ B.F.F. │ Gwelo patrol │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 19 │ " │ Rothman, George, │ L Troop, Napier's │ " │ │ │ │ B.F.F. │ Gwelo patrol │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 20 │ " │ Langton, Courtney, │ Thabas Mamba │ 6th July │ │ │ │ E Squad, M.R.F. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 21 │ " │ O'Reilly, John, │ " " │ " │ │ │ │ Brand's Troop, │ │ │ │ │ │ B.F.F. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 22 │ Corporal │ Pringle, James F., │ " " │ " │ │ │ │ A Squad, M.R.F. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 23 │ Sergeant │ Warringham, Fred. │ Matopos, Babian's │ 20th July │ │ │ │ Chas., A Troop, │ impi │ │ │ │ │ M.M.P. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 24 │ Corporal │ Hall, John, │ Inugu engagement, │ " │ │ │ │ Belingwe F.F. │ Matopos │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 25 │ Trooper │ Bennett, Peter, │ Inugu engagement, │ " │ │ │ │ E. Troop, M.M.P. │ Matopos │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 26 │ " │ Bush, William │ Inugu engagement, │ " │ │ │ │ Henry, E. Troop, │ Matopos │ │ │ │ │ M.M.P. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 27 │ " │ Matheson, R. B., │ Bezury Hills │ 21st July │ │ │ │ Major Hurrell's │ engagement │ │ │ │ │ Troop │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 28 │ Corporal │ Hayes, Dan., Major │ Sinango kopje │ 7th July │ │ │ │ Hurrell's Troop │ engagement │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 29 │ Major │ Kershaw, C Squad, │ Sikombo engagement │ 5th │ │ │ │ M.R.F. │ │ August │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 30 │ Sergeant │ M'Closkie, Oswald, │ " " │ " │ │ │ │ C Squad, M.R.F. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 31 │ " │ Gibb, William, │ " " │ " │ │ │ │ D Squad, M.R.F. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 32 │ " │ Innes, Kerr, Maxim │ " " │ " │ │ │ │ gun, M.R.F. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 33 │ Battery │ Ainslie, │ " " │ " │ │ │ Sergt.- │ Alexander, M.M.P. │ │ │ │ │ Maj. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 34 │ Lieut., │ Hervey, Herbert │ " " │ " │ │ │ Dismnt. │ John Anthony, │ │ │ │ │ Troop. │ died from │ │ │ │ │ │ wounds, late │ │ │ │ │ │ Paymaster-General │ │ │ └――――┴――――――――――┴――――――─―――――――――――――┴――――――――――――――――――――┴―――――─――――――┘

APPENDIX C

HEADQUARTERS, INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT, BULAWAYO, _August 1896_.

List of Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, and Men wounded; or died in hospital from wounds received in action during the Matabele rebellion.

┌――――┬――――――――――┬――――――─――――――――――――┬―――――――――――――――――――─―┬――――─――――─――┐ │ │ │ │ │ Date │ │ No.│ Rank. │ Name. │ Details. │ (1896). │ ├――――┼――――――――――┼―――――――――――――――――――┼―――――――――――――――――――─―┼―――─―――――─――┤ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 1 │ Trooper │ Hill, Eustace │ Gifford's patrol, │ 27th March │ │ │ │ │ Insiza │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 2 │ " │ Hocking, John │ " │ " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 3 │ " │ Luis, Wilton │ " │ " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 4 │ Corporal │ Strutt, M. M. P. │ " │ " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 5 │ Trooper │ Saunders, Charles │ " │ " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 6 │ │ O'Connor, Joseph │ Prospector, escaped │ " │ │ │ │ │ from Filibusi │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 7 │ Trooper │ Stracey, A. H. │ Selous' patrol │ 28th March │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 8 │ " │ Munzberg, │ " │ " │ │ │ │ Berthold │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 9 │ A. N. C. │ Carter, Samuel │ Shiloh patrol │ 29th March │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 10 │ Serg.- │ Haden, Thomas │ " (Afric. Corps) │ " │ │ │ Maj. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ " │ │ 11 │ Trooper │ Celliers, John │ Shiloh patrol (died │ " │ │ │ │ │ in hospital, 16th │ │ │ │ │ │ May 1896) │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 12 │ " │ Anderson, August │ Shiloh patrol │ " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 13 │ Lieut.- │ Gifford, Hon. │ Fonseca's Farm │ 6th April │ │ │ Col. │ M. R. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 14 │ Captain │ Lumsden, J. W. │ Fonseca's Farm │ " │ │ │ │ │ (died in hospital, │ │ │ │ │ │ 10th April 1896) │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 15 │Lieutenant│ Hulbert │ Fonseca's Farm │ " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 16 │ Trooper │ Eatwell │ " │ " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 17 │ " │ Fielding │ " │ " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 18 │ " │ Walker │ " │ " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 19 │ M. O. │ Levy, Dr. J. │ Gwanda patrol │ 10th April │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 20 │ Trooper │ Harvey, F. J. │ " │ " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 21 │ " │ Whitlow, Chas. │ " │ " │ │ │ │ Ern. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 22 │ " │ Stowell, W. │ " │ " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 23 │ " │ Ormsby, O. │ " │ " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 24 │ Trooper │ Ferreira, J. │ Gwanda patrol │ 10th April │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 25 │ " │ De Villiers, │ " │ " │ │ │ │ Isaac James │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 26 │ " │ Wilson, J. │ " │ " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 27 │ " │ Collins, C. │ " │ " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 28 │ " │ Ashley, W. │ " │ " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 29 │ " │ Kramer, S. │ " │ " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 30 │ " │ Blackwell, J. │ " │ " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 31 │ " │ Wallace, E. C. │ " │ " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 32 │ " │ Farrell, E. │ " │ " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 33 │ " │ Swift, Henry │ Gwanda patrol (died │ " │ │ │ │ │ in hospital, 14th │ │ │ │ │ │ April 1896) │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 34 │ " │ Harker, George, │ Local patrol │ 17th April │ │ │ │ B.F.F. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 35 │ " │ Ter. Blanche │ Macfarlane's patrol │ 19th " │ │ │ │ Esiah Michael, │ │ │ │ │ │ Afric. Corps. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 36 │ Captain │ Grey, George │ Bisset's patrol │ 22nd April │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 37 │Lieutenant│ Hook, Godfrey │ " │ " │ │ │ │ Blair │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 38 │ " │ Crewe, F. H. │ Bisset's patrol │ " │ │ │ │ │ (Grey's Scouts) │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 39 │ Corporal │ Wise, George │ Bisset's patrol │ " │ │ │ │ │ (Grey's Scouts) │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 40 │Lieutenant│ Lyons, M. H., │ Macfarlane's patrol │ 25th April │ │ │ │ Hosp. Corps │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 41 │ T.S.M. │ Botha, Joh. │ Macfarlane's patrol │ " │ │ │ │ Christian │ (Afric. Corps) │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 42 │ Trooper │ Howell, Thos. │ Macfarlane's patrol │ " │ │ │ │ Easton │ (Grey's Scouts) │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 43 │ " │ Price, F. H. │ Macfarlane's patrol │ " │ │ │ │ Talbot │ (Maxim detachment) │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 44 │ " │ Appleyard, Edward │ Macfarlane's patrol │ " │ │ │ │ │ (Dawson's Scouts). │ │ │ │ │ │ Died in hospital │ │ │ │ │ │ same evening │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 45 │ " │ Lovatt, Ronald │ Macfarlane's patrol │ " │ │ │ │ Venables │ (Grey's Scouts). │ │ │ │ │ │ Died in hospital, │ │ │ │ │ │ 29th April 1896 │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 46 │ " │ Beatty-Pownall, │ Laing's Camp, │ 2nd May │ │ │ │ W. C. │ Belingwe │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 47 │ " │ Hamilton, H. Rice │ Unattached, │ 25th May │ │ │ │ │ Plumer's patrol │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 48 │ Sergeant │ Peacock, Arthur │ Plumer's patrol (B │ " │ │ │ │ W. │ Troop) │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 49 │ Trooper │ Slowey, W. John │ Plumer's patrol (A │ " │ │ │ │ │ Troop) │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 50 │ " │ Beinedell, Pieter │ Napier's Gwelo │ 22nd May │ │ │ │ │ patrol (L Troop) │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 51 │ " │ Niemand, Jac. P. │ Napier's Gwelo │ " │ │ │ │ Joh. │ patrol (Mangwe │ │ │ │ │ │ detachment) │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 52 │ Trooper │ Geldenhuis, Elias │ Napier's Gwelo │ 22nd May │ │ │ │ Jac. │ patrol (Mangwe │ │ │ │ │ │ detachment) │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 53 │ Corporal │ Combrink, Jacobus,│ Spreckley's patrol │ 6th June │ │ │ │ Afric. Corps │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 54 │ Trooper │ Davey, Cecil, │ Spreckley's patrol. │ " │ │ │ │ A Troop, B.F.F. │ Serious gun-shot, │ │ │ │ │ │ right hip since │ │ │ │ │ │ amputated │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 55 │ Sergeant │ Hamilton, Geo. │ Spreckley's patrol. │ " │ │ │ │ Michael, R.V.H. │ Assegai wound │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 56 │ T.S.M. │ Morrison, S., │ Macfarlane's Gwaai │ 8th June │ │ │ │ 8 Troop, M.R.F. │ patrol. Bullet │ │ │ │ │ │ wound on head │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 57 │ Trooper │ Clark, A Troop, │ Macfarlane's Gwaai │ " │ │ │ │ Gifford's Horse │ patrol. Slight │ │ │ │ │ │ wound │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 58 │ T.S.M. │ Blatherwick, S. │ Macfarlane's Gwaai │ " │ │ │ │ M., M.R.F. │ patrol │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 59 │ Trooper │ Hill, John H., │ Thabas Mamba. │ 6th July │ │ │ │ A Squad, M.R.F. │ Dangerously │ │ │ │ │ │ wounded; died same │ │ │ │ │ │ day │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 60 │ " │ Meyer, George, │ Thabas Mamba │ " │ │ │ │ A Squad, M.R.F. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 61 │ " │ Cooper, David E., │ " │ " │ │ │ │ A Squad, M.R.F. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 62 │ " │ Dupreez, Arthur, │ " │ " │ │ │ │ M.R.F. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 63 │ " │ Dunn, George, │ " │ " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 64 │ " │ Potgieter, L., │ Belingwe patrol │ 26th June │ │ │ │ Belingwe F.F. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 65 │Lieutenant│ Taylor, Scouts, │ Matopos, Babian's │ 20th July │ │ │ │ M.R.F. │ impi │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 66 │ Sergeant │ Halkett, C. H., │ Matopos, Inugu │ " │ │ │ │ Belingwe F.F. │ engagement │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 67 │ " │ Eadio, Malcolm, │ Matopos, Inugu │ " │ │ │ │ A Troop, M.M.P. │ engagement │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 68 │ Trooper │ Dick, Duncan, │ Matopos, Inugu │ " │ │ │ │ Belingwe F.F. │ engagement │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 69 │ " │ Judge, T., │ Matopos, Inugu │ " │ │ │ │ Belingwe F.F. │ engagement │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 70 │ " │ Toulson, John │ Matopos, Inugu │ " │ │ │ │ George │ engagement │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 71 │ " │ Parker Parker, │ Severe bullet │ " │ │ │ │ F.F. │ wound, thigh │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 72 │ " │ Morgan, Charles │ Matopos, Inugu │ " │ │ │ │ Oglethorpe A., │ engagement (died │ │ │ │ │ M.M.P. │ 23rd July, buried │ │ │ │ │ │ at Usher's Farm) │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 73 │ " │ Stewart, A. M., │ Matopos, Inugu │ " │ │ │ │ Belingwe F.F. │ fight │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 74 │ " │ Sell, Charles A. │ " │ " │ │ │ │ T., M.M.P. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 75 │ " │ Millar, Fredk., │ " │ " │ │ │ │ M.M.P. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 76 │ Trooper │ Roger, Scott, │ Matopos Inugu fight │ 20th July │ │ │ │ Belingwe F.F. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 77 │ " │ Wilson, Campbell, │ Hope Fountain │ 12th " │ │ │ │ A Squad, M.R.F. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 78 │ " │ Cheres, Laurence, │} Nicholson's }│ │ │ │ │ M.M.P. │} patrol, Inugu }│ 25th July │ │ │ │ │} gorge (died and }│ │ │ 79 │ " │ Bern, William, │} buried at }│ │ │ │ │ M.M.P. │} Usher's Camp, }│ │ │ │ │ │} 27th July) }│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 80 │ Trooper │ Heathfield, │ Nicholson's patrol, │ " │ │ │ │ Richard, Jr., │ Inugu gorge │ │ │ │ │ M.M.P. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 81 │ " │ Bell, James, │ Nicholson's patrol, │ " │ │ │ │ M.M.P. │ Inugu gorge │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 82 │ Corporal │ Porter, Joseph │ Nicholson's patrol, │ " │ │ │ │ Kirk, M.M.P. │ Inugu gorge (died │ │ │ │ │ │ in Bulawayo │ │ │ │ │ │ hospital, 3rd │ │ │ │ │ │ August) │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 83 │Lieutenant│ Norton, Frederick │ Taylor's patrol, │ 27th July │ │ │ │ Cunningham, │ Sobisi │ │ │ │ │ M.M.P. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 84 │ Captain │ Lloyd, Chas. P., │ Inyandi engagement │ 3rd Aug. │ │ │ │ Engineer Train │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 85 │ Trooper │ Little, Edward │ Gun accident, │ " │ │ │ │ Runnell, M.R.F. │ Spargo's (died 3rd │ │ │ │ │ │ August) │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 86 │ " │ Champion, William │ Gun accident, │ " │ │ │ │ Lewis, M.R.F. │ Spargo │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 87 │ " │ Silberhazen, │ " │ " │ │ │ │ George, M.R.F. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 88 │ " │ Macdougall, Lorne │ Fort-Spargo │ 5th Aug. │ │ │ │ Somerlea │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 89 │Lieutenant│ M'Culloch, Robert │ Sikombo engagement │ " │ │ │ │ H., Royal Art. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 90 │ " │ Frazer, Norman │ " │ " │ │ │ │ Warden, West │ │ │ │ │ │ Riding Regt. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 91 │ Captain │ Fowler, Charles │ " │ " │ │ │ │ H., M.R.F. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 92 │ Staff- │ Josephs, William, │ " │ " │ │ │ Sergt.- │ M.R.F. │ │ │ │ │ Major. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 93 │ Sergt.- │ Dumeresq, │ " │ " │ │ │ Maj. │ Rawlings, M.R.F. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 94 │ Sergeant │ Brabant, Arthur │ " │ " │ │ │ │ E., M.R.F. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 95 │ Corporal │ Turnbull, │ " │ " │ │ │ │ Richard, M.R.F. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 96 │ Trooper │ Currie, William, │ " │ " │ │ │ │ M.R.F. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 97 │ " │ Holmes, Evelyn, │ " │ " │ │ │ │ M.R.F. │ (Died 9th August) │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 98 │ " │ Gordon, Thomas, │ Sikombo engagement │ " │ │ │ │ M.M.P. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 99 │Lieutenant│ Howard, Hon. H. │ " │ " │ │ │ │ │ (Robertson's Cape │ │ │ │ │ │ Boys) │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │100 │ Captain │ Windley │ Robertson's Cape │ " │ │ │ │ │ Boys │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └――――┴――――――――――┴――――――─――――――――――――┴―――――─―――――――――――――――┴―――――─――――――┘

APPENDIX D

HEADQUARTERS INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT, SALISBURY, _August 1896_.

List of persons murdered in Mashunaland during the recent native insurrection.

┌―――――――――――――――――――┬――――――――――――┬――――――――――――┬―――――――――――――――─――――――――┐ │ │ │ Date │ │ │ Names. │ District. │ (1896). │ Details. │ ├―――――――――――――――――――┼――――――――――――┼――――――――――――┼――――――――――――――――――─―――――┤ │ │ │ │ │ │ Birkett, W. │ Salisbury │ │ Body supposed to be │ │ │ │ │ his recovered on 5th │ │ │ │ │ August. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Kentenge, Frank │ " │ 18th June │ Killed at the Gwibi │ │ │ │ │ River. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Wills, M.M.P. │ " │ " │ " " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Loeford, S. │ " │ 15th June │ Killed at Beatrice │ │ │ │ │ Mine. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Tait, James │ " │ " │ " " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Van Rooyen │ " │ 16th June │ Killed at Hartley Road.│ │ │ │ │ │ │ Fourie, Benj. │ " │ " │ " " │ │ John │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Norton Family │ " │ 17th June │ Killed at Norton's │ │ (3), Joseph, │ │ │ Farm, on the Hungani │ │ Mrs., and infant │ │ │ River. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Fairweather, Miss │ " │ " │ Killed at Norton's │ │ │ │ │ Farm, on the Hungani │ │ │ │ │ River. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Alexander, H. │ " │ " │ Killed at Norton's │ │ │ │ │ Farm, on the Hungani │ │ │ │ │ River. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Grahener, H. │ " │ " │ Killed at Norton's │ │ │ │ │ Farm, on the Hungani │ │ │ │ │ River. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Harvey, J. L. │ " │} │ │ │ │ │} │ │ │ Dixon, James │ " │} │ │ │ │ │} │ │ │ Briscoe │ " │} │ │ │ │ │} │ No particulars of │ │ Hite, W. D. │ " │} │ murders; but six or │ │ │ │} │ seven weeks having │ │ Dowenbrock, R. │ " │} │ elapsed without any │ │ │ │} │ news of these │ │ Basson, Nicholas │ " │} │ persons, and who were │ │ │ │} │ known to have been │ │ Joubert, J. │ " │} │ surrounded by rebels │ │ │ │} │ at the time of the │ │ Gray, Harry │ " │} │ rising, it is beyond │ │ │ │} │ all doubt that they │ │ Curtis, J. H. │ " │} │ are dead. │ │ (surveyor) │ │} │ │ │ │ │} │ │ │ Saunders │ " │} │ │ │ │ │} │ │ │ Calcott │ " │} │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Cass, J. │ Mazoe │ 18th June │ Killed near Salvation │ │ │ │ │ Army Camp. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Faull, W. │ Mazoe │ 18th June │ Killed near Salvation │ │ │ │ │ Army Camp. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Dickenson, J., │ " │ " │ Killed near Salvation │ │ Mining │ │ │ Army Camp. │ │ Commissioner │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Routledge, J. J. │ " │ " │ Killed near Telegraph │ │ │ │ │ Station │ │ │ │ │ (telegraphist). │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Blakiston, J. J. │ " │ " │ Killed near Telegraph │ │ │ │ │ Station │ │ │ │ │ (telegraphist). │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Pollard, H. H. │ " │ ... │ Killed near Mount │ │ │ │ │ Hampden. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Nunesty, C. │ " │ ... │ Missing. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Fletcher, John. │ " │ ... │ " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Salthouse │ " │ ... │ " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Smith │ " │ ... │ " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Short, Henry │ Charter │ ... │ Killed. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Bester, Mrs. │ " │ ... │ " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Smith │ " │ ... │ " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Moore, John │ " │ ... │ Dunstan estate; killed │ │ │ │ │ Umtala Road; body │ │ │ │ │ recovered 3rd August. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Milton (transport │ " │ ... │ Killed at Homestead │ │ rider) │ │ │ Store; body found on │ │ │ │ │ 3rd August. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Graham, Harry │ " │ │ Killed at Homestead │ │ │ │ │ Store; body found on │ │ │ │ │ 3rd August. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Weyers Family │ " │ ... │ Bodies recovered. │ │ (4), Jan, wife, │ │ │ │ │ and 2 children │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Bekers, C. D. │ " │ ... │ Killed at Campbell's │ │ │ │ │ Store. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Campbell, J. D. │ " │ ... │ " " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Phillips │ " │ ... │ Killed at Graham's │ │ │ │ │ Store. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Law, Horace, │ " │ 20th June │ Killed near Campbell's │ │ M.M.P. │ │ │ Store. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Tucker, M.M.P. │ " │ " │ " " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Dickenson, A. J. │ " │ ... │ Killed near Law's │ │ │ │ │ Store. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ White, James │ " │ 7th July │ Killed at Marandellas │ │ (Willoughby's │ │ │ Mission Store. │ │ consolidated) │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Bremner, Lieut. │ " │ ... │ Killed near │ │ │ │ │ Marandellas. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Eyre, Herbert H., │ Lo Magondi │ 21st June │ Killed at Umvokwe │ │ M.M.P. │ │ │ Mountains. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Young, Arthur │ " │ " │ Killed at Umvokwe │ │ Liston, M.M.P. │ │ │ Mountains. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Gambier, J. C. │ " │ 22nd June │ Killed at Menin River. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Boijes, W. H. │ " │ " │ " " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Drysdale │ " │ " │ " " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Mynhardt (native │ " │ 21st June │ Killed at Mynhardt's │ │ commissioner) │ │ │ Camp. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Shooter, F. │ " │ " │ " " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Dougherty, J. │ " │ 31st May │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Watkins, Charles │ " │ ... │ Medical officer; │ │ H. │ │ │ killed at Hinnan's │ │ │ │ │ Store. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Jameson, Arthur │ Lo Magondi │ ... │ Mining Commissioner. │ │ John │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ M'Gowan J. } │ │ │{ Were at Jameson's │ │ } │ " │ ... │{ Camp and have not │ │ Hodgson, A. } │ │ │{ been heard of. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Bent, F. L. │ " │ ... │ Missing. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Box, James │ " │ ... │ " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Box, Duncan │ " │ ... │ " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Kerr, Carr, or │ " │ ... │ " United States │ │ Care │ │ │ man. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Ireland │ " │ ... │ " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Hermann, Louis │ Abercorn │ 21st June │ Killed at Macombis. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Tupnell, W. │ " │ " " │ " " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Steel, J. │ " │ " " │ " " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Austin, F. │ " │ " " │ " " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Smith, Newman H. │ " │ ... │ Missing. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Horn, J. │ " │ ... │ " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Jansen │ " │ ... │ " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Steele, W. │ " │ ... │ " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Cronchly, J. │ " │ ... │ " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ North, A. │ " │ ... │ " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Hawkins │ " │ ... │ " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Hornby │ " │ ... │ " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Gibson, J. G. │ " │ ... │ " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Sagus │ " │ ... │ " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Newman │ " │ ... │ " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Hermann, Harry │ " │ ... │ " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Ruping (native │ " │ 28th June │ Killed by his native │ │ commissioner) │ │ │ police at Tahoskos. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Rhapiro, Renten │ " │ 21st " │ Shot at Abercorn Store.│ │ │ │ │ │ │ Fletcher │ " │ " " │ " " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Eaton, J. │ " │ 19th " │ Killed at Chipadgus. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Thurgood, A. │ Hartley │ 15th " │ │ │ │ Hill │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Hepworth, J. C. │ " │ 17th " │ Killed at Wallace's │ │ │ │ │ farm. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Wallace, "Friday" │ " │ " " │ " " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Moonie, D. E. │ " │ 15th " │ Killed at Mashingontis.│ │ (native │ │ │ │ │ commissioner) │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Hunt, A. J. │ " │ " " │ " " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Skell │ " │ " " │ " " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Purser, A. L. │ " │ 19th " │ Killed near Hunyani │ │ │ │ │ River. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Carrick Edward │ " │ " " │ " " │ │ (mining │ │ │ │ │ commissioner) │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Wickslorn, A. │ │ │ Killed while │ │ │ │ │ prospecting near │ │ │ │ │ Hartley. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Nelson │ │ ... │ Killed while │ │ │ │ │ prospecting near │ │ │ │ │ Hartley. │ └――――─────――――――――――┴――――――─―――――┴―――――─――――――┴―――――――――───―――――─――――――┘

The following were killed in action:—

┌―――――――――――――――――――┬――――――――――――┬――――――――――――┬―――――――――――――――─――――――――┐ │ │ │ Date │ │ │ Names. │ District. │ (1896). │ Details. │ ├―――――――――――――――――――┼――――――――――――┼――――――――――――┼――――――――――――――――――─―――――┤ │ │ │ │ │ │ M'Geer, C. M. │ ... │ 20th June │ Mazoe patrol. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Van Staden, H. J. │ ... │ " " │ " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Jacobs │ ... │ " " │ " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Dillon │ ... │ " " │ " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Mitchell, J. │ ... │ ... │ Wounded first Hartley │ │ Bentley │ │ │ patrol; died 27th │ │ │ │ │ June. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Stevens, Charles │ │ 25th " │ Killed Cheshwasha │ │ Trelawney │ │ │ patrol. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Gwilkin, W. H. │ │ 20th July │ Killed second Hartley │ │ │ │ │ patrol. │

The following were wounded in action:—

│ Grey, Dr. │ ... │ ... │ First Hartley patrol. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Bottemley, │ ... │ ... │ " " │ │ Trumpeter (Natal │ │ │ │ │ Contingent) │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Finucase, E. │ Salisbury │ ... │ " " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Burton, Arthur │ " │ ... │ Mazoe patrol at Jwito │ │ │ │ │ River. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Hendrikz, C. │ " │ ... │ " " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Neibuhr │ " │ ... │ " " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Ogilvie │ " │ ... │ " " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Berry │ " │ ... │ " " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Judson, Captain │ " │ ... │ " " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Cartwright, │ Charter │ ... │ │ │ Trumpeter, M.M.P.│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Van de Merwe │ │ ... │ At Hunyani. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Fitzpatrick │ │ ... │ Beal's column on │ │ │ │ │ second Hartley patrol.│ │ │ │ │ │ │ Arnott │ Salisbury │ ... │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Kerr │ " │ ... │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Lee │ ... │ ... │ White's column in │ │ │ │ │ foraging patrol. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Fraser │ ... │ ... │ Beal's column. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Brown │ ... │ ... │ " │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Millar │ ... │ ... │ " │ │ │ │ │ │ └――――─────――――――――――┴――――――─―――――┴―――――─――――――┴―――――――――───―――――─――――――┘

APPENDIX E

For the following statistics I am indebted to the courtesy of Colonel Heyman, the President of the Compensation Board, which up to 15th August 1896 had paid claims for the following items:—

GROWING CROPS DESTROYED

Mealies 896 acres Kafir corn 270 " Oats 70½ " Barley 17 " Potatoes 67 " Wheat 7 " Various 151½ " ――――― Total 1,479 acres ═════

TREES DESTROYED

Fruit trees 1,092 Gum trees 290 Various trees 19,957 ―――――― Total 21,339 ══════

DOMESTIC ANIMALS CARRIED OFF OR KILLED

Imported bulls 59 Kafir bulls 58 Oxen 4,440 Cows and heifers 9,592 Mixed cattle 7,394 Sheep and goats 5,114 Pigs 842 Horses 33 Mules 6 Donkeys 548 Imported fowls 4,348 Matabele 7,133 Ducks and geese 514 Turkeys 58 ―――――― Total 40,139 ══════

No. of homesteads destroyed 150 ═══

FARMING AND AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS STOLEN OR DESTROYED

Ploughs 112 Harrows 30 Carts, various 15 Waggons 85 Scotch carts 52 Picks and shovels 2,349 Cream separators 5 Churns 19 Sundries 5,121 including mining ――――― implements Total 7,788 ═════

_Note._

Up to 15th August 371 claims had been adjudicated upon.

The full amount claimed in settlement of these claims amounted to £166,829 : 19 : 9.

The amount awarded in settlement of the same being £111,439 : 10 : 11.

The total number of claims filed amounted on 15th August to 637, the total amount of compensation claimed for which amounted to £266,237 : 19 : 4.

Since 15th August other claims have been filed bringing the total number up to about 800 for losses sustained in Matabeleland alone.

The total amount of compensation which will be paid by the Chartered Company in settlement of these claims will, it is thought, reach the sum of £230,000.

APPENDIX F

Schedule showing the number of Native Policemen in the employ of the Government throughout Matabeleland, at the time of the outbreak of the rebellion, and the proportion of the same which remained loyal in the different districts.

┌――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――┬――――――――┬―――──────┬――――――――――――┐ │ Station. │ Loyal. │ Rebels. │ Doubtful. │ ├――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――┼――――――――┼―――――――――┼――――――─―――――┤ │ Headquarters 60 │ 45 │ ... │ 15 │ │ Bulawayo district 30 │ 15 │ 15 │ ... │ │ Bulilima " 30 │ 28 │ 2 │ ... │ │ Umzingwani " 30 │ 11 │ 19 │ ... │ │ Mangwe " 30 │ 6 │ 24 │ ... │ │ Usiza " 30 │ 2 │ 28 │ ... │ │ Gwanda " 30 │ 18 │ ... │ 12 │ │ Belingwe " 30 │ Nil. │ 25 │ 5 │ │ Gwelo " 30 │ Nil. │ 30 │ ... │ │ Bubi " 30 │ 1 │ 29 │ ... │ ├――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――┼――――――――┼―――――――――┼――――――─―――――┤ │ Total 330 │ 126 │ 172 │ 32 │ └――――─────―――――――――――――――─―――――┴―――――─――┴―――――――――┴──―――─――――――┘

These figures must be taken as only approximate, as it is known that three or four of the police were killed by the rebels, and it is doubtful whether others did not meet the same fate. It will not be known exactly what number of the police were murdered by the rebels until the war is over.

For these statistics I am indebted to Mr. H. Morrison Jackson, the native commissioner, who was living on my company's property of Essexvale.

F. C. SELOUS.

APPENDIX G

GOLD OUTPUT

┌―――――――――――――――――――┬――――――――――─┬―――――――――──────┬――――――────――――――┐ │ │ │ │ Approx. output │ │ Reef. │ District. │ Tons crushed. │ in ounces. │ ├―――――――――――――――――――┼―――――――――──┼―─―――――――――――――┼―――────―――─―――――┤ │ │ │ │ │ │ Alice │ ... │ 2 │ 7 │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Auriga │ ... │ 41 │ 49 │ │ │ │ │ │ │ African │ ... │ 150 │ 97 │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Birthday │ ... │ 100 │ 104 │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Beatrice │ ... │ 100 │ 563 │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Bonanza │ ... │ 201 │ 80 │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Cotapaxi │ ... │ 4857 │ 2328 │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Congress on Hill │ ... │ 20 │ 15½ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Concession │ ... │ 4 │ 7½ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Dickens │ ... │ 1090 │ 1084 │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Golden Quarry │ ... │ 23 │ 96 │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Golden Horse Shoe │ ... │ 100 │ 71 │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Glendarra │ ... │ 3 │ 7¼ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Hidden Secret and │ ... │ 120 │ 60 │ │ Rob Roy │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Heathfield │ ... │ 2 │ 20½ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Inez │ ... │ 40 │ 97 │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Just in Time │ ... │ ¾ │ 27 │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Lion │ ... │ 2 │ 5½ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Matchless East │ ... │ 20 │ 12 │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Matchless West │ ... │ 12 │ 20 │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Natal │ ... │ 6 │ 7 │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Old Chum │ ... │ 20 │ 49 │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Nil Desperandum │ ... │ 2 │ 2½ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Panhalanga │ ... │ 50 │ 50 │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Pioneer │ ... │ 18 │ 10¾ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Standard No. 2 │ ... │ 278 │ 222 │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Shepherds │ ... │ 6 │ 10½ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Salamander │ ... │ 799 │ 439½ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Shankaru │ ... │ 25 │ 75 │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Vesuvius │ ... │ 40 │ 90 │ │ │ ├―――――――――――――――┼―――――――――──―――――┤ │ │ │ 8131¾ │ 5707½ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Ancient Ruins │ ... │ ... │ 357 │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Alluvial │ Manica │ ... │ 84½ │ └―――――――――――――――――――┴―――――――――──┴―─―――――――――――――┴―――────―――─―――――┘

For these statistics I am indebted to the courtesy of Mr. Arnold, Secretary of the Chamber of Mines.

F. C. SELOUS.

INDEX

Abenzantsi, 26, 71

Aborigines' Protection Society, 87

Adams, Col. Gould, joins Dr. Jameson, 45

African Bond Association, 249

Africander Corps, 59, 105, 144, 147, 200, 242; courage and skill of, 117, 118, 125; brilliant charge by, at the Umguza, 173; complimented by Lord Grey, 240

Ammunition, abundance of, among the Matabele, 49

Anderson, Mr., murder of, 25

Appleyard, Trooper, death of, 174

Armstrong, Major, 114, 141, 142, 148

Artillery, defective condition of, 55

Axes, natives borrow, 23

Babian, 169

Baden-Powell, Major, 239

Baker, Mr., death of, 125

Banks-Wright, Lieut., 231

Banyubi tribe, 75

Barnard, Commandant, 170

Barthelemy, Father, 195

Baxter, Trooper, bravery of, 164

Beal, Col., in command of Salisbury relief force, 186; forms laager near Bulawayo, 222; joins Col. Spreckley, 223; returns with his force to Salisbury, 235

Bechuanaland Protectorate, 254

Belingwe, laager formed at, 135

Bembisi, 101

Benson, Mr., 179

Bentley, Mr., murder of, 33

Biscoe, Lieut., 147

Bisset, Capt., 127, 133, 156

Blick, Mr., American scout, narrow escape of, 201

Blöcker, Herr, 11, 23, 28, 74, 79, 169, 216

Boer element in Rhodesia, 241 _et seq._

Boggie, Lieut., patrol under, 175

Boyce, Mr., 79, 80

Brand, Capt., 59, 117, 119, 125, 223

Brown, Capt. Howard, 144

"Buccaneers," 108

Bulawayo, 4; in 1895, 5; lowness of food supply in, 56; critical position of, 57; total forces in, at beginning of rebellion, 58, 59; laager formed at, 90; Matabele scare at, 91; rebels hanged at 137; Matabele advance on, 144; arrival of Lord Grey at, 179

_Bulawayo Chronicle_, quoted, 188

Bulawayo Field Force, the, 58, 218; disbanded, 239; Lord Grey's address to, 239, 240

Burnham, Mr., the American scout, 176, 195, 222; narrow escape of, 201

Button, Trooper, 202

Campbell's Store, 103

Cape Boys, excellent services rendered by, 59

Carnegie, Rev. Mr., 117

Carrington, Major-Gen. Sir F., 58, 60, 239; reaches Bulawayo and takes over command of forces in Matabeleland, 217; despatches three patrols against rebels, 221

Carter, Mr., 100, 102

Case, Mr., killed at Inyati, 103

Cattle, carried off by Matabele, 26, 61; recapture of, 62, 63; used as a decoy by the enemy, 206; large herd captured by Col. Spreckley, 214

Cattle-confiscation question, 7; its final settlement, 9

Celliers, Mr., 105, 107; death of, 108

Chartered Company, the, natives under rule of, 7, 71; and the cattle-confiscation question, 7; and the revocation of the charter, 256; the white population of Rhodesia under, 257; Bulawayo Chamber of Commerce expresses confidence in, 258

Chibi, loyalty of, 238

Chilimanzi, loyalty of, 238

Colenbrander, Mr., 59, 137, 251

Colonists, their difficulties during the rebellion, 43; their unpreparedness on outbreak, 53, 56

Compensation Board, 255

Comployer, Mr., murder of, 96

Cooke, Mr., 108

Coolies, murder of, near Bulawayo, 177, 178

Coope, Capt., 219; gallant behaviour of, 221

Corke, Mr. S. H., killed at Inyati, 103

Crewe, Lieut. F., 127; miraculous escape of, 165

Crewe's farm at Redbank, 220

Cumming's store, laager formed at, 38; relief of, 40

Cunningham family, massacre of the, 35

Currie, Mr., 96

_Daily Graphic_, "Young Tradesman's" letter to the, 137

Davey, Trooper, wounded, 223

Dawe's store, 168

Dawson, Capt., 59, 127, 176; leaves Bulawayo with patrol, 110

Dawson's Fort, 179

Dawson's store, at Amanzi Minyama, 119; on the Umzingwani river, 18, 79, 118

Donovan, Tim, killed, 104

Duncan, Mr., 38, 146

Dutch in South Africa, 244 _et seq._

Dutch Reformed Church, 249

Dutchmen, murder of two, 168

Eagle Mine, 94, 96

Eagleson, Mr., murder of, 25

Edkins, Mr., murder of, 33

Edkins' store, 85, 112, 118

Egerton, Hon. Tatton, M.P., 96, 198, 212

Elibaini Hills, 107

Elliott, Mr., 111

Edmunds, Mr., 28, 93

Essexvale, 6; life at, 10; progress of the insurrection at, 31; cattle left in charge of the natives, 69; burned down, and cattle carried off, 69, 216

Europeans, first murders of, 32, 33; evils ascribed to influence of, 51

Famine, apprehensions of, 18, 56

Farley, Mr. F. C., narrow escape of, 225

Farquhar, Mr. Mowbray, 96, 198

Ferreira, Mr., 125

"Fig Tree," 111; fort erected at, 140

Fincham, Mr., 104

Fletcher, Mr., 74

Fonseca's farm, 129; engagement at, 130

Food supply, a plentiful, the sinews of war to a savage race, 198

Forbes, Mr. Gordon, narrow escape of, 220

_Fortnightly Review_, 243

Foster, Mr., murder of, 25

Fourie family, massacre of the, 209, 212

Frost, Lieut., 113, 205

Fynn, Capt., 128, 130

Fynn, Mr. H. P., sworn statement of, 35, 36; warns Capt. Laing of the native rising, 135; his faithful servant, 234

Fynn's farm, 231, 232

Gambo, detention of, in Bulawayo, 52; diminished influence of, 52; loyalty of his followers, 52

Ganyana murders one of the native police, 22

Gifford, Hon. Maurice R., 29, 38, 39; letters from, 41, 42; his prediction regarding the insurrection, 43; patrol under his command leaves Bulawayo, 127; engagement at Fonseca's farm, 130; wounded, 133; patrol returns to Bulawayo, 133

Gifford's Horse, 127, 200, 236; excellent services of, 221

Gold output, see Appendix G

Gordon, Mr., saved by native police, 116

Government House at Bulawayo, 57

Gracey, Mr., murder of, 96

Gradwell, Capt., 231

Graham, Mr., native commissioner, 100; killed at Inyati, 103, 231

Graham's store, laager at, 190

Grainger's stores, 118, 119, 121

Greeff, Frikky, accident to, 201

Greek trader, murder of a, 116

Grenfell, Lieut., 28, 77, 93, 113, 156, 168, 169; his account of the fight at the Umguza, 170-175; takes over Fort Marquand, 176

Grey, Capt., narrow escape of, 93; returns to Bulawayo to give warning of rising, 95; leaves for the Tekwe, 97; his timely arrival, 98, 203, 233

Grey, Lord, arrival of, in Bulawayo, 179; his address to the Bulawayo Field Force, 239

Grey's Scouts, 58, 97, 127, 145, 147, 200, 223, 236; their gallantry, 165

Grootboom, John, narrow escape of, 158; wounded, 173

Gum-trees, planting of, 11

Gwanda patrol leaves Bulawayo, 117; Lieut. Webb's account of, 117; arrives at Nicholson's camp, 119; attacked by the Matabele, 122; narrowly escapes annihilation, 122; returns to Bulawayo, 124; gallant conduct of, 125

Gwelo, 96, 97

Haden, Mr. Thomas, 102

Halsted, Capt., 139, 141, 142

Halsted Fort, 142, 180

Hamilton, Mr., wounded, 219

Hamilton, Trooper, wounded, 224

Hanley, Sub-Inspector, 100; killed at Inyati, 103

Harker, Mr., wounded, 146

Hartley, Mr., 184

Hays, Trooper, shot dead, 220

Heany, Mr. Maurice, 1

Helm, Rev. Mr., 6; views on the cattle question, 7, 8

Henderson, Mr., 105; gallant conduct of, 207

Hocking, Mr., 37

Holland, Mr., 120, 125

Holm's farm, 128

Hook, Lieut., 149; severely wounded, 164

Hope Fountain, mission station at, 6, 53; destroyed, 143

Horses, scarcity of, 54; number in possession of Government at outbreak of rebellion, 54; their uselessness in the Matopo Hills, 78

Hosking, Mr. John, sworn statement of, 37

Howard, Lieut., 180, 185, 205

Hulbert, Lieut., wounded, 133

Hurford, Mr. G., killed at Inyati, 103

Hurlstone, Mr., murder of, 100, 196

Impembisi river, 232

Ingram, Mr., the American scout, 176

Insiza district, rising general in, 40

Insiza river, two columns despatched to, 198; large quantity of stores discovered near, 199, 213; running fight and casualties at, 201, 202; enemy found in great force at, 204; laager formed near, 208; many kraals burned in valley of, 213

"Intabas a Mamba," 233, 234, 239

Intuntini, burning of kraal of, 70

Inxnozan, raid by, 69

Inyamanda, son of Lo Bengula, 143

Inyati, massacre of whites at, 103; bodies of murdered men found at, 231; mission house and church destroyed, 232

Ivers, Mr., murder of, 34

"Jackal," Makalaka chief, interview with, 112

Jackson, Mr., 12; distrusts the native police, 14, 18; rumoured murder of, 71; arrives at Bulawayo, 92

Jameson, Dr., 12; forces under, in 1893, 43; Matabele attacks on, 44, 194; beneficial results of his campaign, 46

Jarvis, Mr. Weston, 95, 197, 205, 222

Jenkins store, 100

Jobson, Mr., 122, 125

Judge, Mr., 86

Khama, his loss of cattle through the rinderpest, 225

Khami river, fort built at, 177

Knapp, Capt., 218; bravery of, 221

Labouchere, Mr., 36, 108, 137, 193, 226, 227, 236, 256

Laing, Capt., 135, 237; his successful engagements with the rebels, 238

Langabi, Matabele Induna, 116

Langford, Dr. and Mrs., murder of, 40, 214, 215

Lanning, Mr., native commissioner, 230

Lee's store, 93; burnt down, 194

Lemon, Mr., murder of, 214

Leopard, adventure with a, 3

Liebert, Mr., 35

Lo Bengula, 4, 13, 44, 45, 236; his belief in the Umlimo, 16, 143

Locusts, plague of, 51

Long, "Texas," 164

Loots, Mr., 125

Loyal Colonists' League, 248

Luck, Capt., 141

Lumsden, Capt., 113, 127, 130; death of, 133

Lyons, Mr., 86

Maatjiumschlopay, Matabele attack on, 147

Mabukitwani, fort ordered to be built at, 146

Macfarlane, Capt., 105, 133; expedition under, 147-154; despatched with force to the Umguza, 221

Mackenzie, Trooper Kenneth, killed, 130

M'Kisa's kraal, 127

Madden, Patrick, 103

Maddocks, Mr., murder of, 37, 135

Mazhlabanyan, a Matabele guide, 72; fidelity of, 79

Mainwaring, Capt., patrol under, 166

Maiyaisa, rebel chief, 137, 140

Makalakas, their peaceable and industrious character, 71, 111; interview with principal induna, 112

Makupikupeni police station, 72

Mangwe laager, 114

Manica, 256

Marquand Fort, construction of, 169

Marzwe's kraal, Matabele raid on, 182; women, cattle, etc., belonging to, recaptured by Obas, 184

Mashunaland, news of rising in, 235; Umlimos responsible for outbreak, country admirably adapted for colonisation, 256

Mashunas, loot the object of their rising, 236; their principal characteristics, 237

Matabele, the, prosperous under the rule of the Chartered Company, 7, 71; murder a native policeman, 18, 19; attack the native police at Umgorshlwini, 20; inscrutability of the native mind, 25; raids on cattle, 26, 61; barbarity, 34, 36, 213; campaign of 1893 against, 43; demoralisation and surrender in 1893, 46; their military spirit scotched, not killed, 47; probable losses in 1893, 47; disarmament only partial, 48; waiting an opportunity to rebel, 51; want of combined action, 56, 154; belief in the Umlimo, 56; non-interference with waggon and coach traffic, 57, 58; improved tactics, 60; raid on Essexvale, 69; friendlies among, 71; massing in the Matopos, 73, 221; bad shooting of, 153; severely defeated at the Umguza, 177; effects of rebellion on, 253

Matabeleland, suitability of the country for cattle breeding, 5, 255; appearance of the rinderpest, 13; rumours of native rising, 13; transitional state of, 66; curious position of affairs in, 142; plentiful harvest, 198; Dutch settlers in, 241; Boer element strong in, 240; railways, 254; effect of the rinderpest in, 255; country admirably adapted for colonisation, 256

Matabele rebellion, the, rumours of, 13, 14; opinion regarding origin of, 17; first overt act of, 19; its Zulu origin, 26, 52; progress of, 31; reflections upon, 29-31, 64-67; account of, 93; horrors of, 193; number of settlers killed, 250; negotiations for peace, 251

_Matabele Times_, quoted, 58, 176, 177

Matibi, a Mashuna chief, valuable assistance from, 237

Matopo Hills, massing of Matabele in, 73; journey through, 74; skirmish in, 75-77; strong position of enemy in, 220

Maxim, unfortunate jamming of, 152

Meikle, Capt., 128, 156

Metcalfe, Sir Charles, 197, 205, 222

Moffat, Lieut., 151

Molyneux, Capt., 139, 142, 156, 185; erects fort at Fig Tree, 140; Matabele attack his farm, 180

"Mondoros," 236

Mostert, Mr., 104

Mounted Police, distribution of, 53

Mullins, Lieut., 218, 232

Munzberg, Mr., wounded, 77, 110

Napier, Col., 29, 54, 142, 146, 155, 185, 198, 203; force under, reaches Tekwe store, 98; arrives at Bulawayo, 215; commended by Lord Grey, 239

Native Police, Mr. Jackson's distrust of, 14; defections among the, 50, 53, 70; disarmament of, at Bulawayo, 93

Native question in Rhodesia, importance of the, 88

Nellie Reef Mine, 37

Nicholson, Capt., 144, 155

Niekerk, Capt. Van, 59, 105, 117, 120, 154, 200, 203, 223; cool judgment and bravery of, 122, 125; wounded, 126

Norton, Mr., 28, 169

Notman, Mr., 23

Nyenyezi, proscription of, 44

Obas, recaptures women and cattle belonging to Marzwe, 184

O'Connor, Joe, remarkable escape of, 80; his brother and cousin murdered by the Matabele, 86, 87

O'Leary, Sergt.-Major, 40

Ottens, Mr., murder of, 34

Parker, Trooper, death of, 201, 210

Parkin, Lieut., 176, 180

Parsons, Trooper, death of, 175

Peacock, Sergt., wounded, 219

Pelly, Rev. Douglas, 212

Pittendrigh, Capt., leaves Bulawayo with a rescue party, 100; encounters the rebels, 102; fortifies Campbell's store, 104; relief of, 106; returns to Bulawayo, 107

Plumer, Col., successful engagement by force under, 217-221; sets out for the Khami river, 221, 239

Police force, effects of removing, 51

Pongo store, 98, 195; murders at, 94, 96, 100

Purssell, Mr., 120, 125

Queen's Mine, 230

Redbank, large impi at, 143

Reddington, Mr., murder of, 100, 196

Reed, Rev. Mr., saved by the Makalakas, 117

Rees, Rev. Mr., narrow escape of, 231

Reid, Capt., 147

Rensberg, Commandant Van, 105, 200, 202, 208; and the Africander Corps, 241

Reynolds, Corporal, 133

Riebek, Van, 66

Rifles and ammunition belonging to Government at beginning of rebellion, 55

Rinderpest, 13, 253-255; spread of, 17; effects of, 56; ravages at Mangwe, 115

Rhodes, Mr. Arthur, 234

Rhodes, Mr. Cecil, 186, 197, 205, 208, 222, 243, 251; confidence felt in, 259

Rhodesia, steps necessary for future safety of, 34; importance of native question in, 88; opening up and colonisation of, 241; Boer element in, 241, 242; present position and future prospects of, 250 _et seq._; gold in, 256; administration under the Chartered Company, and as a Crown Colony contrasted, 257-259

Rhodesia, Eastern, force sent to, 236

Rhodesia Horse, 54, 105

Rixon, Mr., 214

Robinson, Capt., 235

Robinson, Mr., 96

Rooyen, Cornelius Van, 114, 180, 182

Rorke, Lieut., narrow escape of, 130

Ross family, massacre of the, 209, 212

Rothman, Trooper, death of, 202, 211

Salisbury coach chased by Kafirs, 99

Salisbury Relief Force, meeting with, 197; leaves for Bulawayo, 215

"Salugazana," a prophetess, consulted by Lo Bengula, 236

Schultz, Mr., 86

Scott, Major, at Bulawayo, 91

Sewhoi-whoi river, game plentiful near, 2

Shashani Hotel, 113

Shashani Pass, 56

Shiloh Hills, Gifford's fight in, 127

Shiloh mission station, 229

Sinclair, Lieut., 202

Simms, Mr., 74

Slowey, Trooper, wounded, 220

South Africa, compared with North America, 65, 66; British and Dutch in, 243 _et seq._

Spargot's store, 118

Spiro's store, 72, 110, 118, 121

Spreckley, Col., 29, 33, 69, 71, 197; his valuable services at Bulawayo, 91; inflicts heavy loss on the rebels at the Umguza, 224; leaves with patrol for Shiloh, 228; arrives at Fynn's farm, 233; falls in with large body of rebels, 233; captures a large amount of grain and returns to Bulawayo, 235

Stewart's store, 95, 98, 187, 209

Steyn, Mr., 125

Stoddart, Lieut., 238

Stracey, Mr., wounded, 77, 110

Stuart, Jack, American miner, 229

Swinburne, Mr., English scout, 176

Tati, food supply at, 146

Taylor, Capt., 204

Taylor, Mr. Herbert, and the cattle question, 8, 9

Tchangani store, the, 94, 99; laager at, 95; patrols sent out from, 96

Tchangani column, despatch of, 186; composition and strength of, 186, 187

Tekwe river, Matabele impi at, 187

Tekwe store, 97

Thaba Induna, enemy in force at, 189; skirmish near, 191; no quarter shown at, 192

Thomas, Mr., 13, 72

Thomson, Mr. Moodie, 101

Transvaal, the invasion of the, 245

Tree-planting and farming, 11

Umfondisi, nephew of Lo Bengula joins in the rebellion, 22

Umgorshlwini, native police attacked at, 20

Umguza, the, skirmish at, 145; expeditions to, 155, 156, 223; Lieut. Grenfell's description of fight at, 170-175; composition of force engaged at, 172

Umjan, neutrality of, 52; hostility of his sons and followers, 53

"Umlimo," the god of the Makalakas, prophecies of, 13, 226; superstitions regarding, 15, 56; accepted as an oracle by the Matabele, 16; Lo Bengula's belief in, 16, 143; responsible for outbreak in Mashunaland, 236

Umlugulu, 11, 112; one of the chief instigators of the rebellion, 12; his anxiety regarding Jameson's surrender, 12; and the Umlimo, 17

Umsetchi, 28

Umsheti, 169

Umzingwani store, broken into by natives, 111

Umzobo, 19; attempts to pick a quarrel with the native police, 20

Usher, Mr., predicts the rising of the Matabele, 14

Vigers, Mr., 146

Vigne, Dr., 157

Vultures, extraordinary absence of, 115

Walsh, Lieut., 157

Warwick, Lieut., 218

Watts, Major, 218

Webb, Lieut., 117, 121, 125, 140, 142

White, Capt. the Hon. C., sent with a force to Eastern Rhodesia, 236

White, Mr., 125; wounded, 126

Willoughby, General Digby, 179

Willoughby, Sir John, 44

Willoughby's Consolidated Co., 99, 230

Wilson, Major, death of, 45

Wilson's farm, 115, 139; fort built at, 176

Windley, Capt., 160, 161, 205; his horse refuses to carry double weight, 162; gallantry of, 163

Wise, Trooper, wounded, 164

Witch-doctor, influence of the, 51; death of a, 131

Wood, Mr., murder of, 99

Woodford's store, 38

Wrey, Capt., 193

Zambesi Kafirs, murdered by Matabele, 138, 229

Zeeburg, Mr. H., murder of, 100

Zeederberg, Mr., 119

Zinjanja, loyalty of the, 237

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Sporting Works published at "The Jungle."

TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE IN SOUTH-EAST AFRICA

Being the Narrative of the last eleven years spent by the Author on the Zambesi and its Tributaries; with an Account of the Colonisation of Mashonaland and the Progress of the Gold Industry in that Country.

BY FREDERICK COURTENEY SELOUS, C.M.Z.S., GOLD MEDALLIST OF THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY; AUTHOR OF "A HUNTER'S WANDERINGS IN AFRICA."

LONDON: ROWLAND WARD & CO., LIMITED,

"THE JUNGLE," 166 PICCADILLY.

WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAP.

Price 25s. net.

PUBLISHERS' ANNOUNCEMENT

Mr. Selous has spent twenty years in this portion of the world, during the whole of which time he has led the wandering life of an explorer and hunter. Regarded from a scientific point of view, his services have been fully recognised by the Royal Geographical Society, who have presented him with their Founder's Gold Medal, the highest honour in their power to bestow.

While in pursuit of large and dangerous game, Mr. Selous encountered many hardships and had some hairbreadth escapes, the account of which he gives in the graphic and entertaining style which gained such popularity for his former work. At the present time, when Mashunaland, after having passed through many vicissitudes, is being permanently settled up, and its mineral wealth developed, an account of its history and resources, written by Mr. Selous, who is so thoroughly acquainted with the country, and who guided the pioneer expedition in their successful march from Macloutsie to the place where Fort Salisbury now stands, cannot fail to be of the greatest interest.

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

"There is not space in these columns to give illustrative extracts of Mr. Selous's exciting adventures so graphically, because so simply and modestly, told, so the statement must suffice that so many of them have never been gathered between the covers of a single book.... As a record of hunting adventures it is almost without equal."—_Illustrated London News._

"Author needs no introduction.... Will doubtless become the standard work of reference. Excellent and numerous illustrations."—_Field._

"It is impossible even to indicate all the points of interest with which Mr. Selous deals. Illustrations are both numerous and excellent."—_Times._

"Delightful book ... and is produced in a style befitting the reputation of both author and publisher."—_Review of Reviews._

"Genuine story of adventure told in straightforward fashion, full of dramatic incidents and hairbreadth escapes, and made especially interesting by the fact that its author was the pioneer of the expedition to Mashunaland."—_Morning Post._

"From cover to cover the book is crammed with most interesting information about the people, the country, the habits of wild beasts, mining shooting, and the rest."—_Vanity Fair._

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Royal 8vo, about 400 pages. Price 18s. net.

SEVENTEEN TRIPS THROUGH SOMALILAND

A Record of Exploration and Big Game Shooting, 1884 to 1893.

BY CAPTAIN H. G. C. SWAYNE, R.E., FELLOW OF THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY

WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS.

EXTRACTS FROM THE PRESS.

"Captain Swayne's narrative of 'Seventeen Trips through Somaliland' ... serves to remind us how rapidly the waste places in the world are getting filled up. His account of the big game shooting has a popular interest ... minute information for the sportsman's guidance."—_Standard._

"Will be carefully studied by those who have been there and those—and there are many—who have an eager desire to go. It is full of thrilling episodes.... The last chapter ... contains some highly interesting notes on the wild fauna of the country. The appendices, which deal with the fitting out of Somali expeditions and with the physical geography, have a distinct value."—_Times._

"Captain Swayne relates his experiences in a perfectly straightforward unemotional manner.... Contains a great many meritorious illustrations."—_Globe._

"Captain Swayne's 'Seventeen Trips through Somaliland' seems entitled to more attention and authority than most hunters. Contains one of the fullest accounts yet published of the life, customs, and characteristics of the restless Somali tribes."—_Scotsman._

"Is full of well-told adventure, which appeal alike to the casual reader, the naturalist, and the sportsman. The drawings of the heads and animals are excellent, and for some years to come this book should remain 'the book' of those who would explore or shoot Somaliland."—_World._

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_STATISTICS OF BIG GAME SHOOTING_

One Vol., 4to, Cloth special, Price =30s.= net.

RECORDS OF BIG GAME

CONTAINING

AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR DISTRIBUTION

DESCRIPTIONS OF SPECIES, LENGTHS, AND WEIGHTS

MEASUREMENTS OF HORNS

AND

FIELD NOTES

FOR THE USE OF SPORTSMEN AND NATURALISTS

BY ROWLAND WARD, F.Z.S.

AUTHOR OF "THE SPORTSMAN'S HANDBOOK," ETC.

_PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED_

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GREAT GAME SHOOTING AND PRACTICAL TAXIDERMY.

One Vol. Post 8vo. Bound in Leather. Price 3s. 6d. net By Post 3s. 9d.

THE

SPORTSMAN'S HANDBOOK

TO PRACTICAL COLLECTING, PRESERVING, AND ARTISTIC SETTING-UP OF TROPHIES AND SPECIMENS

TO WHICH IS ADDED A SYNOPTICAL GUIDE TO THE HUNTING GROUNDS OF THE WORLD

BY ROWLAND WARD, F.Z.S.,

AUTHOR OF "HORN MEASUREMENTS," ETC.

SEVENTH EDITION—WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS.

"Sport, however, it must be borne in mind, is a thing of every climate and of all seasons, and the manual referred to, 'The Sportsman's Handbook,' by Rowland Ward, F.Z.S., has a little to say of most regions, from the North of Scandinavia to the South of India. All knowledge is apt to come in useful; and even those of us who may never know the delight of facing a charge of the Cape buffalo—under some circumstances among the most dangerous experiences of the sportsman, we are told—may yet find a less rapturous pleasure in learning how a real sportsman should entertain such a visitor. The next best thing to being able to shoot a lion in a workmanlike fashion is to know how the thing ought to be done, and that is among the items of instruction in this little book."—_Daily News, Leading Article._

"With this in his portmanteau, no one fond of shooting and collecting need any longer lament his inability to preserve his trophies, since the directions given for skinning and preserving animals of all kinds are extremely clear and simple, and rendered all the more intelligible by the wood engravings by which they are accompanied. Quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles, and insects are all dealt with in turns, and directions given not merely for skinning them, but also for mounting them, if desired, a year or two (it may be) after they have been procured."—_Field._

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GUIDE TO THE KILLING

OF

PESTILENT & DESTRUCTIVE INSECTS

BY ROWLAND WARD, F.Z.S.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS FOR RECOGNITION.

LONDON: ROWLAND WARD & CO., LIMITED,

"THE JUNGLE," 166 PICCADILLY.

OBSERVATIONS ON

THE

PRESERVATION OF HOOFS

AND THE

DESIGNING OF HOOF-TROPHIES

ROWLAND WARD, F.Z.S.

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] One of the most influential men in Matabeleland in the time of Lo Bengula.

[2] The name of my Company's estate on which I was living before the rebellion.

[3] God. See Chapter xxvi.

[4] There can be no doubt as to this, as there is now an Umlimo or prophet with the insurgents in the north-east of Matabeleland, who has apparently no connection with the Umlimo in the Matopo Hills.

[5] His title was "Umlisa go Bulawayo," or Lieutenant of Bulawayo.

[6] Literally king; but the word is commonly used in addressing a European, as a complimentary title, conveying the idea of dependence on the part of the speaker.

[7] There is some doubt as to whether these murders were committed on the Monday or the Tuesday; Colonel Spreckley thinks on the Monday, whilst Mr. O'Connor says it was Tuesday. It is possible that the latter may have been a day wrong in his reckoning, whilst the entry in Mr. Bentley's books seems to favour the earlier date.

[8] Correct name "Impembisi."

[9] "Buccaneers" is the term of endearment commonly bestowed upon the Englishmen in Rhodesia by the editor of _Truth_.

[10] "Oude Baas" or "Old Master," so named after Mr. Hartley, the veteran elephant-hunter, who must have been in the country when he was born (1864 to 1870).

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