CHAPTER XI.

Advance of 1st column--Description of route--Forts Crealock and Chelmsford--Causes of delay--Sickness of troops and its origin--Capture of cattle--Proposals for peace by Umsintwanga--His interview with Crealock--Surrender of Umguelumgwizi--Advance of 2nd division--Details of troops composing it--A fortified kraal--Fort built by Wood on the Umlatoosi--Patrol by Buller--Burning of five kraals in the Usipexi district--Amhlabatini--Depôt there described--Envoys from Cetywayo--Advance to White Umvolosi--Wood's camp--Lord Chelmsford's ultimatum to Cetywayo. 311