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buy food and fodder for the horses on the journey because money was of no value in Zululand at the time. At the back of the saddle we fastened our blankets.
We rode via Etembeni and farms to Rorke’s Drift to the Swedish Missionary Witt on the Bushmans River where we rested and wanted to get some bread. He received us warmly but had no bread.
From Witt’s station we rode over the Bushmans River, passed the famous mountain Isandhlwane, where in 1879 a British legion (about 700 men) was encircled by a large Zulu regiment and all but two were murdered who then fled by horse to Rorke’s Drift with the flag. The first night we wanted to
spend in a kaffir kraal, but the men refused us everything and demanded that we should immediately leave their kraal. We had to continue our journey through the night on foot paths, leading our horses by the reigns, until we found shelter at another kraal, where the residents knew our Missionary Filter at Inyesane. There we bought a pot of meat that was on the fire and feasted on it because during the day we only had sour