Blackwood´s Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 126
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Excerpt from Blackwood´s Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 126: July December 1879 On Sunday the 12th January 1879, Colonel Pearson´s, or No. 1 Column, commenced to cross the Tugela, and enter Zululand. By the 16th the whole of the troops had crossed and encamped on the other side. I do not intend to dwell here on the passage itself -difficult as it was - suffice it to say, that it was unopposed by the enemy (large numbers of whom could be seen watching us from the distant hills); that the men and the waggons were placed on a pont or raft, which was attached by running gear to a wire hawser stretching from bank to bank, and were then pulled over by oxen on the far side. Efforts to swim the oxen across were not very successful; only those oxen which had before been in Zululand could he induced to enter the water. I noticed two or three fine spans of oxen which had been bought by Government from John Dunn; these took to the water at once, and so readily, that there was some doubt whether they were not going straight home to John Dunn´s house in Zululand, and to give themselves up as a peace-offering from that gentleman (who was at this time at Tugela) to King Cetywayo. Those that wouldn´t swim (about 2000 head) were taken over on the pont, which, under the excellent management of the Naval Brigade, worked day and night. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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