HORRIBLE ATROCITIES BY THE ZULU KING. A THOUSAND YOUNG GIRLS STRANGLED.

Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 514, 20 May 1879, Page 2

HORRIBLE ATROCITIES BY THE ZULU KING. A THOUSAND YOUNG GIRLS STRANGLED.

Some years ago Cetywayo insulted the English missionaries. Their converts were [ driven away and some of them killed, and the missionaries were ordered out of his country. They left in great haste, thinking and feeling their lives were in danger. I dare not relate some of the well known cruelties practised by Cetywayo. They are too vile for pen and paper. Not long ago he sent out for all the men to re-build his military kraals. It was a great work, and the progress was slow. He sent in to inquire the reason. They replied that some of the men were ill. He was enraged, and ordered h« soldiers to match throughout the land, and to kill all who were sick, and many were killed. The natives, who have lately fled into Natal, report that he bad 1000 young girls strangled to death last year because they obiected to marry the old men he had chosen for them. He will not allow young men to marry, for he must have them for soldiers in his military kraals, ready at a moment's notice to do hi 3 bidding. When they are between 30 and 40, and have been good and brave soldiers, he

will givo them wives. Every year he takes first pick of r!i the prettiest girls. The breaking of the seventh and eighth commandments is always punished with death. No locks are needed in Zululand. — Cape Town Correspondent N. Z. Herald.