A ZULU ACCOUNT OF THE DEATH OF THE PRINCE.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5808, 1 October 1880, Page 3

A ZULU ACCOUNT OF THE DEATH OF THE PRINCE.

The following particulars of this sad event have been forwarded to the newspapers by Sir Evelyn Wood, as rolatod to him by eighteen Zulus who took part in the attack on the reconnoitring party on Juno 1, 1879 :— " The attacking party numbered about forty, of whom twelve followed the Prince, and either seven or eight worn concerned immediately in his death. The Zulus, having nearly surro'uided the party, fired and rushed on them as they wero in the act of dismounting. The Prince, not having succeeded in mounting, ran alongside his horse until it broke away from him on the hither bank of the donga, about 220 yards from the krral where the party had off-saddled. The Prince followed his horse into the donga closely pressed by his pursuers. Ho turned upon them, in the words of the Zulus themselves ' like a lion at bay.' Struck by an assegai inside the left shoulder, he rushed at his nearest opponent, who fled out of the donga, and got behind another Zulu, who coming up fired at the Prince when only ten yards from him. The Prince returned the fire with his pistol and faced his now rapidlyincreasing foea until menaced from his right rear and struck by another assegai. He regained the level spot on which he had first stood in the donga, where he was speedily surrounded. He then seized an assegai which had been thrown at him, for in struggling with his terrified horse his sword foil from its scabbard. Ho thus defended himself against seven oc ei^ht Zulus, who state they did not dare" to close on him until, exhausted, he sank down on his hips." The above facts were elicited from the Zulus, who wero examined separately on the scene of the attack, and. out of sight of one another.