HOW THE ENGLISH ABE TREATED IN THE ZULU WAR.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 840, 21 July 1879, Page 2

HOW THE ENGLISH ABE TREATED IN THE ZULU WAR.

A correspondent, writing after the unsuccessful attack on Morosi Mountain, says :-—" I now come to the poor wounded. If ever one's heart bled out of pity. for anyone, it would have bled that night, and more especially the following morning. The wounded had to be carried down the mountain m blankets ; not a single mattress to lay the poor fellows, on. Only one tent was pitched m which to place the wounded. There were no more tents m the camp. Men living m damp sod wall tents, with a blanket over the fop for a roof, gave up these damp places to put four of the wounded m. They were laid on stinking sheepskins as substitutes for mattresses, and the wonder is that the treatment did not kill them. Is this the way that Christians should be treated 1 Have you ever heard of such ' mismanagement 1 Ought not these men no matter who they be, who are responsible for this wanton cruelty to the wounded, tc be brought to account for it by the nnanimous voice of the country and comrades of the wounded? God pity the poor feliows who fell wounded nt the attack on Morosi's Mountain on the Bth of April ! And now for what took place the following morning. Outside of the tert (mind the only tent) was erected a sod bank (formed of wet sod 3 fresh dug), about seven feet long by five wide, and about four feet six inches high, over which was thrown a blanket or so : this was the "amputating table." The first to be laid upon it was poor Scott, whose arm was cut off above the shell- wound. Then came poor Martingale, whose leg was cut off below the thigh After his leg was amputated he was carried into the mud hut, and laid down beside poor Scott. About twenty minutes afterwards, poor Martingale's body was carried out, and laid alongside of Pasky's body, who had died from the effects of his wound ; and during the afteruown the two bodies were conveyed by sorrowing comrades to their last resting place. Anyone witnessing the above-melancholy treatment must shudder, and hope it may never be his lot to be wounded. The wounded who were considered out of imminent danger, were carried eighteen miles to the hospital at Thomas's camp. The poor, much abused O.M.R. were told off to cairy the wounded men (5), whilst there are about 2000 Basutos here doin<( nothing whatever."