A CORK MAN IN ZULULAND.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VII, Issue 336, 26 September 1879, Page 15

A CORK MAN IN ZULULAND.

"J HE following are some extracts from a letter written by a Cork man, a corporal of the Ist., 13th Regt., at present doing duty with Biigadier-Geneial Wood, Kumbula Hill, Zululand. After speaking of the L>audula and Intombi disasters, at the former of which he states the enemy cut off the heads and hands of the diummer boys of the l&t-24tb, he tells his friends : " This is a fearful war— much moie so than the people at home think it is. We thought when coming here that it would be over by this time, and that all we had to do was to march into Zululand and take the country. We w ill have work enough to fight them all on account of i lie Zulus being so strong, and their country is so very rough and mountainous, besides bad roads to march. I have had my bdlyfull of South Africa, and I think this war will last about ftvi months or moie. Infantry men are no use in thiscountiy. It, is all hoi semen who are wanted, for these Kaffirs can urn like horbes over rocks and hills, whcie we cannot get at them, and they have nothing to carry but a rifle, a few assegais and a shield, and live on vciy little, wheieas we always cairy with us a laigc convoy and commissariat. It is five months since I slept without my arms and accoutrements, and taking off my clothes. I have to lie on the wet giound among snakes, lizards, and mosquitos. We will have all our work to rout those beggars, the Kaffirs, out of this."'