ed barely an hour when the Zulu power was utterly
broken.

Meanwhile, the 1st Division under Crealock on the right had been
operating in the south by the lower Tugela and Etschowe, moving
somewhat close to the coast and in the direction of Ulundi; but
through no fault of its own it did not reach the field in time, and
when the final battle was won, the army as then constituted was
practically broken up. Other arrangements for its distribution were
then made, and a series of forts and fortified posts held by sufficient
garrisons were formed all along the Zulu frontier. But the closing
scene had yet to come. Two columns were formed for the final military
exploration of Zululand, the one under Colonel Clarke, which had among
its number the 57th, 60th, and 80th, and the other under Colonel Baker
Russell, which included the 94th. The former was to occupy Ulundi, and
thence attempt the capture of the king. This was effected by Major
Marter after much trouble, and the war was thus at an end. On being
captured, Cetewayo remained, though broken, a king, and objected with
dignity to being taken by a private of dragoons, with the words, “White
soldier, touch me not--I surrender to your chief.”

Baker Russell was to search the southern and eastern part of the
country, and after doing so, enter the Transvaal about Luneberg. This
was done, and the last shots in the Zulu war were fired by his column
in an attack on the Manganobas in the Intombe valley.

The war had cost the army 76 officers and 1007 men killed, and 37
officers and 206 men wounded; while in addition 17 officers and 330
men died from disease, and 1286 were invalided home. The cost to the
country financially had been £5,230,323.

Sir Garnet Wolseley’s lucky star had again shone over him in these
operations. His presence in South Africa coincided with the period of
success and the capture of Cetewayo. There was one more knotty point
for him to settle, that of the still insurgent chief Sekukuni, who
had been a thorn in the side of the Boers, whose territory w