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to the people that Dinizulu was about to be anointed King of Zululand. (Appendix A.) This ceremony was performed in May 1884, in the presence of a large concourse of the Zulu people and their Chiefs, and the new King* was received with great rejoicing and the strongest manifesta- tions of loyalty.
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ever, never re- ceived that recog- nition by Her On the 23rd of May 1884, a written agreement Majesty's Govern- (Appendix B) was made with Dinizulu and his ment which has Chiefs, in which the Boers promised to support essential to the them, and to maintain law and order in the land, effective installa and in which an undefined portion of land--as tion of a Zulu much as they thought necessary-was ceded to King.—E, F. them by Dinizulu and his Chiefs, for the purpose of establishing an independent State, and so main- taining peace in the country.
"As it was found that Usibepu, although he had at first expressed himself willing to submit to the authority of Dinizulu, was preparing himself to resist the efforts of Dinizulu and his white protectors in establishing peace, and was trying to obtain extraneous assistance, and as the sin- cerity of Uhamu was, at that time, very much doubted, the number of volunteers was increased to 800 men.
"After fruitless attempts to come to amicable arrangements with Usibepu, he was told that the peace of the country demanded his submission to the King, and the disbanding of his followers. He took no notice of this, and the Usutu force, accompanied by 100 Boers, mostly young men, under Commandant J. L. Meyer, now President, marched against him. He was defeated and his people disbanded. Usibepu fled into the Reserve with a portion of his followers, and those of his people who remained acknowledged Dinizulu as King, and settled down in the country.
"With the defeat of Usibepu peace was restored in the country, and arrangements were at once made for maintaining it.
Having got rid of Usibepu, the Usutu leaders and Chiefs tried to induce the Boers to assist them to do away with Uhamu, and, in fact, to make them masters again of the whole country, including the Reserve, as it was before the Zulu war. They were told that Uhamu's rights must be respected, he having submitted to the King, and that they would not be allowed to interfere in any way with the Reserve Territory; that care would be taken that neither Uhamu nor Usibepu would molest them in the future. A guard was placed with Uhamu, the country was regularly patrolled, and precautions were taken to prevent the Usutu from interfering with the Reserve Territory,
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In August 1884 negotiations were entered
into with Dinizulu and his Chiefs with the view
of defining the arrangements for the future
government of the country, and the extent of the
land to be ceded to those who had undertaken
responsibility for its peace.
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After long and careful explanation and
deliberation, in which Dinizulu was assisted by
the advice of his Chiefs and of Mr. W. Grant, the
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