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the lady in question must be taken into account, and, if possible, some means found of pacifying or neutralising her opposition. Such means might be found in gaining over those persons in this country whose influence she might respect, to the view that what is proposed to be done is the most that can or ought to be done for the Usutus, although less than she or they would demand.

To return to Cetywayo. Whatever the extent of his ambition, he had not the requisite military strength to make good his projects. Captivity had impaired his powers and destroyed his prestige, and the conditions of his restoration had cut his claws. Undabuko's invasion of Usibebu's territory was unsuccessful, and led to a counter-invasion of Cetywayo's territory by Usibebu and Uhamu, Cetywayo's brother, who, though nominally placed under Cetywayo upon the latter's restoration, had not submitted to him, but continued, as he had been since 1880, the ally of Usibebu. The forces of Usibebu and Uhamu over-ran Central Zululand, defeated Cetywayo's assembled forces, destroyed, Cety- wayo's great place Ulundi, and drove Cetywayo, as a fugitive, into the British Reserve, where he died in the following February.

THE TROUBLES IN THE RESERVE.

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The overthrow of Cetywayo took place in July 1883, and from that time until the Boers came into the country in April 1884, the state of Central Zululand was one of mere rapine and anarchy. The arrival of Cetywayo in the Reserve, with many Usutus, was the cause of many difficulties and troubles which lasted over a year, and gave rise to much anxiety at the time. To safeguard the Reserve," troops were moved into it in October 1883, and it has been garrisoned ever since. These troubles did not indeed become acute until after Cetywayo's death, when it appears to have occurred to the Usutu leaders, that that event might be turned to account in regaining their lost position in Zululand. Cety wayo's funeral was postponed at first under the pretext that it was necessary to wait for Umnvamana, who was in his own territory in the north, organising a force for an attack on Usibebu, but early in April, Cetywayo's brothers made an urgent request for permission to bury the body in the Reserve, their obvious inten- tion being to induce the Usutus in the Reserve to assemble at the performance of the burial rites, and to join in a general attack on Usibebu with a force which Umnyamana had collected in the north. Sir H. Bulwer peremptorily refused to permit this, but on the 10th of April the brothers carried off thẹ coffiu to the Inkandhla, a broken and forest country in the centre of the Reserve. At the same time the attitude of the Usutus in the Reserve became defiant, and one of the chiefs, Qetuka, refused to pay his hut tax, the collection of which amongst the inhabitants gene- rally had been going on quietly for some time.

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