yesterday after the moimted men because of the laager. We
were all, by order, at the Umlambongwenva kraal the day before
yesterday.
When the King addressed ns, he said, '^ As the Inkandampemyn
Regiment would not let the cattle go in as a peace offering, and
wished to fight, and as the white army was now at his home, we
conld fight. That we were to fight the army in the open; to
attack it between Nodwengn and Ulnndi kraals (where we did
fight)." The King also told ns, when we pursued you, not to
cross the river, for fear of the guns that would be left in the
laager. The King himself, personally, placed the different r^-
ments, and gave us our orders. We were watching and expecting
the army would leave the laager and march for the King's kraal.
We saw the force when it started to cross the river, and surrounded
it, as we had been ordered to do. Yesterday we all thought we
should have an easy victory if you came into the open. The two
cannon taken at Isandhlwana were at Nodwengn, and are now at
the King's other kraal in the thorns. No one knows how to use
them. The white man who writes the King's letters is a trader.
