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the latter place is far the prettier being
of the later build the former being of
Dutch build some 200 years old we found
our way to the post office but it was
shut up We fell in with a young
scotchman belonging to the 91st
Highlanders you will remember the battle
of Ginghilova with the Zulus & that
this regiment took part in the fray. We
went into the barracks & had a look
round We saw some of the gun taken from
the Zulus & sat down & listened while some
of them recounted their adventures Some
of the captured rifles were very good
ones and they said had the Zulus fired
low instead of high as they did they
would have cut them up badly.
They said that the poor fellows they
relieved at Eekowe commanded
by Colonel Pearson were like a