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The families were more concerned with leaving English rule than with their destination: some proposed to cut east across the Drakensberg Mountains, which had hemmed Shaka's empire. Three days later Mr. ' Saltwood was shipped back to the mines he had once supervised, and when he reached them he was pleased to see that no chaos had resulted from his absence. en, for there was no ease or hope, Nxumalo led Saltwood to the small dark house that was the focus of this visit.

Mzilikazi's armies had moved sharply westward, and for this Nxumalo was grateful, for it meant that he ' could now proceed nort ' 'Be that as it may, if you ever decide to go north, I'd be ver interested in your farm. his investigations he asked permission to meet with the son of one of its principal architects. About a quarter of the recruits, 2,350 officers and men were left over to emigrate to the Cape.