Cetewayo has arrived at the Cape, and has been allotted
rooms which open on to the ramparts of the castle. He has attendants of his own and three of his wives, and has asked • for ten more, whom ho named, and who are, apparently, to be forwarded from Zululand. He has been interviewed by Sir Bartle Frere—an interview he must have enjoyed—and has expressed to him his regret that he ever fought the English,. with whom his father, Panda, told him always to live at peace. Personally, he is a finely-built black man, standing six feet high,. and when not irritated, amiable. He has, however, much of the childishness of the savage, complaining because whole oxen are not roasted for him, and expressing utter surprise at the discipline and drill of the Queen's Marines. There appears to be no desire to treat him with harshness, and indeed many of the colonists argue that he is not entitled to the considera- tion he receives, and should be regarded rather as a captured criminal than as a State prisoner. There is a trace of the Dutch inveteracy in that idea.
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