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SIR GARNET WOLSELEY'S determined persistence has been rewarded. Cetewayo was captured on August 28th, in the south-eastern corner of Zululand, by a detachment of the 1st Dragoon Guards, and the Zulu war may, therefore, be considered at an end. No other chief has the same ascendancy, and the new policy of acknowledging the independence of each head of a tribe, under the general supervision of a British Resident, will probably, for a time at all events, prevent the growth of a new Kingship,—that is, if the settlers of the Transvaal and Natal can be prevented from making raids upon the weakened tribes. The duty of the British Government now is to compensate the Zulus for invasion by securing them milder and, juster government, security from the Swazies on the north, and exemption from dis- turbance through British land-claims. It will then remain only to defeat Secocoeni, pacify the Pondos, conciliate the Boers, and devise some method of meeting the grand difficulty of all, the geographical shape of the South-African Dominion. It is a triangle, with the apex civilised and the base barbarian, and it may be necessary, say for twenty years, to prohibit immigration from the north. Otherwise all efforts at improvement will be destroyed by the steady push of unknown barbarians from Central Africa.
