The disposal of Cetewayo is a somewhat difficult matter. He
has fought us fairly, according to his lights, and we have no right whatever to punish him. We have, however, according to international practice, a right to detain him for a time as a State prisoner, until his release will no longer endanger the results of the war. If it is possible, he should be held in honourable detention on a moderate pension, and perhaps the best course would be to send him and such of his family and attendants as will adhere to him, to the Mauritius, whence he
could be restored, whenever the times allowed, to his own land. It would be most foolish as well as unjust to make his im- prisonment rigorous, and so teach every South-African chief in insurrection that his only course is to fight on to the death. The Government of India could give him a kraal in the Andamans, and perfect liberty within the island.
