By far the most serious news yet received from Natal
is the uni- versal testimony to the headlong daring of the Zulus. Their leaders, when once resolved on attack, do not care how many men they lose, but carry their regiments forward, whatever the destruc- tion caused by the breech-loader. In the splendid defence of the post at Rorke's Drift, on January 22nd, Lieutenants Brom- -head and Chard, with less than one hundred men, had six times to drive out the enemy with the bayonet; and it is specially recorded in the bulletins that " the Zulus fought with infuriated zeal, even coming to the loopholes and seizing the muzzles of the rifles." These are formidable enemies, though it should be -observed that under certain circumstances Zulus do fly, and that they seem as unable to capture even a weak entrenched position as Red Indians have always proved themselves to be. They did not carry even Rorke's Drift, and seem unable to attack Ekowe effectually, though they face the defenders' fire like the best Europeans. On all hands the want of cavalry is lamented, and it is asserted that the Boers defeated the Zulus mainly because they were mounted, and could therefore pursue. A British soldier can no more come up with a flying Zulu than a man can come up with a cat.
