Note 95 — Chapter XI · SIHAYO, UMBILINI, AND THE MISSIONARIES IN ZULULAND.
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Sir H. Bulwer says “they have suspected, quite wrongly, that we had some design against them in making it” (the new road to the drift). It is to be questioned how far their suspicion was a wrongful one, seeing that it was understood from the first that the drift was intended especially for military purposes, and was undoubtedly inspected by Mr. Smith for the same.