The Zulu War
“I was in the army the time of the Zulu war. Great hardship we got in it and plenty of starvation. It was the Dutch called in the English to help them against the Zulus, that were tricky rogues, and would do no work but to be driving the cattle off the fields. A pound of raw flour we would be given out at seven o’clock in the morning, and some would try to make a cake, and some would put it in a pot with water and be stirring it, and it might be eleven o’clock before you would get what you could eat, and not a bit of meat maybe for two days.”