570 that late at night when frenzied messengers galloped in from th northeast, they reached the latter family first. 'My father was there, too,' Van Doorn said. It's how we instilled patriotism in this nation. Within months Dingane himself was dead, assassinated per- haps at the instigation of his brother Mpande, who ascended the throne with the help of his Boer allies.
To compound his problems, the War Office had given him a second in command a general whom he positively detested and t whom he preferred not to speak. ' Everything these three male spies saw in the next weeks con firmed their suspicion that Johanna van Doorn was f At first only those at the rear were aware of him, but when they started leisurely to move on up the banks of the Krokodilsprui 1 A de Groat 1787-1836 2Sons Minna- m.
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