He mentions Laputa only in a footnote as a renegade Christian who had something to do with fomenting discontent.

He considers that the word 'Inkulu,' which he often heard, was a Zulu name for God.

Mr Upton is a picturesque historian, but he knew nothing of the most romantic incident of all.

This is the tale of the midnight shepherding of the 'heir of John' by Arcoll and his irregulars.
At Bruderstroom, where I was lying unconscious, there were two hundred men of the police; sixty-three Basuto scouts under a man called Stephen, who was half native in blood and wholly native in habits; and three commandoes of the farmers, each about forty strong.

The commandoes were really companies of the North Transvaal Volunteers, but the old name had been kept and something of the old loose organization.
There were also two four-gun batteries of volunteer artillery, but these were out on the western skirts of the Wolkberg following Beyers's historic precedent.