The British troops returned, having previously burned the kraals and ascertained the approximate number of the enemy assembled to oppose the march of the column.
A Spartan absence of all furniture and of all luxuries was perceptible, but the numerous huts and kraals indicated that this place had been the head-quarters of a powerful army.
On the 17th of June a correspondent reports that Newdigate's forces were constantly occupied patrolling and shelling kraals and dongas, with no appreciable result.
Military kraals were scattered over the country, generally of an oval shape, and of large dimensions.
By noon Ulundi was in flames, and during the day all military kraalsof the Zulu army and in the valley of the Umvolosi were destroyed.
He ran until clear of the walls that enclosed the kraals and garden.
Hans and Hendrik were already in their saddles; and having cleared the kraals of all their live stock, with the assistance of the dogs, drove the lowing and bleating animals before them.
These kraals are important structures about the homestead of a boer, almost as much so as his own dwelling-house, which of itself also bears the name of "kraal.
Whether they were near to any Caffre kraals or not it was impossible to say; but they heard no barking of dogs or lowing of oxen.
Now their kraals and our fathers' kraals were separate.
Shortly after this an impi was sent out against some strong Basutu kraals which lay in our path, and whose inhabitants, our scouts had reported, were arming for resistance.
And then, as we drew near to the scene of our fierce and bloody conflict, what remained of the impi which had gone out against the Basutu kraals drew near to hail the King.
However, we seized what they had left, and laid waste their kraals and passed on, for we should have gained nothing by hunting these rats out of their holes.
Fair and rolling plains lay beneath us, stretching as far as the eye could behold, dotted with kraals and cattle, and away in the distance coursed herds of game-- elands and springboks and gnus and many other kinds.
For the rest, the ashes of their flaming kraals were soaked in their own blood.
Then, as our march progressed further and further, we began to find kraals which were not empty, and whose people had neglected to remove out of our destroying path.
I would have gone against those Basutu kraals again single-handed to have been allowed to tunga with her for a wife.
They enter the miserable kraalsof the natives, and often carry off their children.
These kraals are important structures about the homestead of a boor, almost as much so as his own dwelling-house, which of itself also bears the name of "kraal.
This plan is often adopted under similar circumstances; but the field-cornet had not thought of it: and as but few locusts fell in the kraals where the animals had been confined, they had therefore been without food since the previous day.
Hans and Hendrik were already in their saddles; and having cleared the kraals of all their live-stock, with the assistance of the dogs, drove the lowing and bleating animals before them.
The weather had gradually increased in heat, the native kraals were few and small, and what was worse, the natives themselves seemed more and more unsociable, if not actually unfriendly.
Beyond lay the plain, one or two small kraalsdotting it here and there, the patches of sugar-cane, maize, and banana showing tokens of unusual industry and civilisation.
But the old-time kraals were all built like this one, except in the open country where there was no bush to make fences of.
Out on the sunlit expanse in front nothing moved, unless an odd thread of smoke mounting lazily from two or three kraals could be counted.
For over an hour we searched and called in vain, and the husband ordered a return, stating his resolve to visit the neighbouring kraalsnext morning, and demand to have his wife restored, as he felt certain she had fled to one of them.
Far in the blue, so high the eye could scarcely mark them, vultures were flying southward, where forty miles off kraals had been destroyed and two hundred black carcasses were lying in the sun.
He stood out at the kraals in the blazing sun, explaining to two Kaffer boys the approaching end of the world.
Even the little furrow between the farmhouse and the kraalswas now a stream, knee-deep, which almost bore away the Kaffer women who crossed it.
It was eight o'clock when they neared the farmhouse: a red-brick building, with kraals to the right and a small orchard to the left.
Thou wilt run wailing round the kraals of thy people, hunted ever by Lupiswana, but they will not admit thee.
All these journeys of his to Caermaen and its neighborhood had a peculiar object; he was gradually leveling to the dust the squalid kraals of modern times, and rebuilding the splendid and golden city of Siluria.
In a dry season people were constantly in fear of this happening, for they knew that any who wished to injure them would drive in pegs near their kraals and then report them to the king for having done it.
The large cattle kraals are accordingly arranged in various quarters in connexion with the great road, and the entrance of each kraal is a small archway in the strong iron-wood fence sufficiently wide to admit one ox at a time.
The hidden folk were busy about their own ends, and I regretted that I had not taken the road by Sikitola's and seen how the kraals looked.
He pictured the heroic age of his nation, when every man was a warrior and hunter, and rich kraals stood in the spots now desecrated by the white man, and cattle wandered on a thousand hills.
The Zulus come from kraals and villages, both old and young, some clothed, but most of them heathen in their blankets.
Their cattle are kept inkraals and are very carefully tended.
Similar indications of kraals could be seen everywhere upon the hill side, and Kreta shook his head and said: "No can go further.
Shooting men has very little effect on those who are not shot; as for driving them out of one part of the country, it makes no difference to them one way or another; they can put up their kraals anywhere.
It was a good-sized village, and differed little from the ordinary Kaffir kraals except that two or three of the huts were large and beehive-shaped.
This is near the boundary of what you may call the Kaffir country, although I don't think they have their kraals as far south as this, though there was fighting here in the last war, and may be again.
That the numbers slaughtered were very great, the numerous ruins of Basuto kraals all over the country testify.
The utter loneliness of the place--the entire absence of life--the empty kraals and the silent homestead, all this is inexpressibly grateful to her crushed and lacerated spirit.
He had travelled some distance and now not far in front lay the outlying kraals of Nteya's location.
The Amafengu are located on our borders, to taunt and jeer at our young men--to lure our young women over into their kraals that the very name of Gcaleka may be debased and defiled.
This sort of fun has been going on at the different kraals for the last month.
After descending the mountain and burning the kraals on its south-east slopes, Buller and his party returned to camp without any event happening on their homeward route.
The White Umvolosi runs through this plain, in which were also established the other kraals forming the headquarters of regiments.
All these kraals of the kings, princes, and principal chiefs are protected with high wooden stockades, pierced here and there with low entrances, large enough to admit only one person at a time.
Three small kraals were found to be in flames, fired by the Zulus as they retired with their cattle before the advance of the English horsemen.
In the ascent to the kop several small but well-built Zulu kraals were passed, and it was noticed that the huts were very neatly built.
The expedition now noticed a few deserted kraals on the right bank, while those on the left were found to be in ruins, as if lately destroyed.
The kraals were well plastered and very neatly thatched, while the doors were made rather small, with the flooring hard and smooth.
On Saturday night they slept in the kraal they had reached in the afternoon, having during the day visited a number of smaller kraals and villages, in which they captured many assegais and other weapons.
A rolling grassy plain, leading to some easy and gentle slopes, was presented to view, and evidently to the astonishment of most of the party, who had been accustomed to the rude and rocky fastnesses in which these kraals are usually built.
Unnatural immorality is common enough in the kraals and in the "compounds," for the Natives have their "perverts" as well as the whites.
There they live, coming down to the stores and beach in the morning, and returning to their respective kraals at night.
In their kraals their laws are equally stringent, and the colonists declare that until the white man went among the Zulus, lying and thieving and immorality were unknown.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kraals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
