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Hi,

The following assumes that the body with the rope around his neck, was a fact.

I am currently in conversation on another forum about the skeleton found with a rope around its neck at Isandlwana.

I believe the discovery was made in June 1879 by Majors Black's party and was published in Mainwarrings account of events (in 1895) - but I may be wrong....

This fellow has always been associated with the 'cave' soldier - though I find this spurious, myself and I am not too concerned with the cave bit of the scenario.

The basic debate is - did some British get captured alive at Isandlwana, obviously some answers may be in Julian's 'Essays 5', so replies on this forum may be 'redacted'. I personally believe it was very possible

I struggle to think of a concrete reason why the Zulus would put a rope around the neck of a dead British soldier - other than to drag him out of the cave (but this still seems a little bit of effort to go and find a rope etc, when he could probably have been dragged out by an arm or whatever). However, I am not familiar with the terrain around (or access to) 'the cave' - nor in fact which cave it was (if the cave incident actually happened).

However there seems only one reason why a rope was put round the neck of a live soldier.

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PostSubject: Re: Skeleton & rope?   Skeleton & rope? EmptySat Mar 24, 2018 10:34 am

I never understood why the solider with nope round his neck was linked to the cave solider, he was shot by Zulus. Why would they drag his body out to put rope round it, or why would they carry rope up to the cave.


Makes sense it was around a live soldier.

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Hi DB,

I think the theory was that after he was shot, they couldn't get him from his cave (the current favoured one is one you have to lie down it at the back - I believe), so to get him out, to try and rob any ammo (or whatever) or perform their rituals, they got a rope from somewhere (maybe the camp) and tied it round him to drag him out........

Not sure myself......

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Correction: "Julian and Frederic's essay 5"
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Julian Whybra wrote:
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Correction: "Julian and Frederic's essay 5"

Of course, sorry Frederic......
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Of course, that's fine! I was just making a point really. Fred's contribution to the essay in vol. IV was massive - in thinking, research, and in content - it is important to me that he should receive an equal share in the credit for it. The same is true in the vol. V essay...as you will see!
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Patrone morientium membris mutiletur
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Patrone morientium membris mutiletur

Thanks to Google - "Dying mutilation"......

So therefore 'alive' when the rope was attached? But how alive?
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PostSubject: Re: Skeleton & rope?   Skeleton & rope? EmptySat Mar 24, 2018 5:40 pm

Agonising over a latin phrase that neither party used at the time is a bit of a waste of effort. To my mind, the traditional explanation that the Zulu needed to perform cleansing rituals on those they had killed is surely sufficient reason for them to have extracted the body from a difficult location using a rope.

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Or possibly NOT a rope but a halter...which ended up not being required...
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PostSubject: Re: Skeleton & rope?   Skeleton & rope? EmptySat Mar 24, 2018 7:02 pm

Agonising over a latin phrase that neither party used at the time is a bit of a waste of effort, errr
what!. not so Steve.. sorry Sime.. not part of your original question.. but as Julian ref studies 4/5
i thought i would issue a teaser as part of my reply addressing the mutilation question (s).. till i
get a grip of 5 i will keep my powder dry so to speak. i don't throw away latin phrases lightly. as
said the context will be provided at a later date. to form part of the bigger picture.
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PostSubject: Re: Skeleton & rope?   Skeleton & rope? EmptySat Mar 24, 2018 7:03 pm

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Agonising over a latin phrase that neither party used at the time is a bit of a waste of effort. To my mind, the traditional explanation that the Zulu needed to perform cleansing rituals on those they had killed is surely sufficient reason for them to have extracted the body from a difficult location using a rope.

Steve Reinstadtler

Hi Steve/Julian

I'm not really agonising over much at all at the moment....apart from our family car being wrote-off yesterday but Les posted a phrase, I dunno where he got it from, Google told me what it meant.....

However back to your point, if all bodies were mutilated, yes I wouldn't agree more....but I believe some bodies were not mutilated, so I am not convinced the idea of mutilation was universally observed......

Julian: Sorry but I do not want to be thick but I'm not quite sure what the difference is between a rope & a halter......especially when it around a (potentially) live persons neck.....what other purpose could it have....

Maybe one day Frank or 90th can carry out an experiment and lie lifeless in 'the cave' whilst someone tries to pull them out......(of course without the use of a ropey halter - that may be going too far)

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PostSubject: Re: Skeleton & rope?   Skeleton & rope? EmptySat Mar 24, 2018 9:36 pm

Sorry to hear about the car Sime. I suppose that if it had been a halter rope it might indicate that the individual was attempting to catch a horse and so aid escape? Another thought - a pistol lanyard minus pistol?

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PostSubject: Re: Skeleton & rope?   Skeleton & rope? EmptySat Mar 24, 2018 9:46 pm

Thanks Steve, fortunately my wife was unharmed (shook up and upset but unharmed) - which is the important thing......I told the kids that "we can get a new car but new mummy's are harder to come by" - they are still whinging about having to walk to school...that's kids I spose....

I have often thought about it being an lanyard but I would assume that the finders would have recognised it for what it was and mentioned him being an officer.....

cheers anyway, Steve

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PostSubject: Re: Skeleton & rope?   Skeleton & rope? EmptySat Mar 24, 2018 9:57 pm

Apparently Mainwaring asked a doctor whether the skeleton was a white or black man - he said white. But that rather implies that there was no proof it was a soldier - what equipment might a voorloper or mulateer have had?

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what equipment might a voorloper or mulateer have had? remark's Steve..
Voorloper..
A whip, length's of rope.. ( knee haltering ) a big stick.. can't think of any -
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SRB1965 wrote:
Hi,

The following assumes that the body with the rope around his neck, was a fact.

I am currently in conversation on another forum about the skeleton found with a rope around its neck at Isandlwana.

I believe the discovery was made in June 1879 by Majors Black's party and was published in Mainwarrings account of events (in 1895) - but I may be wrong....

This fellow has always been associated with the 'cave' soldier - though I find this spurious, myself and I am not too concerned with the cave bit of the scenario.

The basic debate is - did some British get captured alive at Isandlwana, obviously some answers may be in Julian's 'Essays 5', so replies on this forum may be 'redacted'. I personally believe it was very possible

I struggle to think of a concrete reason why the Zulus would put a rope around the neck of a dead British soldier - other than to drag him out of the cave (but this still seems a little bit of effort to go and find a rope etc, when he could probably have been dragged out by an arm or whatever). However, I am not familiar with the terrain around (or access to) 'the cave' - nor in fact which cave it was (if the cave incident actually happened).

However there seems only one reason why a rope was put round the neck of a live soldier.

Cheers

Simon

There is an account somewhere on the forum, where bodies of British soldiers were found at Isandlwana with their hands bound behind their backs.
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Thanks, I will have to try to track it down

Cheers

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