ally at an end.

After this there was no more actual fighting. Scattered bands were
dispersed and places occupied; but the Zulus lost all heart, and went
off at once to their villages. A hot pursuit was kept up after the
king, and he was finally captured and sent a prisoner to the Cape. The
troops were sent back to England as speedily as possible.

After the pacification of Zululand, Sir Garnet Wolseley carried out a
very dashing little expedition against Secoceni, who had long defied the
strength of the Boers and the authority of the English. His stronghold
was captured after sharp fighting, and for a time the South of Africa
was pacified.

CHAPTER FIFTEEN.

THE EGYPTIAN WAR--1882.

In the spring of 1882 a movement, in which the military were the
principal actors and Arabi Pasha the guiding spirit, took place in
Egypt; and although Tewfik, the Khedive, was not absolutely deposed, his
authority was set at naught. He had, from the commencement of his
reign, acted under English advice, and as there was a strong
anti-foreign element in the movement, considerable apprehensions were
excited lest the safety of the Suez Canal would be threatened, should
the revolution be carried to a successful end. The support given by the
English to the Khedive excited against us a strong feeling of hostility
on the part of Arabi's party, and the position grew so threatening that
an English and French fleet was sent to Alexandria to give a moral
support to the Khedive, and to protect the European inhabitants. The
situation was further aggravated by a serious riot in Alexandria on 11th
June, arising primarily from a quarrel between the natives and the lower
class of Greeks and Levantines. The riots spread, and a considerable
number of Europeans were killed and wounded.

Preparations were at once made for war, but before the troops could
arrive upon the scene a crisis occurred. Arabi's troops commenced
throwing up fresh batteries, in positions menacing the English fleet.
Admiral Seymour requested that the work should be discontinued; but as
it still went on, he sent in an ultimatum. This was not attended to,
and at the expiration of the time given, the British fleet opened fire
upon the Egyptian forts and batteries. The events of the action belong
rather to _Our Sailors_, than to the military branch of the service.
The firing continued all day, and by the afternoon the Egyptian
batteries were all silenced.

The next day