 Seeing the manner in which our wounded had been mutilated after being dragged from the hospital ... we were very bitter and did not spare wounded Zulus".Laband, in his book "The Zulu Response to the British Invasion of 1879", accepts the estimate of 600 that Shepstone had from the Zulus.Samuel Pitt, who served as a private in B Company during the battle, told "The Western Mail" in 1914 that the official enemy death toll was too low