Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Theophilus Shepstone" in English language version.
Donald Morris claimed that Somtseu, the name of 'a famed Xhosa hunter', had been sarcastically conferred on Shepstone by Zulus when he ran from an elephant during his expedition to Port Natal with Major Samuel Charters in 1838. This cannot be true, for Shepstone signs with this name more than two years before his first encounters with either Natal or Charters. ... Most likely the Oxford Dictionary of Biography is correct in stating that African playmates of his boyhood conferred the name on him ...
Donald Morris claimed that Somtseu, the name of 'a famed Xhosa hunter', had been sarcastically conferred on Shepstone by Zulus when he ran from an elephant during his expedition to Port Natal with Major Samuel Charters in 1838. This cannot be true, for Shepstone signs with this name more than two years before his first encounters with either Natal or Charters. ... Most likely the Oxford Dictionary of Biography is correct in stating that African playmates of his boyhood conferred the name on him ...
Donald Morris claimed that Somtseu, the name of 'a famed Xhosa hunter', had been sarcastically conferred on Shepstone by Zulus when he ran from an elephant during his expedition to Port Natal with Major Samuel Charters in 1838. This cannot be true, for Shepstone signs with this name more than two years before his first encounters with either Natal or Charters. ... Most likely the Oxford Dictionary of Biography is correct in stating that African playmates of his boyhood conferred the name on him ...