Editing Sipho

{{People|name=Sipho Tsuluka Dlamini|dob=c. 1799-1800|service=[[Aerial Corps]]|rank=Cadet|nationality=[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xhosa Xhosa]|billets=Runner for [[Temeraire]]}}

== Biography ==

[[Demane]]'s younger brother. After they were taken to Britain on board of [[HMS Allegiance]] [[William Laurence|Laurence]] made them both runners in [[Temeraire]]'s crew.

After Laurence was convicted of treason, [[Berkley]] took Sipho and Demane under his wing. Although Demane was assigned to [[Arkady]], Berkley managed to keep Sipho in his ground crew due to his youth, as he was not even nine.

When Laurence - technically still under a death sentence - and Temeraire rejoined the Aerial Corps during Napoleon's occupation of Britain, Demane and Sipho returned to them. 

Sipho was extremely quick to learn.  Both he and Demane learned English and [[Durzagh]] in addition to their native Xhosa, but where Demane spoke English with a thick accent, Sipho spoke it flawlessly. He also learned Chinese, a few native Australian languages, and possibly others. He soon began to outstrip both Demane and [[Emily Roland]] at lessons.

In 1838 Sipho Tsuluka Dlamini published ''The Tswana Kingdom: A Brief History,'' a work in three volumes.

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