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and continued our journey; but we had not advanced more 
than ten miles when all was again thrown into confusion. 
By the carelessness of our driver, the waggon was overturned, 
with Mr. Fraser and myself sitting in it at the time, It 
rolled down a steep bank, and went all to pieces over our 
heads. My companion escaped with a sprained ancle, and I 
had one of my ribs broken. During the rest of the journey, 
the jolting of the waggon kept me in perpetual torture. 
* The Caffres were constant visitors to us at Algoa Bay. 
They used to come in parties of twenty or thirty at a time. 
Their chief view in making these visits was to receive some 
trifling presents which the Landrost was in the habit of making. 
to them; and to enable him to fulfil this duty, without 
detriment to his purse, Government supplies him with a 
store of trinkets, such as knives, small looking-glasses, beads, 
buttons, sheet-copper, and so forth, which he is authorised 
to distribute at his discretion. He likewise supplies them 
with provisions during their stay at the garrison, for they 
never carry any food with them on these journeys; but apply 
to the boors as they travel along, who seldom think it 
prudent to refuse. Such of them as show any reluctance in 
this respect, or treat those sturdy beggars with incivility, are 
Sure to have part of their cattle driven away on the first 
favourable Opportunity. Depredations of this nature afe 
daily committed on the outskirts of the colony; and so much 
do these marauders presume on the lenity of Government, 
that they have been known, more than once, to drive off 
cattle from within a few miles of the cantonment. 
“ Conga, the chief of one of these erratic tribes, has had 
the boldness to advance with his whole kraal into the very 
heart of the district, where he still remains with upwards of 
four thousand head of cattle. As an apology for this intrusion» 
he urges the failure of water in his country, owing to the 
unusual dryness of the season; and offers full permission t0 
the boors to retaliate whenever a similar failure occurs — 
o side. The latter, however, are not quite satisfied with 
this arrangement, and would fain expel him by force; but 
Government very prudently declines coming to extremity, 9? 
