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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 are 

 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 to 

 the boors to retaliate whenever a similar failure occurs on 

 their 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, as 



