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already published. My journal having, however, 

 casually fallen into the hands of others, not sportsmen, 

 whose opinions I respect, and to whom it afforded 

 gratification, I have ventured to submit it to the 

 public, being assured that my habits of life, and 

 occupation in the details of military duty, wall af- 

 ford a ready excuse for the imperfections it contains, 

 more particularly when I add that it has passed 

 through the press without my personal corrections, 

 ai\d at a distance of some hundred miles from the 

 cantonment in which I am quartered. 



W. C. Harris. 



Belgaum, 15th July, 1838, 



POSTSCRIPT. 



August 1st, 1838. — Recent files of the Graham's 

 Town Journal, which have been received in India 

 since the following pages were printed, contain 

 a tragic sequel to the History of the Border Colo- 

 nists. It appears that in February last, an ad- 

 vanced party of the emigrants, led by Retief, 

 having negociated a formal treaty with Dingaan, 

 had been suffered to pass unmolested through the 

 territories of that chieftain, to Port Natal, in 

 the neighbourhood of which they had proposed to 

 estabhsh themselvos. Being lulled into perfect se- 



