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CHAPTER XLI. 



SKETCH OF THE EMIGRATION RESUMED — TREACHEROUS 



MASSACRE OF RETIEF AND HIS PARTY BY 



DINGAAN, KING OF THE ZOOLOOS. 



A THIRD Edition of this volume has afforded an opportunity 

 of resuming- the History of the Border Colonists^ and pre- 

 senting- to the reader who may have become interested in 

 the fortunes of those bold but short-sig'hted men, a truly 

 mournful sequel to the foreg-oing* tale. In the fierce and 

 sang-uinary conflicts already recorded^ will be found but the 

 prelude to new and more deadly strug-g-les. T>yed deep 

 before by intestine strife and violence^ the soil of ill-fated 

 Africa has now been delug-ed for months with a purple tide^ 

 flowing' alternately from the veins of her barbarous sons, and 

 of the lawless adventurers into her perilous wilds ; —History, 

 from its earliest pag-es down to the present leaf, furnishing- 

 no more trag-ic picture of massacre and retaliation — of rapine, 

 pillag-e, and reprisal, than will be found in the recent events 

 of this sing-ular emig-ration from the Colony of the Cape. 



Althouo'h we left the wanderers on the Vet Jlivihe makinjr 

 active preparations for wag'ing- against the Matabili, a war of 

 extermination — that project was never carried into execution. 

 Receiving- timely intimation of their desig-ns, the wily Mosele- 

 katse prudently withdrew to more secure quarters beyond 

 the Southern Tropic, and left the white intruders at liberty 

 to assume undisputed possession of his verdant dominions, 

 until an opportunity should present itself for striking- a 

 decisive blow. Discord next scattered her seeds among- the 



