.3'2C EXPEDITION INTO 



king's favourite body-servant, were charg-ed to pray for the 

 renewal of a treaty of peace with the white men, whose 

 power the despot acknowledg'ed to have been made to feel 

 and to respect. An audience being* g-ranted on the 28th 

 b}^ the Council of Kepresentatives, the commandant of the 

 British g'arrison at the port was invited to witness the con- 

 ference, which took place on an open g-rass plain overlooking- 

 the sea. As an earnest of the king's sincerity, upwards of 

 three hundred sleek horses which had fallen into his hands 

 during" the various forays, were delivered by the ambassa- 

 dors, who sued for peace in the most abject terms in behalf 

 of their sovereio-n. ''- Our kino- " said thev, '•'' havino- been 

 driven forth from his strono-hold by the thunder and lio-htninff" 

 of the Amaboro, and forced to betake himself, like a wild 

 beast, to holes and caverns, has become like an infant, and 

 now tenders to his conquerors the humble assurance, that 

 the Zooloo taro-e and assesi-ai shall be no more found in the 

 hands of the warriors, but shall hang" rusty on the walls of 

 their dwelling's." A treaty was then concluded, by which 

 Conquin and Cong-uana, on the part of their royal master, 

 ag"reed to relinquish for ever to the emig-rants, the lands 

 which were ceded to Retief south-west of the Tuo-ala, as far 

 as the Umzimvooboo — to deliver up the whole of the arms, 

 cattle, and booty, which had been captured by the Zooloos, 

 — and to cultivate in future the most cordial and friendly 

 relations. In the negociations which led to this amicable 

 arrano'ement, the British commandant interfered no further 

 than to secure the attainment of stipulations which mig*ht 

 obviate a further effusion of blood ; and whilst the Colonial 

 Government thus became no party to the convention, and 

 stands pledg'ed in no deg'ree for the observance on either side 

 of any of its provisions, so neither does it recognize the 

 treaty as affecting* in any deg'ree, the question between Her 



