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trained to arms^ and unassisted by military allies^ they have 

 by their own exertions surmounted the most formidable 

 opposition^ and, at an enormous sacrifice of human life, have 

 succeeded in humbhng* the two most potent of South African 

 king-s,— monsters, by whom had been either enslaved or 

 destroyed, every aborig-inal tribe occupying- the wide tract 

 that stretches from the Bay of Delag-oa to the Umzimvoo- 

 boo, and from the Indian Ocean to the deserts which border 

 the shores of the Atlantic. 



Note. — Since the above was written, advices have been 

 received in Eng-land from the Cape of Good Hope, bearing- 

 date the 5th of Aug-ust, 1840, which announced the death of 

 Ding-aan ; and that a new treaty had been neg-ociated with 

 his successor, Umparide. To this or some other treaty it 

 would appear that the Colonial Government had been a 

 party ; for, on the 16th of December, 1840, the following- 

 extract from a Graham's Town paper was pubhshed in the 

 Times : — ■ 



" A Graham's Town paper, received yesterday, alluding- to 

 the small success attending- the treaties entered into between 

 the Caftre chiefs and the Colonial Government, the depre- 

 dations on the border farmers being' of a more than ever 

 outrao-eous character, state that Sandillathe real chief of the 

 Gaika clans, had reached his majority, and that the treaties 

 ouo-ht to be renewed with him : Macomo and Tyalia being* 

 according- to the laws of Caffreland illeg'itimate, the treaties 

 made by them are alleged to be not binding- upon Sandilla, 

 and therefore it is said a g-ood opportunity is afforded, as far 

 as he is concerned, of rectifying- those defects in the treaties. 



A return of the depredations committed by the Caffres, 

 from September 1839 to July 1840, and called "the "reclaim- 

 able list," g-ave the result 64 depredations— 9'3 horses, 174 



