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eestors' land, hallowed by victories and associations, is now 

 required for a cotton -spinning manufactory. Would these 

 otherwise loyal subjects become rebels, think you ? 



Now let us see if the treatment of the Kaffirs of Natal 

 is very different from this. It must be borne in mind that 

 the poor heathen, in addition to his natural amor patria, 

 believes firmly that the spirits of his fathers are watching 

 over him from the hills that they have during life inhabited ; 

 and that if he quits those hills, he, in a measure, with- 

 draws from their care. The Journal of the Bishop of Cape 

 Town, dated June 9th, 1850, states : " I have heard to-day 

 from a lady who lives in the neighbourhood, that the 

 chief, Umnini, of whom I have before spoken, removed 

 from his lands on the Bluff (Natal) last Friday. He 

 came to bid her farewell before he left ; for they had been 

 kind neighbours to each other. It was not without 

 sorrow that he quitted his birthplace, where he has resided 

 all his life, and withstood in his fastnesses the victorious 

 troops of Tshaka, who conquered the whole country, and 

 brought into subjection all the native chiefs, except this 

 one and another. But now we want his land ; it is 

 important for our growing settlement at D'Urban that it 

 should be in our possession; therefore he must go. He is 

 weak and we are strong." Although it is not sacrilege 

 to suppose a bishop might be mistaken, still we will ask 

 which of the two following is the more probable case : 



That the Lord Bishop of Cape Town knew perfectly 

 well what he was writing about, had good information of 

 the facts he mentioned, and merely forbore from using 

 stronger language on account of his holy character; or, 



