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(probably Major Baker) whom he described as fighting most gallantly to the 
last and only killed by overpowering numbers. The author has also every 
reason to conclude that all were killed there and then and that no previous 
torture of any kind was attempted by the Kafifirs. . 
Two days had passed before their bodies were discovered and brought to 
Sir George Berkeley’s camp then pitched on the banks of the Komgha stream, 
a small tributary of the Kei, about ten miles from the spot where they fell. 
Here they were hastily interred in one grave, but in the month of August, 1850, 
only a few months before the present Kaffir outbreak, the bodies were fortu- 
Fic. 1.—Etanga Valley from railway. The Quizzyhota, showing the horizontal 
Karroo rocks above and the bare faces of dolerite below. 
nately removed and reinterred in an unmolested and shortly to be consecrated 
grave beneath the western tower of Trinity Church, now in course of erection 
at King. 
The woodcut of the scene accompanying Mr. Fleming’s account 
is taken from about the thirty-second milestone on the newly con- 
structed Amabele—Butterworth railway; this, and the fact that 
the Quizzyhota faces northwest, clearly identify the actual scene 
of the slaughter. Locally the abrupt mountain opposite the Quizzy- 
hota and separated from it by the gorge of the Etanga,* which forms 
a much more prominent landmark from the level of the river, is 
t Ftanga is a Kaffir word meaning a “‘place where the cows are kept.” The best 
cows are kraaled round the huts, but the surplus are sent out to some sequestered 
place, usually inclosed, as this particular valley is, by inaccessible cliffs, so that by 
merely fencing the narrow opening the cattle are prevented from wandering. 
