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all killed, Jonker after mucli persuasion got a com- 

 mando together to revenge the injured party, and stalled. 

 Once on a raid, the Hottentots did not much care whom 

 they attacked, and began by robbing a werft under 

 Kasheua, who had nothing to do vrith the matter in 

 question, di'ove off their cattle, and rode after the 

 natives — men, women, and chilcken, shooting them 

 down in all directions ; this he repeated elsewhere till 

 a large herd of cattle were brought together, and then he 

 retm'ned. Cornelius's tribe of Hottentots hearing of 

 Jonker's success, followed his example; they rode in a 

 friendly way to one of Kahikene's villages, (Mr. Kolbe's 

 fiiend at Sehmelen's Hope) and as the Damai-as were 

 employed in bringing them milk after the usual 

 fashion, they attacked them and massacred all they 

 could. From this time up to the Sehmelen's Hope 

 affair, nothing else had occm'red but fightings and 

 retaliations between the Namaquas and Damaras. 



I have the details in full of many of them, but they 

 are all alike, with little more than the name and 

 place varied. The consequence is, that although the 

 Namaquas have no trade whatever with the Damaras, 

 a steady export of Damara oxen goes on southwards 

 to our colony in di'oves of from 200 to 800 head of 

 cattle, which are bought here with far too little 

 inquiry as to how they have been obtained. In fact 

 I am assured in every quarter that of late years the 

 news of a trader's waggon being on the road has been 

 the signal for a general raid upon the Damai'as. 



Jonker had up to the present time acted very fairly, 

 but rather despotically to all the whites. He bad 



