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THE NINTH WAR : KAFFIR WAR. 



in 1846, when this cruel war began, her dominion extended over 

 260,000 square miles; and to-day, by aggression and annexation, it 

 amounts to 373,683 square miles. 



When the Dutch ceded their South African Colony to Great 

 Britain in 1806, the whole of South Africa was the property of the 

 Kaffirs. How has it come into the possession of England ? Not 

 by purchase, for nobody ever heard of our paying for it ; not by fair 

 and honest treaty; not by any principle of righteous acquisition. 

 How then ? By violence, and swindling the rightful owners ; by 

 driving them out, ruthlessly and relentlessly at the edge of the 

 sword, from the inheritance of their fathers. 



The origin of the war in 1835 arose from this lawless spirit of 

 British aggression, and the Kaffirs were forced into resistance against 

 these encroachments, which finally terminated in the assumption by 

 Great Britain of the whole of the territory beyond the Fish River. 



In 181 1, England first waged war against the Kaffirs. We took 

 no prisoners; every Kaffir who was caught was killed, until the whole 

 people were driven across the great Fish River. 



In 1819, another Kaffir war, which resulted in further extension of 

 territory. 



In 1835, another Kaffir war, on the miserable pretext of cattle 

 stealing; and an army was organised, under the command of an Eng- 

 lish officer, which invaded the Kaffir territory, seized, burnt and slew 

 in every direction. This was a terrible and stern revenge. 



The origin of the war, under Sir Harry Smith, against the Kaffirs 

 in 1846 was on the absurd pretext that two Kaffirs stole an axe, 

 and when imprisoned were rescued by their own people; and in this 

 war England was of course victorious, and the Kaffirs were driven 

 across the Kei river. 



THE NINTH WAR: KAFFIR WAR. 



1850 TO 1853. 



In 1850, came the bloodiest struggle in which the Cape 

 Colony ever engaged; it was a kind of sacred war, to which the 

 Kaffirs were roused by the preaching of one of their prophets, and it 



