24 LIFE OF DA YID LIVINGSTONE, LL.D. 



well nigh overthrown his power, he visited the boundaries of the colony. A 

 farmer named Engelbrecht, and a Bastard Hottentot, fell the victims to his 

 fury, and their cattle and other property were carried off, to atone for the in- 

 juries inflicted by the machinations of the farmers. Africaner now became a 

 terror, not only to the colony on the south, but also to the tribes on the north. 

 The original natives of the country justly viewed him as a dangerous neigh- 

 bour, even though he had obtained, by lawful means, a portion in their 

 country. They considered him as the common enemy. This led to pilfering 

 and provocations on their part ; conduct which he was sure to pay back, in 

 their own way, with large interest. The tribes fled at his approach. His 

 name carried dismay even to the solitary wastes. At a subsequent period, 

 as I was standing with a Namaqua chief, looking at Africaner, in a supplicat- 

 ing attitude, entreating parties ripe for battle, to live at peace with each other : 

 Look,' said the wondering chief, pointing to Africaner, ' there is the man, 

 once the lion, at whose roar even the inhabitants of distant hamlets fled from 

 their homes ! Yes, and I ' (patting his chest with his hand), ' have, for fear 

 of his approach, fled with my people, our wives and our babes, to the moun- 

 tain glen, or to the wilderness, and spent nights among beasts of prey, rather 

 than gaze on the eyes of this lion, or hear his roar.' 



" After the general aspect of affairs began to settle in that part of the 

 country, where Africaner's head-quarters were, other distant and interior parts 

 of the country became a theatre, in which the inhabitants of the colony were 

 pursuing a bloody game, in shooting the aborigines, and carrying off their 

 cattle. The landrost of one of the colonial districts sent a message to Afri- 

 caner, requesting him to try and put a stop to these proceedings, and especially 

 those of a farmer, who, with his Bastard attendants, had esconced themselves 

 in a stronghold in the country. Africaner promptly obeyed the call, and as 

 he did not intend to fight them, he went with some of his chief men on oxen, 

 to recommend them peaceably to retire from the country in which they were 

 such a scourge. On approaching the temporary dwellings of these freebooters, 

 and within gunshot, the farmer levelled his long gnn at the small party, and 

 several slugs entering Africaner's shoulder, instantly brought him to the 

 ground. His companions immediately took up their arms, and the farmer, 

 knowing that their shots were deadly, kept out of the way, allowing the 

 wounded chief and his attendants to retire, which they did, and returned home 

 brooding revenge. 



" As soon as the slugs were extracted, and the wound partially healed, 

 though the arm was lamed for life, Africaner, who was not a man to be 

 frightened from his purpose, resumed his campaign ; and the result was, that 

 this marauder, under a Christian name, was driven from his stronghold, and 

 compelled to take refuge in the colony whence he had come. The success 

 which, in almost every instance, followed the arms of such a small and incon- 



