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hope of rendering further service to the ruined and scattered Bakwains, Dr. 

 Livingstone was, at the date of his latest communication, the 10th November 

 ult., on the eve of starting once more for the north, with a view to ascertain 

 the practicability of introducing the Gospel to the people inhabiting the lake 

 region." 



The following from the Missionary report for 1856, gives a graphic 

 picture of the consequences resulting from the continued hostility of the 

 Boers : — 



" The Colony of the Cape, under the influence of its present enlightened 

 and benevolent Governor, already exhibits decisive indications of social 

 improvement ; and the measures of the Colonial Legislature have generally 

 been distinguished by a spirit of equity and conciliation towards the coloured 

 classes to which aforetime they have been strangers. In the Eastern District, 

 indeed, sustained by the influence of the Graham's Town Journal, the old 

 calumnies continue to be reiterated against the Missionaries of our Society, 

 and the Native tribes, especially such as are connected with the Missionary 

 Institutions; but it is hoped that the Hottentots and Fingoes, who have 

 embraced the Gospel, will be enabled by well doing to put to silence the 

 ignorance and malignity of their calumniators. 



"Beyond the present boundary of British rule, however, the treaty formed 

 in the year 1852 with the Trans Vaal Boers by Major Hogg and Mr. Owen, 

 the Commissioners of our Government, threatens the most dangerous results 

 to the liberty and lives of the aborigines. It will be remembered that while, 

 by this treaty, there was granted to these old adversaries of British interests 

 the free importation from the Colony of fire-arms and ammunition, the same 

 right was strictly denied to the Native tribes; and thus they were left without 

 the means of self-defence against the hostile aggressions of these invaders of 

 their country. The influence on the minds of the natives, thus delivered over 

 to the tender mercies of their enemies, will be seen in the burning words of a 

 Native Chief addressed to Mr. Moffat : — 



" Do you not see," said he, " that, without a fault on our part, we have 

 been shot down like game ? Do you not see that we are reduced to poverty 

 by the Boers, who are eating our meat, and drinking our milk ?" and, raising 

 his voice to a higher key, he asked — "Where are our children? When 

 fathers and mothers He down at night they ask — ' Where are our children ?' 

 and when they rise in the morning they ask — ' Where are our sons and our 

 daughters?' and because there is none to answer they weep. They have 

 wept this morning, they will weep again to-night. Are the Boers to be per- 

 mitted to kill us that our children may become their slaves? Did we ever 

 injure them ? If we did, let the Boer whom we injured, or whose sheep and 

 goats we stole, come and bear witness. Is it because we have not white skins 

 that we are to be destroyed like libatana (beasts of prey). Why do the 



