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CHAPTER II. 
Berends’s Attack on Matakatzee—Description of Griqua Town—Wa- 
terboer—Bechuana Village—Litakou—Female Agriculturists— 
Crocodiles—Inhabited Tree. 
From Mr. Wright I learned the following particu- 
lars of the disturbances occasioned by the attack of 
Berends’s party on the Zoulah Chief. Berends had 
for some time been adopting secret measures to make 
a formidable expedition against this powerful tribe of 
Caffers in the interior; and from the certainty of 
conquest, and the immense number of cattle pos- 
sessed by the Zoulahs, had succeeded in drawing after 
him, together with the Bergenaars, a large body of 
Griquas, Corannas, Bushmen, and Bechuanas, accom- 
panied also by several traders from the colony, who 
were professedly on a hunting expedition. 
The Commando left Berends’s place about the 
beginning of June, and proceeded on horseback un- 
til within three days’ journey of the Zoulahs, where 
the waggons were to remain during the attack. From 
this place a letter was written by a trader, stating, 
that, on the llth of July, Berends dispatched six 
hundred horsemen, armed with guns, and one thou- 
sand foot, to attack the Zoulahs, whilst he and some 
others remained by the waggons, On the 16th, 
