30 ATTACK THE ZOULAH CHIEF. 
news arrived at Griqua Town of the defeat of Be- 
rends’s Commando, with great loss. This statement, 
however, was not generally believed in the country, 
as nothing had been anticipated but the certain de- 
struction of the poor Caffers, and an immense booty, 
to be enjoyed on the return of the rapacious mur- 
derers. 
On the 19th, one of the traders above-mentioned 
arrived at Campbell, and made the following state- 
ment. ‘That berends’s Commando had attacked the 
Zoulahs, who fought bravely, but that at length the 
followers of Berends had succeeded, as they thought, 
in destroying all the Caffers, and had driven away the 
whole of their cattle that were to be found. The 
second night after the attack, when the victors were 
enjoying themselves, securely as they presumed, on 
the fruits of their violence, the Chief of the Zoulahs, 
with an army of .reserve, sallied from the adjacent 
mountains, to which he had retired on hearing of the 
approach and intentions of Berends. He fell upon 
the Commando, and soon succeeded in routing the 
marauders, killing four hundred of the Griquas, 
wounding several, and cutting off a great many Co- 
rannas and Bechuanas. He retook all the eattle, to- - 
gether with two hundred and fifty horses, and three 
hundred guns of the Commando, killed the horses, 
and on the following morning burned them with his 
dead and wounded enemies in a heap. 
The Caffer Chief then sent a message, threatening 
