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to pay Berends a visit during the next moon, and it 
was feared that if he put this threat into execution 
serious consequences would result to all the missions 
in that quarter. Berends had returned with the re- 
mainder of his waggons and people, in a discomfited 
state; and considerable anxiety was manifested as to 
his future proceedings. It was a matter of no small 
satisfaction that Griqua Town was entirely free from 
the guilt of this shameful outrage, as not a single 
individual residing within the district of Waterboer 
Was in any way connected with the affair. 
Mr. Archbell, whose track is marked out on the 
map, visited Matakatzee in 1829, and gave me an 
interesting account of his interview with that Chief, 
the particulars of which I insert in his own words— 
“ After travelling twelve days from Plaat Berg, 
through a depopulated country, I came to an immense 
nation, who call themselves Zoulahs, who, at a rea- 
sonable estimate, cannot be fewer than from sixty to 
eighty thousand. ‘Their towns are numerous, and 
densely spread over a country two hundred miles in 
extent, and one of the finest ever beheld. They are 
under a Chief named Matakatzee, a brother of the 
late great Chaka, from whom he fled, with many 
followers, about twelve years ago.” 
“ When he left Chaka he had but few cattle, but 
having made his way into the interior by force of 
arms, he took the property of its tribes, some of 
whom he annihilated, others he took prisoners, and 
