38 STUURMAN. 
been allowed the smallest respite from their suffer- 
ings. They had been hunted from rock to rock, and 
when they had no cattle to satisfy the rapacity of 
their murderers, they were required to give the pro- 
duce of their lands, the offspring of their bodies, and 
frequently their own lives. ‘This tale of woe, related 
by this interesting Chief, was truly affecting. He 
continued with us during the night. 
20th. The Chief’s brother accompanied us to 
the surrounding fountains. On our way we met a 
party of Bashuta, who were coming to acquaint 
Mosema of a Coranna commando, that had made an 
attack upon them early in the morning. The com- 
mando, they said, had taken their few remaining 
cattle, with all their children, and had killed five 
men with a number of women. ‘They left them at 
their town feasting upon the produce of their year’s 
labour. They sat down upon the ground while they 
related the sad story, and seemed as if spent by the 
exercise of body and mind.” 
The following extract from the letter of a gentle- 
man, on whose information full reliance may be 
placed, details some atrocious acts lately perpetrated 
by Stuurman, on the inoffensive Bechuanas :— 
“ We have not heard of Stuurman for some time. 
In his late attempt to enter the Bechuana country, 
he murdered perhaps hundreds of poor people at the 
Long Mountains, on his route from the Orange 
River to the bed of the IKXtruman River, about forty 
