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more efficient system of policy than has hitherto 
been adopted, and to the establishment of a firm and 
settled intercourse between the colonists and native 
tribes. The following extract from a pamphlet lately 
published will be found to corroborate the statements 
already advanced relative to the progress of civili- 
zation amongst the Caffer tribes previously to the 
unhappy differences which have lately taken place. 
««Tfow long,’ said Gaika, one of their principal 
Chiefs, who obtained permission, some time before 
his death, to visit one of the most advanced military 
posts, ‘ are we to continue at war? Shall we never 
eat our corn together in peace?’ The officer he ad- 
dressed replied, ‘ Are we not at peace? and have 
we not been so for a very long time?’ ‘ Do you 
white men call this peace?’ replied the African ; 
‘it is not so with us; after our wars are over, we 
trade together. My people want beads, and knives, 
and hatchets, and your people want ivory and cattle ; 
let them exchange with each other by daylight, in- 
stead of shooting at them, when they by night cross 
yonder river. Let the waters of the Keiskamma 
flow on in peace to the great ocean, without being 
discoloured by our blood, and then we should know 
that war had really and indeed ceased.’ Happily 
for humanity a more liberal policy (although much 
is remaining yet to be done) has greatly improved 
the aspect of affairs since that period. Many hun- 
dreds of English traders are now residing, some 
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