132 IMPROVING STATE OF THE CAFFER COUNTRY 
with their families, in the very heart of the Caffer 
country, where they have erected shops, and are 
carrying on a mutually beneficial trafic, whilst the 
Missionaries, who have gradually increased and 
extended their excellent institutions to the very ex- 
tremity of some of the remoter tribes, have, by their 
uniform good conduct, cautious policy, and moral 
tuition, obtained such an influence over this un- 
tutored race, as none a few years back could possibly 
have anticipated. ‘To this the writer can bear ample 
personal testimony, from having twice visited their 
Institutions in this interesting country. Indeed it 
may be stated that the traders owe much to the influ- 
ence thus acquired by the Missionaries; for as the 
Government declines interfering in any dispute that 
may occur across the border, the Chiefs have such 
respect to the Missionaries, that the few bickerings 
which trading begets are soon settled. It is not 
attempted to be denied that robberies of cattle are 
still permitted by natives along the extreme border, 
but an alteration of the system at present pursued 
it is understood will shortly take place, which there 
is good reason to hope will speedily put an end to. 
such irregularities, by the establishment of sound 
moral checks, and a just and amicable policy *.” 
It is a circumstance much to be regretted that, 
* Advantages of Emigration to Algoa Bay and Albany, South 
Africa, by Thomas Phillips, Esq., one of the Justices of the Peace in 
that district, 1834. 
