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no right to dispose of their lands without their con- 
sent. Some time afterwards, Makomo, the son of 
the late Gaika, re-established his clan on a certain 
tract of the Neutral Territory, by the connivance of 
the Colonial Government. At length, however, this 
land, a very fine and beautiful tract, was wanted for 
the purpose of forming a Hottentot settlement, and 
Makomo, whose people were charged with commit- 
ting various depredations on the Colony, was warned 
to remove with his clan from the lands in question; 
but he refused, alleging that they had never been 
ceded by his father, and entering into a dispute as 
to the boundaries fixed in 1819, which he maintained 
preserved a portion of the Kat River Mountains, as 
Caffer Territory. The colonial Government, how- 
ever, notwithstanding the mediation of some of the 
Missionaries, persisted in its claim, and the Caffers 
were forcibly expelled by our troops, their huts being 
burned to prevent them from returning to occupy the 
lands. 
“ I have the more especially detailed this proceed- 
ing, because I believe it has a very close connexion 
with the causes of the recent irruption into Albany, 
The Caffers may have been chafed by the foolish, not 
to say unjust practice, of pursuing stolen cattle beyond 
the boundary, and making reprisals not always upon 
the guilty parties, but frequently upon those who had 
no connexion with the transaction, nor any means of 
preventing it;—they may have been vexed in this 
