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authorizing a fair at one of their border forts on the Keis- 
kamma, and subsequently, in 1830, allowing the traders to 
wander as they listed through the Caffer country, by which 
permission the whole territory from the eastern frontier to 
Delagoa Bay has now been traversed and described, and a 
number of traders have settled themselves in the Caffer 
country as permanent residents, whose example must. lead to 
the civilization of the natives. This trade, at first despised, 
has already brought into the British settlement above 
200,000/., and its annual value (which has progressed from 
year to year) is now stated as worth 34,000I. sterling. 
In May, 1824, a party under Lieutenant Farewell, sub- 
sequently joined by Lieutenant King, both officers of the 
Royal Navy, settled themselves at Port Natal, for the pur- 
pose of trade, and although that enterprise has not realized 
the expectations with which its originators set out, chiefly 
owing to a want of subordination and concert in the persons 
composing it, (precautions of the first importance to be 
attended to in a savage country by a company of adyen- 
turers, distantly removed from, and destitute of the support 
of a recognised government ;) it has still been of great service 
in extending the opportunity of our inquiries into the state of 
the surrounding territory. Major Dundas, of the Royal Ar- 
tillery, and Civil Commissioner of the Albany District, with 
a party of Colonial youth, sons of the British settlers, volun- 
teers for the occasion, were despatched in 1828, to recon- 
noitre the forces of the Zulo Chief Chaka, then supposed to 
be advancing upon the Colony, with the intent to subdue and 
exterminate all the intervening nations. ‘This party pene- 
trated nearly as far as the Omzemyoubo, or St, John’s River, 
having, on their return, fallen in with, and beaten, a party of 
marauders, mistaken for the van of the Zuloes; and in the 
same year, Colonel Somerset, the active and most efficient 
