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commander of the frontier, than whom no person is so 
well fitted by a knowledge of its localities and of the habits 
of the barbarians for that important post, proceeded with 
a considerable body of troops to the sources of the Om- 
tata River, the scene of Major Dundas’s late affair, from 
which he dislodged the residue of that very formidable pre- 
datory band, since ascertained to have been that of Man- 
tuanas, a Chief driven out of the eastward by Chaka, and 
following up the system of conquest and robbery which the 
oppressor had so successfully taught him to pursue. The 
routes taken up by these two separate expeditions, the first 
near the coast, and the latter far inland, and both above two 
hundred and fifty miles from the Colony, have added much 
to our logal information of the interior. | 
The unfortunate travellers, Messrs. Cowie and Green, 
(the particulars of whose journey have already appeared) 
visited the Portuguese settlement of Delagoa overland from 
the Colony, in 1829; and two years previously that well- 
known individual John Cane, formerly a mariner, had pene- 
trated to the same position from Natal, being sent there by 
orders of the Zulo King, Chaka; the notes and geogra- 
phical sketches of the former, with the information derived 
from the latter person, vivd voce, have given an opportunity 
to fill up a map, and to give some description of the people 
inhabiting the regions thus visited. | 
These numerous expeditions, to which may be added the 
itineraries of many Colonial traders, who have now tra- 
yersed almost every part of Cafferland, even one hundred 
_ and twenty miles beyond Port Natal, to the kraal of Din- 
gaan, the present Chieftain of the Zule people, with that 
of Dr. Smith, who, accompanied by Lieutenant Edie of the 
98th Regiment, made a scientific journey to Natal in 1882, 
have afforded us a tolerably well-defined knowledge of the 
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