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desired them to shew us the place where they had en- 
camped: one of the men led us a short distance up the 
river, and shewed us several kraals or native villages, where 
the huts were burned down, and from which the marauders 
had taken away all the cattle, which formed the principal 
means of the people’s subsistence. He shewed us the 
skeletons of two women who had been murdered by these 
freebooters : they also pointed out a spot at a short distance, 
where a skirmish had taken place between some of Dapa’s 
people and the enemy, and where several men had been 
killed. This tribe, however, had not any general battle 
with the Fitkanie, but the Amaponda nation, under Um- 
yayki and Faku, had fought with them, and been worsted. 
The party of the enemy who crossed the Umtata river 
to the place where we saw the remains of their fires, are 
said to be only a small division of them; judging, however, 
from the number and size of their fires, they must have been 
a numerous body of people. ‘They had only left this spot 
eight days before we arrived here. Having seen enough 
to impress our minds with a strong feeling of the horror of 
African warfare, and to induce the prayer, that the gospel 
may speedily produce peace among these nations, we pro- 
ceeded to the large and beautiful river Umtata, where we saw 
two large herds of hippopotami, and as we had no flesh for 
ourselves or the people, Lochenberg shot one of them, and 
it was very good eating. ‘The natives are very fond of the 
flesh of the hippopotamus, and we were glad, by means of 
Lochenberg’s musket, thus to afford them, in their present 
distressing circumstances, quite a feast. It was amusing to 
see the dexterity and rapidity with which they cut up, into 
more than a hundred pieces, the immense carcase of this 
animal, which though not full grown, was much larger than 
a full grown fat ox. 
