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rain. At length it was agreed, that as the Dangwana was 
not suitable for a Mission-station, we were at liberty to go 
to the place we had fixed upon. 
July 8th, 1851.—This morning a messenger arrived from 
a petty captain, bringing word that the Englishmen had 
been driven from Natal by the Zoolas, and had arrived 
with a number of native dependents among the Amatusens 
(a small tribe over the Zimvooboo, subject to Maku), and 
that one of the Englishmen slept at Faku’s last night, and 
was now on his way to the station. Soon after Mr. William 
Fynn arrived. He stated that for several years past (two or 
three, I think) the English party at Natal, consisting of 
seven individuals, had lived unmolested, and had succeeded 
in establishing a regular trade, having occasionally a vessel 
with consignments of goods from America and St. Helena; 
but that lately they had reason to suspect that it was the 
intention of the Zoolas to fall upon them and destroy them 
in the night, as soon as an American vessel then in port 
had sailed. This sudden change in the feelings of the 
Zoolas towards them was owing to the falsehoods of a 
Caffer named Jacob, who, being well acquainted with the 
colony, and having recently visited it with John Cane, had 
heard reports of a projected settlement at Natal, and had 
contrived to alarm Dingaan by a report that a commando 
was shortly coming from the colony to take possession of 
the country. ixpecting to be attacked in the night, the 
three Messrs. Fynn fled, with part of their movable pro- 
perty, and about one hundred and fifty head of cattle 
accompanied by a number of the natives. Three days’ 
journey from Natal, the Zoolas came upon them in the 
night, killed about thirty of their party, chiefly women and 
children, and carried off their cattle. After a wearisome 
journey of. twenty-five days, they arrived in great distress 
