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killing all the people on the Umgazi.” She says, “Jama 
is great, therefore I was afraid to speak out, therefore I 
accused that thing Gecani, that thing that is only a wo- 
man.” Jama expecting soon to be condemned by an um- 
lahlo, endeavoured lately to escape with his cattle in the 
night, having first muzzled them, lest their lowing should 
cause him to be discovered; but he was prevented by his 
family, who threatened to alarm the place if he took one 
beast with him ; so the old man, finding he could not be per- 
mitted to take his cattle, could not bear to leave them be- 
hind, and remains at home waiting patiently the issue. 
Jan. 6th, 1832.—Heard to-day that the sister of one of 
the men residing on the Station, attempting to leave her 
kraal, among the Amatembu near the Bashee, in order to 
reside with her brother on the Station, was murdered in the 
path, by people from the kraal she had left, who disap- 
proved of her coming to reside here. For this I can obtain 
no redress, as the thing is difficult to prove; and even if 
clearly proved, the life of a poor woman of no rank would be 
considered as amply atoned for by the payment of a calf! 
23rd. Brother Shepstone ,and I left Morley to attend 
the District Meeting at Graham’s Town. During my 
absence from the Station, Dr. Smith and Lieutenant Edie 
visited the Station on the way to Natal, to which place the 
Doctor has been sent by his Excellency the Governor of © 
the Colony, in order that he may bring a faithful account 
of its capabilities. Soon after I left, Jama, the old man, 
and Bokowva (who was driven from the Station for his 
cruelty to poor Gecani, by Mr. Shepstone, as related in my 
journal of last-May,) were both seized and tortured on a 
charge of witchcraft. Mr. Painton interfered in the only 
way likely to be of service to them, by claiming them both 
as debtors on account of the food and medicine given to the 
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