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swept off at one fell swoop, and they themselves cast upon 
the world houseless wanderers. A communication from this 
place, stating the determination to abandon the village, has 
the following affecting passage :—‘“I have much pleasure 
in mentioning the good feeling which exists amongst us 
under all these distressing circumstances. We leave behind | 
the whole of our property and cattle, the result of fifteen 
years hard labour and perseverance, and are reduced to 
mere beggary. The conveyances we have will not contain 
the women and children; many will have to walk, as some 
of the waggons are without oxen, the Caffers having stolen 
them. On their route several parties of Caffers presented 
themselves, and were gallantly pursued by the young men 
who formed the escort. In these skirmishes two Caffers 
were killed, and several wounded.” 
During the whole of Sunday the 28th accounts kept pour- 
ing in from various quarters, all of the same gloomy character, 
and plainly shewing that the whole of that part of the colony 
extending from the Winterberg to the sea, and from the Man- 
canzana to the Bushman’s River, and containing at least 
six thousand square miles, was entirely in the occupation 
of the Caffers; that they had swept off nearly the whole of 
the cattle; and that the inhabitants who had been spared 
were plunged into a state of the most distressing destitution. 
St. George’s church presented a scene equally novel 
and affecting: instead of being used for divine worship 
as usual, nothing was heard but the din of arms, and 
the noise and bustle of a guard-house in a time of war. 
About nine at night divine worship was performed by the 
Acting District Chaplain, amidst an assemblage, which 
presented a scene that could not fail to awaken the most 
painful and interesting associations. The gallery was prin- 
cipally filled with females and children, driven from their 
