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hazardous movement; and not only so, but to afford pro- 
tection to the inhabitants, should they be required to defend 
the place against these savage barbarians. During this 
period, reinforcements began to arrive from various quarters, 
amongst which was a body of eighty Hottentots from Port 
Elizabeth and neighbourhood. ‘This party on the way fell 
in with a detachment of the enemy, with whom a skirmish 
immediately took place. ‘The Caffers were soon repulsed, 
and the Hottentots continued their march, and reached 
town without molestation. One of their number was 
wounded in the arm by a musket-ball, discharged by a 
Caffer during the skirmish. 
Tt is next to impossible to collect the various melancholy 
incidents which have transpired since the commencement of 
this warfare: the public mind is perfectly sated with tales of 
rapine and plunder, as well as in such a state of feverish 
excitement, from the various rumours which are in circula- 
tion, that facts which are in themselves appalling, and which 
at any other time would engage deeply the public atten- 
tion, are passed by almost unheeded. 
Inthe Kat River the inhabitants have hitherto satseniiacel 
their position; they have assembled themselves together at 
four different points, and formed themselves into the same 
number of divisions for mutual defence. It is said that one 
of the inhabitants accidentally fell in with two Caffers, and 
that the latter inquired why the Hottentots were alarmed, 
and why they fled from their dwellings. ‘They assured him 
that the hostility of the Caffers was not directed against the 
Hottentots, but against the whites, and that while the former 
should be spared, the latter would be pursued with the bit- 
terest vengeance. But little importance would be attached 
to this report were it not confirmed by facts of undeniable 
authenticity. Although immediately on the borders of 
