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Already are seven thousand persons dependent upon 
the government for the necessaries of life. The land is 
filled with the lamentations of the widow and the fatherless. 
The indelible impressions already made upon myself by the 
horrors of an irruption of savages upon a scattered population, 
almost exclusively engaged in the peaceful occupation of 
husbandry, are such as to make me look on those I have 
witnessed in a service of thirty years, ten of which in the 
most eventful period of war, as trifles to what I have now 
witnessed ; and compel me to bring under consideration, as 
forcibly as I am able, the heart-rending position in which a 
very large portion of the inhabitants of this frontier are at 
present placed, as well as their intense anxiety respecting 
their future condition. 
The Graham’s Town Journal of the 22nd of January 
states, the most remarkable events we have to record during 
the past week, relating to the affairs of this frontier, are, the 
arrival of his Excellency the Governor at Graham’s Town, 
and the return of the party under the command of Major 
Cox, of the 75th Regiment, which has been directed to 
scour a portion of the Caffer territory. This detachment 
having crossed the Colonial boundary, and attacked Eno’s 
kraal, moved forward to the kraalof the Chief Tyali, the 
most active and daring of the confederate Chiefs. Here 
they found the place abandoned—not a human being to 
be seen —nor any cattle of all the immense herds which 
had been swept out of the Colony. ‘The party contented 
themselves, therefore, with firing the deserted huts, and 
then returned to Graham’s Town, which they reached on 
Sunday last. 
Previous to quitting this part of the country, some of the 
party were despatched to the Chumie Institution, belonging 
to the Glasgow Missionary Institution, for the purpose of 
