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the Wesleyan Missionary Society, and also to the Mis- 
sionary stationed there. For want of a sufficient number of 
waggons, but little of this could be removed, and there is 
reason to fear that the whole has shared the same fate as 
that of Mr. Brownlee’s Station. 
The conduct of the Chiefs Pato and Kama is spoken of 
in terms of warm approbation. ‘The moment they received 
the request from the Government to escort the traders and 
other British subjects towards the Colonial Frontier, they 
proceeded to make the necessary arrangements without a 
moment’s delay, Pato himself heading the escort which 
protected the party to the Beka, the country between which 
stream and the Great Fish River was occupied in force by 
the people under these friendly Chiefs. 
Mr. Brownlee states that the hostile Caffers fast retreated 
to the mountainous country to the north and north-east of 
Cafferland, a tract which from all accounts abounds with 
the most intricate and difficult fastnesses. Such a position 
will not be long tenable by a people like the Caffers, who 
are too much encumbered with cattle to lie concealed from 
the eye of an active pursuer. Their cattle constitutes their 
sole wealth, as well as the means of sustenance, and if once 
deprived of their herds, the people are themselves con- 
quered. 
On the 23rd of March, Colonel Smith, Chief of the 
Staff, accompanied by the Field-Cornets Greyling and 
Nel, and ten other burghers, proceeded from Fort Wiltshire, 
towards Block Drift, where they forded the Chusie River. 
From thence they took the direction of the Chumie Institu- 
tion to Lovedale; a Station formerly belonging to the Glas- 
gow Missionary Society, and which they found had been 
fired by the enemy. Here an athletic Caffer, fully armed, 
was observed to run into the ruins of a house, which was 
