APPENDIX. 349 
“Our removal here from Butterworth (17th February) 
was occasioned by the strange conduct of Hintza and his 
people, which satisfied us that evil was intended towards us. 
« Reports continually reached us that Hintza intended 
the destruction of the Station, and that my life was to be 
taken with his own hand. So satisfied were the Fingoes of 
Hintza’s intentions, that they had spies out in the direction of 
the Amena (source of the Kai, where Hintza now is), and held 
themselves in readiness to resist Hintza, frequently telling 
me that all the Fingoes in Hintza’s tribe intended fighting 
for the Station, and that if I died it should be behind their 
shields. ‘The people of the Station were so suspicious, that 
if a Caffer came to speak to me they also came and stood 
near; and whenever I went out they followed me. When 
myself and Messrs. Palmer and Davis visited Hintza, at 
the Amena, about six weeks before I left Butterworth, he 
then professed the greatest friendship. In the night after 
the men had left our hut, Nomso and Noloko, two of 
Hintza’s principal wives, came to us and requested us to 
sing. After this Nomso (who is the principal wife, mother 
of Kili, the great son) commenced speaking, and said, 
among other things, ‘ You have done well in coming, you 
can now return in peace, as you have Hintza’s word; but 
take care—you can die. You can tread on a snake in the 
grass, and die like other men.’ From this we inferred that 
evil had been intended, but was for the present averted, 
though there was still need of our being upon our guard. 
«On our return to the Station we had peace for a short 
time, then the work of plunder again commenced day and 
night, a sufficient proof of Hintza’s insincerity, as no man 
would have dared to injure us in our property had Hintza 
discountenanced it. Mr. Hully,a trader, who speaks Caffer 
well, and who had been residing with Batti, a principal man 
