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in Hintza’s tribe, informed us that Batti had told him that 
Hintza had already commenced consulting the witeh- 
doctors on the propriety of his making open war on the 
colony; that they had discouraged him, saying that the 
Fingoes would fight for the English ; and further, that when 
Batti heard that Mr. Hully was proceeding to Butterworth 
he wept, saying, ‘I am sorry you are going to that place, 
as evil will come upon it, when all the traders are together. 
My last word to you is, go away from that place without 
delay,’ which he did by removing with his family to Clarkes- 
bury. 
«“ We found it impossible to preserve the cattle and 
horses of the Station at Butterworth, as the Caffers at- 
tempted to take them day and night, so that we were all 
completely worn out with watching and anxiety, and when 
the two traders, Eccles and Orton, reached Butterworth with 
the statement of their sufferings, inflicted with the sanction 
of Hintza, our eyes were opened to this Chief’s true cha- 
racter, which, as you are well aware, nothing but undeniable 
proofs of lies, guilt, and duplicity would have done, as I 
was prepossessed in his favour, and long believed him quite 
unconcerned in the war. 
«< We were also involved in great trouble from the impos- 
sibility of our restraining the people of the Station from in- 
terrupting the free passage of the stolen cattle past the 
Station, especially when some cattle passed having the brand. 
mark of Mr. Driver and Mr. Howse, though the people 
(Caffers) of the Station kept none, but delivered them back 
to the people from whom they had been taken. Yet this 
occasioned us much trouble: we therefore removed in the 
night of the 17th February, and as our party was strong, 
and in good spirits, we were not molested on the road. 
« There are immense numbers of Colonial cattle in 
