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Hintza's country. Umkondo, one of Hintza's captains on 

 the sea-coast, called his people together that his doctor 

 might strengthen them for the war, so that I have reason to 

 think that Hintza's tribe will openly join the enemy. Part 

 of the Colonial cattle entered Hintza's country along the 

 sea-coast^ and are deposited in the broken country near the 

 mouth of the rivers from the Kei to the Umtata : some 

 cattle have entered in the centre of the tribe, and have 

 passed by the Station, and are now in the laka River. 

 The people of Magwa have a great quantity of cattle near 

 the Colosa River : some have entered near the Tsoma River, 

 which runs into the Kei, but where they have gone we 

 know not. Hintza's people say they are in the Tambookie 

 country, but I think they are among Hintza or Yelloosoo's 

 people : Mr. Painton writes from Buntingville, that it is 

 reported there that Hintza is depositing the cattle in the 

 mountains north of the Amena. The country north of the 

 Amena is rough beyond anything I have seen in Africa; 

 some of the passes, through which the river Indeve runs, are 

 rugged and deep, but not bushy : this country is well known 

 to the Dutch farmers, who have resided there. It is a 

 matter of great regret that so many of the fine Colonial 

 cattle should be destroyed, as they are doubtless being 

 slaughtered daily. In all the parts of the Kei River the 

 Colonial cattle are numerous, principally draught oxen. 



'' On the 18th of March, the inhabitants residing on the 

 Station at Clarkesbury received the alarming intelligence 

 that the Ficani were descending from the mountains a 

 short distance in the rear, and attacking the tribes under 

 the Chiefs Tooboo and Deko. As soon as this was com 

 municated to the Europeans on the spot, several traders 

 proceeded to the scene of action for the purpose of assisting 

 the Tambookies in repelling the enemy. It appears, how- 



