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It is said the River Kei is to be the future boundary of the 

 Colony, and that the country between the present Colonial 

 frontier and that point will be appropriated as the future 

 residence of the Fingoes ; and also that those Tambookies 

 under Vadanna, and Caffers under Pato, Kama, and Cobus 

 — who have shown such unswerving fidelity to the Colo- 

 nists throughout this trying period — are to have a share of 

 the forfeited territory. The whole, however, of this country 

 is, it is said, to be subject to British control, and the people 

 amenable to British jurisdiction. 



After perusing the foregoing statements, it will, no doubt, 

 be inquired, where now is the influence that Christianity 

 has been said to exercise over the minds of these people, 

 and what have the Missionaries accomplished for Caffraria, 

 seeing that the natives appear the same sanguinary men, 

 and that deeds as savage and relentless have marked the 

 present invasion, as any that have characterized their former 

 history. 



To this it may be replied, that the operation of Christian 

 principles over a savage mind is usually slow and gradual, 

 and that the labours of a few Missionaries amonffst so vast 

 a population, who, from their pastoral habits, are of neces- 

 sity scattered over an immense tract of country, could not 

 reasonably be expected in so short a period to have effected 

 any great change over the body of the people ; nevertheless, 

 amongst that portion which the Missionaries have been 

 enabled to assemble together for instruction at the different 

 Stations, the effects have been most cheering and satis- 

 factory. It is said that not one individual who had embraced 

 the doctrines of the Bible has joined his countrymen in their 

 invasion of the Colony ; they have all to a man reprobated 

 the measure as pregnant with the greatest evil, and as 



