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CHAPTER X. 



Lieutenant Farewell and party settle at Natal — Fears entertained 

 for their safety — Captain King proceeds to their assistance — Is 

 wrecked in the Mouth of the Harbour — Builds a Schooner out of 

 the wreck— Returns to the Colony with two Ambassadors from 

 the Zoulah Chief Chaka — Alarm in the Colony at Chaka' s 

 approach — Ambassadors sent back to Natal accompanied by 

 Captain King— Cane reaches the Colony overland from Natal 

 — Farewell arrives with the accounts of the Death of Captain 

 King and Assassination of Chaka — Massacre of Farewell and 

 party — Queto and Tribe destroyed — Cowie and Green's Journey 

 overland to Natal — Their melancholy fate. 



In 1823 Lieutenant Farewell visited Port Natal, on 

 the eastern coast of Africa, in the Salisbury, com- 

 manded by Captain King, to establish a settlement 

 for the purpose of trading with the natives for ivory. 

 Finding that there was every prospect of its turn- 

 ing out a lucrative speculation, he returned into the 

 Colony to obtain a supply of building materials, 

 beads, brass-wire, and other articles esteemed valu- 

 able by the people. In 1824 he went again to Port 

 Natal, accompanied by twenty or thirty persons, and 

 by an agreement with the Chief Chaka, a powerful 

 sovereign in that country, purchased a district of 

 land, extending about thirty miles along the coast, 

 and nearly a hundred to the north-west. 



Owing to the disturbed state of the interior, aris- 

 ing from frequent contentions among the various 



