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Kei Kiver, form one of the three great branches 
of that nation, who have appeared in Southern 
Africa, who migrated thence from Northwards; 
and succeeded, about the year 1760, in subju- 
gating the aboriginal Hottentot and Bushmen 
possessors of that part of the soil. These latter 
then dispersed in various directions, with the 
exception of the Gonas, (such as the chief 
Pato,) who still remain and maintain their 
independence among them. With these latter, 
also, we have now a treaty, offensive and 
defensive. 
These Amakosa Kaffirs continued, from that 
time, to spread rapidly over the country, along 
the banks of the Great Fish Eiver. And, the 
game being plentiful in the very extensive bush 
surrounding that locality, they attempted to 
settle on the South-west of that river, being a 
part of the district originally ceded to the first 
Dutch settlers, and which was claimed, and had 
been partly taken possession of, by them. 
In the year 1780, their governor, Plett en- 
berg, then at the head of the Colony, succeeded 
in fixing formally, and with the consent of the 
Kaffirs, the colonial boundary at the Fish Ei- 
ver; and the district South of that river, now 
known as " Albany,' 5 was colonized by the 
Dutch boers, who hired the Kaffirs to live 
among them as cattle-herdsmen and servants. 
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