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SGTTTHEEN AFRICA. 
A quarrel, however, arose between them, and 
ended in an insurrection of the latter. Haying 
expelled the Dutch from their farms, and taken 
forcible possession of them, and of the adjoining 
country to about a hundred miles inland, the 
Kaffirs commenced and extended their preda- 
tory devastations throughout its whole extent; 
that is to say, so far south as the Gamtoo or 
Sunday Slyer, 38 miles North of Algoa Bay. 
The revolutionary war, which was being carried 
on in Europe at this period prevented the 
Dutch home Government from sending out 
troops to the aid of their colonists at the Cape, 
and likewise deterred the local legislature there 
from sparing any far from Cape Town. And, 
when at length the English attacked and took 
the Colony, in 1795, no permanent measures 
were adopted by them against the Kaffirs, as 
the intention of holding the Colony was so soon 
afterwards abandoned. "When, however, the 
Colony was recaptured by the British, in 1806, 
it was with very different intentions. More 
active measures, consequently, were speedily 
adopted, and set on foot, for freeing the country 
from these Kaffir freebooters and invaders, and 
for driving them back beyond the Eastern 
boundary line, as first permanently fixed in the 
year 1780, by the Dutch governor, Plettenberg: 
viz, the Great Fish Eiver. These measures 
