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the Cape. Accordingly, with this money, five 
thousand families, principally of Scotch extrac- 
tion, were sent out to the Colony. These, hay- 
ing been landed at Algoa Bay, were located on 
the Eastern border, along the South- west banks 
of the Fish River, in the district of Albany. 
To these British settlers, grants of land were 
given ; every encouragement was held out to 
induce them to fix their locations as perma- 
nently as possible; and a promise of future 
protection was likewise stipulated, as not the 
least of these inducements. Accordingly, with 
true British energy and industry, they com- 
menced farming the land, building dwellings, 
and rearing stock ; and a few years saw them 
prospering beyond their own most sanguine 
expectations. The rapid increase, and improved 
breed, of their cattle, (always a tempting bait to 
the Kaffirs,) soon led these latter over the co- 
lonial line once more, and pillage again began 
— each year adding fresh instances to the list 
of thefts and robberies, perpetrated by these 
savage free-booters. 
To endeavour to put a stop to these thefts, , 
in the year 1830, the chief Macomo, the eldest 
but (according to Kaffir law) illegitimate son of 
the paramount chief Gaika, was deprived of a 
portion of land, in and about the Waterkloof 
and Kat river, within the neutral ground ; the 
