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possession of which, it was believed, facilitated 
them much in secreting their booty. The pil- 
laging, however, still continued ; and Macomo, 
haying been proved accessory to it, was farther 
deprived of, and driven from, that other portion 
of country (likewise within the neutral ground, ) 
to which he had been permitted to retire after 
his expulsion from the former part. Both of 
these removals were in accordance with an order 
from the Government ; and such an order was 
certainly warrantable, because Macomo and his 
followers occupied both these places only by 
agreement, during pleasure and good behaviour. 
But still the last removal was effected under 
circumstances which gave much alarm to the 
colonists at the time ; and there is every rea- 
son to suppose that the general conclusion of 
the community was correct, in believing that 
this chief, incensed and exasperated by this 
step, was principally instrumental in inducing 
the rest of the Kaffirs again to revolt, and in- 
vade the Colony. This they did towards the 
end of 1834, when the second Kaffir war com- 
menced. 
Then the assegai and the torch began their 
deadly work along the whole Eastern border of 
the colony. The unfortunate frontier farmers, 
(most of whom were the original settlers of 
1820,) were pillaged of their flocks, herds, and 
