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property. Their homesteads were burnt over 
their heads, and, in many instances, their liyes 
were lost whilst they were endeavouring to 
save those of their relatives. The total loss of 
this luckless community at this period has 
been rated, and, we believe, not over-rated at 
£300,000. 
This war continued to ravage the Eastern 
frontier of the colony until the year 1835, when 
it was at length terminated by the then goverr 
nor, Sir Benjamin D ? Urban, who concluded a 
second treaty with the Kaffirs. This he had 
written out, and regularly signed and executed 
by them ; judging that one, so agreed to, and 
put on record, would be more binding upon 
them. By the terms of this treaty, the Kaffirs 
agreed to admit military possession of their 
country, and to become, henceforth, "British 
subjects." At the same time, Sir Benjamin 
D'Urban recorded his firm opinion to be, " that 
the expulsion of the Kaffirs from their fast- 
nesses in the Amatola Mountains was indispen- 
sible to the safety, and permanent peace and 
welfare, of the Cape Colony." He further stated, 
(what the late governor, Sir Harry Smith, even- 
tually found to be correct, and was endeavouring 
to effect when he was recalled home ; viz,) 
that the Great Kei Eiver would form the best 
and only secure frontier boundary for the Colony. 
