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SOUTHERN AFRICA. 
lieutenant-governor on the frontier, cancelling 
Sir Benjamin D'XJrban's former plan on the 5th 
day of December, 1836, by proclamation "re- 
nounced the allegiance of the said chiefs and 
tribes and in a third treaty with the Gaika 
chiefs and tribes, bearing the same date, agreed 
u that the boundary between the said Colony and 
the territory restored to the Kaffirs by pro- 
clamation of this clay, is, and shall be under- 
stood to be, that which was agreed upon in the 
year 1819, between the then governor, Lord 
Charles Somerset, and the Kaffir chief Gaika, 
u viz, a line drawn along the Keiskamma Eiver, 
and so across the IS T orth-west. The fourth arti- 
cle provided that this territory between the 
Keiskamma and Kat Rivers was to be held by 
the Kaffirs as a loan; and the next article 
enacts that the "territory shall never be re- 
claimed except in case of hostility committed, or 
a war provoked by the said chiefs and tribes, or in 
case of a breach of this treaty." 
This territory, then and thenceforth, was 
styled the "ceded territory;" and, no occupation 
of the land by Europeans being permitted, the 
Great Fish Eiver once more became the actual 
colonial boundary line. So far all seemed well ; 
the act of concession was on the side of mercy, 
and had it succeeded, as was anticipated by 
some, in making the Kaffirs content, and so 
