54 SOUTHERN AFRICA. 
The abandonment of Kaffraria, has also (we 
are aware) been largely and widely spoken of, 
in England, of late. It has been asserted that 
this may be effected without the least detri- 
ment to our retention of the old Colony, and 
therein of Cape Town and Simon's Town, as 
military and naval depots. 
Nothing could he more fallacious than this 
supposition ! Wherever the colonial boundary 
is, there the Kaffirs will be ; their inherent love 
for plunder being too strong, not to keep them 
always as close to the colonist's cattle as they 
can be. 
If Simon's Town was our only possession in 
Africa they would be located in Hottentot 
Holland mountains, and our colonists and set- 
tlers would one and all be sacrificed. Such in- 
justice to them should not be contemplated ; 
when by maintaining the present connections, 
and working out steadily the policy so well and 
so energetically re-established by the late Sir 
George Cathcart, a permanent peace, may, we 
sanguinely believe, be secured. But, unless 
emigration into British Kaffraria and Victoria 
he at once adopted, no policy, troops, or any 
laws whatever will prevent another renewed 
Kaffir inroad on the Colony. 
The maintenance of troops, on the frontier 
for some years yet, is indispensibly necessary ; 
