KAFFIR INROADS. 
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be placed in the charge of ordinance officers, ap- 
pointed specially for that purpose, who alone 
should be allowed to dispose of it : and that 
only by Government permit, and with strict, 
and searching personal and individual enqui- 
ries, relative to those to whom they give it. 
A few strict, energetic, and decisive measures 
of this nature, adopted speedily, to confirm the 
present revived policy on the frontier of the 
Cape, would, it is most sanguinely and justly 
believed, place South Africa beyond the power 
of the savage ; and, opening up her internal and 
extensive resources, would expand and develop 
her true and full capabilities, for becoming one 
of the richest, if not the richest \ of all territories 
of our British Colonial Empire. 
A MALAY FAMILY. 
