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are governed entirely by their own laws and 
customs the chief is the centre of their thoughts 
and actions ; with him rests their prospects, and 
even their lives ; but, from the period when the 
young men of a tribe begin to enter into the 
service of colonists, those ties, which heretofore 
bound them to their chief, are weakened. For- 
merly they were entirely dependent on him, and 
on their parents, for counsel and aid, not only 
in marrying, but also in every emergency. By 
their connection with Europeans they have lost 
much of that respect which they were accus- 
tomed to pay to their chiefs and to their parents, 
and have even learned to contemn the English 
authorities; and thus, in their new position, 
they have become greatly unwilling to submit 
to government of any kind. 
u The state in which I found the natives of 
the Colony, particularly those in the service of 
colonists, or living in their vicinity, was one 
very difficult to control. 
" Those in the division of Pietermaritzburg 
are under better control than those in the 
division of Durban; which difference I attribute 
to the circumstance that there has not yet been 
any competent authority appointed to the latter 
division. 
" Two of the most prominent offences, com- 
mitted by Kaffirs in the service of colonists, are 
