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a wide extent of country, have, during the last 
three centuries, more or less diverged from their 
original character. 
"The frontier Kaffirs have become a mate- 
rially different people, owing to their proximity 
to the Cape Colony. Those tribes, also, to the 
Northward, and under Chaka and Sotyangan, 
by whom wars of a more extensive and deci- 
ded character have been prosecuted, than were 
known prior to their reign, have also experi- 
enced a considerable alteration. 
" Leaving these tribes to the North, and the 
frontier tribes to the South, we find a somewhat 
central tribe in the Amapondo, under Faku, 
which has been less affected by the violent com- 
motions in the above directions than most of 
the others. 
"This chief was not originally greater, nor 
had he a force superior to many of his neigh- 
bours, until the remnants of tribes despoiled 
and scattered by Chaka, sought refuge with 
him. Other tribes also, dreading the great 
Zulu chief, although unmolested by him, at- 
tached themselves to Faku. 
"The country occupied by the Amapondo 
nation, is particularly well adapted for defence ; 
hence, in two attacks made upon it by the Zulu 
army, although Faku lost many thousand of 
cattle, he held his territory. 
