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drick Potgeiter, crossed the Orange river, and 
bidding farewell for ever to the Cape Colony, 
they "treeked" or travelled, to Thaba 'JNchu, 
where the Baralong chief Moroka gave them a 
most friendly reception, and where they also 
obtained every facility for grazing their cattle. 
These were soon followed by a more nume- 
rous and wealthy party from Graaf Eeinet, 
headed by Gert Maritz, and these were again 
succeeded by other large parties from the Uiten- 
hage and Albany districts, headed by the aged 
Jacobus Nys, together with Carl Landman, Gert 
Eudolph, and others. Their numbers thus fast 
increasing in the Baralong territory, soon gave 
rise to divisions amongst themselves, and the 
older emigrants, making way for the latter ar- 
rivals, advanced gradually along the banks of 
the Yaal river, (or Ky Gariep) in a Northerly 
direction, until they came into contact with the 
numerous and powerful tribe of the Matabilii, 
under Mazulekatze. 
It is supposed, that this sanguinary chieftain 
having been frequently attacked by the Zulu 
and Griqua forces in that direction, was always 
particularly jealous of any approach from that 
quarter; whilst the farmers unaware, of course, 
of this, gradually kept moving onwards, quite 
unsuspicious of danger. Suddenly their ad- 
vanced posts were attacked, and twenty-eight 
