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awaiting the return of their husbands, sons, 
and relatives ; when the Zoolah army, haying 
divided itself into several small detachments, 
fell at break of day, on the foremost parties of 
emigrants near the Blue Krantz river, and close 
to the present township of Weenen, which has 
obtained its name (meaning wailing or weeping) 
from the sad events of that day. Men, women, 
and children, were at once surrounded, and 
barbarously murdered, with horrors, which I 
should be sorry to dwell upon and detail ; other 
detachments of Zoolahs surprised, in other places, 
similar small parties who were likewise scattered 
all over the Klip river division, and who all 
fell under the Zoolah ' 'assegai. ? ' From one or two 
wagons, however, a solitary young man escaped, 
who, hastening to the parties whom he knew 
to be in the rear, at length succeeded in spread- 
ing the alarm among them, so that, as the Zoolahs 
advanced further into the district, two or three 
parties of farmers had been able hastily to col- 
lect a few wagons, and arrange them into a 
" laager" or encampment, where they made 
their preparations to secure their families just 
in time, before they were also attacked, and 
they thus succeeded in repelling the most daring 
attacks made upon them ; not one of these 
"laagers" having been forced or penetrated 
by the Zoolahs. The latter, however, advanced 
