REVENGE OK DXNGAAlSr MEDITATED. 333 
The one was found pierced with nineteen, and 
the other twenty-one stabs of the "assegai" leav- 
ing every part of their little frames completely 
perforated, and every muscle or fibre lacerated. 
The one was named J ohanna van der Merwe, 
and the other Catharina Margaretha Prinslo. 
They were taken up and tended with the utmost 
care, and, strange to say, live to this day, the 
sole survivors of the immediate branches of 
those families. They are, however, perfect crip- 
ples, although one of them has, which is still 
more remarkable, married, and is the mother 
of one or two children ; but with these solitary 
exceptions, all these small parties which had 
not been able to combine and concentrate them- 
selves in "laagers" were utterly destroyed, 
and, in one week after the murder of Eetief 
and his party, six hundred more victims were 
thus immolated by the fury and treachery of 
Dingaan and his army. 
"The survivors in this fearful catastrophe, 
after recovering from the panic in which they 
had been thrown, resolved to avenge themselves 
for this dreadful loss. 
"The whole clan of Uys, which from some 
little feeling of jealousy of Eetief, had lagged 
behind on the Draaksberg, and had thus escaped 
this onslaught, on hearing of this destruction, 
came down into the Klip river, with many other 
