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by which he declared, " to resign to Eetief and 
his countrymen, the place called Port Natal, 
together with all the land annexed : that is to 
say — from the Tugela to the Umzimvooboo 
river, and from the sea, to the North, as far as 
the land may be useful and in my possession." 
These are the words of the original docu- 
ment, which was found still perfectly legible, 
and was delivered over by the Volksraad in the 
year 1843, and is now (or ought to be) among 
the archives of the Colonial Office of Natal. 
"After decently interring the remains of their 
unfortunate countrymen, the emigrant farmers 
found that their horses and ammunition were 
ill-calculated to continue a harrassing warfare 
upon Dingaan in his fastnesses, and they, there- 
fore, resolved gradually to fall back, which they 
did with little loss, taking with them some 5000 
head of cattle, which they distributed among 
themselves, as the lawful and hard-earned tro- 
phies of this campaign. 
" On their return from this successful inroad, 
they were not a little surprised to find that Sir 
George Napier (who had succeeded Sir Benja- 
min D'Urban in the government of the Cape 
Colony,) had sent a small detachment of High- 
landers, under the command of Major Charters, 
to take possession of the Bay of Natal. This 
measure had been evidently taken, and in fact 
