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promised to be delivered ; but the farmers soon 
discovered that these messages and promises 
were mere pretexts to keep up a constant and 
regular espionage upon them, as one of these 
pretended messengers or spies being caught, 
he admitted that he had been sent to report to 
Dingaan whether the farmers were gradually re- 
turning to their farms, or whether they still kept 
near to their "laagers" thus clearly showing 
that he only waited the opportunity to attempt 
another ' 6 razia 5 ' upon them. This naturally pa- 
ralyzed all their agricultural pursuits, and pre- 
vented them from spreading themselves about, 
to carry on their farming pursuits, being thus 
kept constantly on the alert. However, in the 
inscrutable decrees of Providence, one of those 
events was brought about for which they were 
quite unprepared, in which they were not even 
the chief agents, but which led to their undis- 
puted possession of the whole territory of Natal. 
" There were only, at that time, two brothers 
remaining alive of Chaka and Dingaan; the 
elder Panda, or Umpanda, (as he is called by 
his subjects,) and a young lad " Clu Clu."* 
Umpanda had just reachedmanhood, but brought 
* " Clu Clu was murdered by Panda, in the year 1843, on which 
occasion their "Aunt" Maria, with a great number of Chaka' s and 
Dingaan' s followers, fled into this country ; and these are at present 
still settled in this District, chiefly in the Umvopti and Inanda Loca- 
tions." 
