SOUTHERN AFRICA. 123 
In a conversation with these chiefs, they were asked 
whether tliej Avere not acquainted with the treaty that 
had been made a long time ago between the Cliristians 
and Kaffers, and renewed at tlie conclusion of the late 
hostilities, which treaty had fixed the Great Fish rivei 
as the line of demarcation between the two nations ? Mal- 
loo, who spoke for the rest, replied, that they knew it 
very well. If so, it was demanded why they had infringed 
that treaty by passing the said river and taking posses- 
sion of the country belonging to the colonists, to the great 
injury of the latter, who had been obliged to quit their 
habitations ? Malloo replied in a manner that shewed he 
was prepared to answer — that there were no habitations 
in that part of the country where they had fixed themselves ; 
and as to their motive for passing the boundary, he could 
only say, for his own part, that he had come over for one of 
the reasons that had carried the colonists first after the treaty 
into the Kaffer country, which was that of hunting for 
game. 
What this chief stated in his reply was perfectly correct. 
The Dutch peasantry have not only gone into the Kaffer 
country since the year 1793, to hunt for the larger sort 
of game, particularly the hippopotamus, which abounds in 
all the great rivers of that country, but all those who 
dwell near the extremity of the colony, near the Great 
Fish river, have always used, and still continue to consider, 
the Kaffer side of the river as their own, liave sown, and 
planted, and driven over their cattle to graze. Some of the 
inhabitants of Brinjntjes Iloogtc had even gone amongst the 
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