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tion was sufficient to send a Dutch farmer as far as the 
Tambookies, if he could only be persuaded there would 
be no personal danger. Such are the views of those people, 
who have neither sense of honor, regard for truth, or feelings 
of justice or hunianitj^ to direct their proceedings. 
The chiefs were told, that if some few of the colonists had 
been so imprudent as to transgress the treat}^, they had done 
it contrary to the express orders, and without the knowledge, 
of government : that the colony was now in the possession of 
a great and powerful sovereign, the king of England : that 
one of his first chiefs had deputed us to say, that the esta- 
blished boundary should be observed on the part of the 
colonists ; but he expected also that all those chiefs, who 
had spread themselves over the country of the colonists, 
with their families, and dependants, and cattle, would, 
without any further delay, quietly and peaceably return 
into their own country ; and, as a proof of the good intentions 
and friendship of the English government towards the 
Kafter nation, we were now on our journey to their great 
chief, or king Gaika, carrying for him a present from the 
English governor at the Cape. 
On hearing this, the Kaffer chiefs were apparently uneasy; 
and it was soon discovered that they not only were on bad 
terms with the king, but that they had been obliged to fly 
their country in order to avoid the effects of his displeasure. 
They now began to change their former tone, and to entreaj; 
that an intercession should be made for them with their king, 
and gave a promise, on condition of a messenger of peace 
