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vernment. Unwilling to act, or undecided which part to 
take, they became a common enemy ; and those who re- 
mained in the country were plundered and massacred by both 
parties ; whilst those who fled across the Great-Fish river met 
with the same treatment from the Dutch farmers of Bruyntjes 
Hoogte. Some sought refuge in the plains of Zuure Veldt, 
and were there plundered by the emigrant Kafters. The last 
remaining party, with their chief at their head, had concealed 
themselves among the thick cover of the Rietberg, where 
they had been surprised by some straggling Kaffers who had 
put the greatest part of the horde to death, and carried off the 
whole of their cattle. It was the remaining few who were 
left in this helpless and deplorable state, who came to entreat 
us to lay before the Kaffer king their melancholy condition, 
requesting they might be restored to his protection. Un- 
luckily for them they made their application too late ; and 
all that could now be done was to furnish them with such 
documents to that king as we could give them, with a 
verbal message favorable to their wishes. 
The chief Haabas and the gay Narina, who have furnished 
so long and so eccentric an episode in the pages of a French 
gentleman's travels among these people, were no longer recol- 
lected by them. The names even were totally unknown in 
their language. 
Notwithstanding the friendly disposition of the KafFer king 
towards the emigrant chiefs, we understood at this place they 
had positively refused to return beyond the Fish river, with- 
held, no doubt, by the gang of outlaws before mentioned, on 
