SOUTHERN AFRICA. 381 
As this chapter is meant to exemplify the character of the 
Dutch boors of the Cape settlement, I shall extract another 
instance of their savage brutality, recorded in a pamphlet, 
written by the above-mentioned gentleman, which, if possible, 
equals, if not exceeds, in its atrocity, any thing of the kind 
which history has handed down. " Des que les Anglois 
" avoient quittes le fort, un colon nomm6e Eerreira, de fa- 
" mille Portugaise, s en rendit le maitre, et en prit possession 
" pour lors, ce qui dmk jusqu'au I'arrivce du detachement 
" que le Gouvernement y a envoye sous les ordres du Major 
" Von Gilten, et qui y commande en ce moment. Les 
" Catfres, croiant que la derniere paix avoit finie tout demele 
" entre eux, envoyferent une bete a tuer au nouveau command- 
" ant du fort, comme une marque d'amitie et de reconcilia- 
" tion ; le CafFre le fit conduire par un Hottentot ; et Ferreira 
" par reconnoissance se saisit du Caffre, le brula tout vif ; 
" attacha le pauvre Hottentot a un arbre, hd coupa un mor~ 
" ceau de la chair de sa cuisse, le hd Jit manger tout cruc, et le 
*' relacha ensuite." 
" As soon as the English had abandoned the fort (at Algoa 
" Bay) a boor named Eerreira, of a Portugueze family, made 
" himself master of it, and kept possession till the arrival of a 
*' detachment of troops which Government sent thither, un- 
" der the command of Major Von Gilten, who is still there. 
" The Kaffers, fully persuaded that the late peace had put 
*' an end to all disturbances between them, sent to the new 
" commander of the fort a bullock to be slain, as the test 
" of reconciliation and friendship. The Kaffer sent on the 
*' occasion put himself under the guide of a Hottentot ; and 
