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tentots at Algoa Bay, that it was the intention of the Eng- 
lish to put them on board ship, and to send them to the Cape. 
Such an idea created no small degree of alarm among these 
poor creatures ; and I observed on the following morning, 
tbat a great number had stolen away in the night; and, as 
we afterwards found, had joined the Kaffers. This malicious 
and ill-judged conduct of the boors was the cause of all the 
subsequent misfortunes that befel themselves and their coun- 
trymen, and ultimately brought on their own destruction. 
For it not only defeated our intention of carrying into effect 
such arrangements as were likely to have reconciled the two 
parties to each other; but it was, likewise, the means of 
bringing together an united force of Kaffers and Hottentots, 
whose first step was to drive all the boors out of their society, 
to plunder them of the rest of their cattle, set fire to their 
houses, and put several of them to death. Having cleared 
the whole of the lower part of Graaf Reynet, they advanced 
into the district of Zwellendam. Their whole hatred was 
levelled against the boors. English dragoons, travelling- 
alone with dispatches, have frequently been met by large 
parties of these plunderers, and suffered to pass without 
molestation. Even a house, which they discovered at Plet- 
tenberg's Bay to belong to an English gentleman, they left 
undisturbed, whilst all the rest that fell in their way were 
burnt to the ground. 
The same house, however, was afterwards plundered by a 
party of boors who had been collected by the magistrates of 
Zwellendam to clear the district of the Kaffers and Hotten- 
tots. These unprincipled men, either out of revenge, or frorai 
