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to have once been in his service, and recollecting he was now 
standing before them m the shape of an enem}^ and defence- 
less, fired at once with rage and revenge, snatched up his 
musquet in his hand, and shot him dead upon the spot. In- 
telligence of this atrocious act was speedily conveyed, by the 
companion of the deceased, to the Kaffers and Hottentots ; 
and it was reported, and believed, that they had in conse- 
quence put all the women and children to death. And un- 
der this impression, as I have just observed, the husbands 
and fathers of these women and children broke open Mr. 
Callendcr's house, and were dancing, in a state of intoxica- 
tion, upon the green. The prisoners, however, were given 
up, notwithstanding the murder of the messenger ; for they 
disdained, as they told them, to take away the lives of the 
innocent ; but that they should soon find an opportunity of 
avenging the death of their countryman upon their husbands^ 
together with the many injuries and oppressions under which 
they had so long been laboring. 
It is painful to dwell on subjects that disgrace human na- 
ture, but as the atrocities of the African colonists have 
hitherto escaped the punishment of the law, all that can be 
done is to expose them to the horror and detestation of man- 
kind. The following act stated officially to government by 
Mr. Vander Kemp, a missionary in Graaf Reynet, is enough 
to make one shudder at the name of a Cape boor. This 
zealous and intelligent man, on finding the KafFers were not 
disposed to profit by his instructions, established himself 
under tlie sanction of government near the Sunday River, 
in order to try his success with the more tractable Hottentots, 
