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" Article 5th. It is not, perhaps, advisable for the boors, 
" m the Jirst instance^ to take away the cattle of the Kaffers ; 
" because, by doing this, the enemy will always be tempted 
" to hover round the Commando in order to watch a favor- 
" able opportunity to retake them ; besides, to guard a con- 
" siderable number of cattle, by requiring many men, 
" weakens the Commando ; they ought therefore to confine 
" their operations to the pursuit of the enemy, and to expel 
" them the country, by which the whole of their cattle will, of 
*' course, fall into the hands of the boors." 
This curious production concludes by observing that, 
" although all the above points have been repeatedly urged 
" to the Commandants, it will avail nothing unless they be 
" enforced by the government." He might have added, 
that, removed as they were out of the reach and inspection 
of government, no recommendation nor orders would be at- 
tended to by men who were so completely under the do- 
minion of their brutal passions. I should not have ventured 
to give the fourth article of these extraordinary instructions 
as authentic, had it not appeared before me as an official 
document. The British government was much too mild and 
moderate for a set of men of so odious a character as their 
own countryman has here described them, in the articles of 
his instructions. Such men will never become civilized until 
they are " ruled with a rod of iron." The most lenient 
measures, replete with every indulgence, have been tried 
without success. Not one sentiment of gratitude ever escaj^ed 
them for a full pardon of all their offences, and the remission 
of a large debt ; on the contrary, rebellion raised its head in 
