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tacks of the white people, they were daily 
expofed to others from the Tambouchis, a 
neighbouring nation, who, taking advantage 
of their critical fituatlon, over-ran feveral of 
the cantons of CafFraria, and put every thing 
to the fword that they met with; fo that,op- 
preffed on both fides by this diverfion, the 
Caffres, deftitute of warlike ftores and unable 
to defend themfelves, retreated as faft as pof- 
fible, and penetrated farther northwards, to 
avoid two enemies whom they could not op- 
pofe; while the Boflimen, a third, no lefs for- 
midable, plundered and mafl'acred them 
wherever they could find them. 
From the information given me by thefc 
people, I was aflionifhed that they had ftrag- 
gled fo far from their horde; and that they 
wandered as chance directed, without know- 
ing whither to dired their courfe. They 
however told me, that on the firft mcurfion 
made by the whites, they had fuddenly driven 
their flocks, all in confufion, either towards 
the fea coaft, or to other remote parts of Caf- 
fraria; but that hearing no accounts of any 
new hoftilities, they had ventured to quit 
their hordes, and to go in queft of their dif- 
perfed cattle, in order to bring them back 
again* 
