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ges appeared to me perfedlly excufable. Perfe-* 
cuted by the neighbouring plantersj who, hav- 
ing fire-arms, made an ill ufe of them againft 
the natives ; wretched, and plundered belides 5 
how could they avoid being irritated by fuch 
multiplied infults and adis of injuftice ? In 
their rage they laid the blame upon their chief, 
who was innocent 5 quarrelled among them- 
felves I and became fo many madmen to- 
wards each other. 
The people of the horde did not merely 
complain of their cdttle having been killed or 
ftolen ; they had been robbed alfo of part of 
their territory by force. The vaft domain oc- 
cupied by Van der "Wefthuyfen and his family^ 
as well as that on which his brother- in-lavv 
Engelbrecht had fettled, were ufurped property 
from which thefe planters had driven away 
the horde ; and, not yet fatisfied, they were 
dally endeavouring to feize on what remained,- 
particularly the Fountain of Lilies, near which 
was their kraal. 
With this view, they haraffed and tor-^ 
mented them inceflantly: hoping that, by 
dint of perfecution, they fhould weary them 
outj and fo compel them to remove and fet- 
tle 
