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picions; they refused, therefore, to go any more on such 
expeditions. Information having come to Piemaar, that the 
Bushmen had carried off some cattle from a boor belonging 
to the district over which he was Field Cornet, he, in his 
official character^ commanded them to pursue the Bushmen, 
in order to recapture the cattle. This order they positively 
refused to obey, alledging that his only motive for sending 
them on such an expedition was, that they might be 
murdered, and he might thereby get possession of their 
wives. 
For resisting his order, Piemaar proceeded to flog Jager - 
who seized his gun, which was loaded with small shot, the 
contents of which he lodged in his master's body. A scuffle 
ensued, in which the sons of Africaner shot, not only 
Piemaar himself dead, but also his wife and child. Some 
say that this atrocious deed was contrary to the wishes and 
expostulations of the father ; but others assert he was ac- 
cessary to it. All however fled immediately over the Great 
river, to North Namacqualand. Having settled themselves 
in that country for some time, the sons of Africaner, having 
muskets and powder, which they had carried off from their 
murdered master, resolved upon an expedition against some 
part of the colony, to attack some boor's place by surprise. 
In this expedition they murdered a boor of the name of 
Engelbrecht, and likewise a bastard Hottentot, from whom 
they carried off much cattle. 
Immediately on the Missionaries arriving at Warm Bath, 
in North, or Great Namacqua country, Africaner, with his 
family, came and took up his residence near them^ and for 
some time behaved in an orderly and peaceable manner ; 
but a circumstance occurred which led to the ruin of the 
settlement there. 
Jager and Titus, as they dared not to visit Cape-town 
themselves, after the murders they had perpetrated, em- 
ployed a Hottentot, named Hans Driver, to take three 
span, or sets, of oxen thither; with two span of these he 
was desired to purchase a waggon for them, and with the 
third to bring the waggon home. On the way to Cape-town, 
Hans met a boor to whom he was in debt, for which the 
boor seized the whole of the oxen ; upon which Hans returned 
to Namacqua, and refused to give any account of the oxen. 
This conduct of Hans so exasperated the sons of Africaner, that 
they attacked his Kraal, and murdered him. Not long after 
this occurrence, the friends of Hans, with the assistance of 
some Namacquaas, in their turn attacked the Kraal of Afri- 
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