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HISTORY OF AFRICANER. 
caner. Africaner, to be revenged on the Namacquaas for 
aiding the friends of Hans against him, fell upon their Kraal. 
These finding themselves too weak to resist him, implored 
assistance from the Namacquaas at Warm Bath ; who, com- 
plying with their request, sent out a large armed party to 
defend them ; which so enraged Africaner, that he threatened 
destruction to the settlement at Warm Bath. He accom- 
plished his threat in part, for he came against them, and 
carried off a great number of their cattle. A numerous party 
of the Namacquaas pursued him to his Kraal, where they 
carried on a kind of war, shooting at each other from behind 
bushes, none of them possessing sufficient courage to meet in 
the open field. However, the Namacquaas at length devised 
a prudent scheme for regaining their cattle, by taking pos- 
session of their watering place. In spite of Africaner's 
people, the cattle, when thirsty, made their way to the water, 
and were carried off in triumph by the Namacquaas. 
Africaner, renewing his threatenings against the Namac- 
quaas at Warm Bath, so intimidated them, that they, with 
the Missionaries, removed over the Great River, to the 
place where they now are, in Little, or South Namacqua 
land. 
By incursions into the colony, and robbing the boors, not 
only of cattle, but of their muskets and powder, Africaner 
has become very powerful. He has been joined by a 
runaway boor, by some Bushmen, and persons from other 
tribes; and should he proceed without receiving some check, 
his family may soon become a very formidable enemy to the 
colony. 
