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entertainments in the Asiatic style of mag- 
nificence. These people, although fre- 
quently insolent to the governor, were, 
however, easily managed, as their proper- 
ties were contiguous to the Cape, and of 
course within the grasp of authority. Those 
who were further advanced having smarted 
under restrictions and goaded by persecu- 
tions, were less tractable, and frequently 
made a common cause with those colonists, 
who being still farther advanced from the 
seat of government, paid but little atten- 
tion to the mandates of authority. To 
such lengths did they proceed in their 
opposition to the orders of the governor, 
that on a certain occasion, when he threat- 
ened them with military execution as a 
punishment for their disobedience, they 
sent him word, that every soldier he de- 
spatched on such a business would be sent 
back to him in picUing-tuhs ; at the same 
time giving him to understand they could 
bring 10,000 men into the field. 
The governor, perceiving their strength 
and disposition, proceeded no farther than 
menaces 5 but this transaction confirmed 
