No. IV. 
LIFE OF MANKAI, A GONAQUA. 
MANKAI, [or, Accused of Poisoning,] was born in 
a Gonaqua kraal, or village, on the Bushman River, now 
called Albany, but formerly the Gonaqua country, where 
most of the English emigrants have settled. Umtoro, 
son of Gooreecee, [or. Aloe,] was then the captain or 
chief of the kraal. In the days of his youth there were 
many kraals of his countrymen, all of whom are now 
dispersed among the Caffres and Hottentots, with which 
nations they have intermarried. 
A short time after the death of his father, their kraal 
was attacked by the Caffres, in consequence of which 
his mother fled with him to a boor in the colony, with 
whom he lived until manhood. Many years ago, during 
an insurrection by the boors around Graaf Reynet, a 
report was circulated that all the Hottentots were to be 
massacred. On hearing this he escaped to a kraal of 
Hottentots, lower down the Zondag River, who were 
connected with the Caffres. 
One night, while the Hottentots of the kraal were danc- 
ing, a commando of boors came upon them, to be re- 
venged for the depredations they had committed on their 
property, when five of the kraal were killed, and five 
wounded, of which last number he was one. A ball 
