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had passed through his leg. Observing some of the 
sinews hanging out, with his knife he ignorantly cut 
them off, thus occasioning a large hole to remain, which 
is painful to this day, especially in cold weather. The 
boors having overcome the Hottentots, took all their 
cattle, and many of their children from them, and re- 
turned with the spoil towards the river Zondag, which hav- 
ing risen during the battle they found impassable. The 
Hottentots hearing that they were unable to recross the 
river, repeatedly attacked them in the afternoon, and the 
boors were defeated, and obliged to restore the children, 
cattle and guns v/hich they had carried off. They also 
made the Hottentots a present of powder and balls, and 
promised to make no more commandoes against them. 
In consequence of these concessions the Hottentots en- 
gaged not to molest them in recrossing the ri ver ; emd 
thus both parties quietly separated. 
The treaty, however, was only kept by the boors for 
about a month, at which time they came against them 
in greater numbers than before, and attacked the 
kraal under the covert of night ; when two Hottentot 
men and the same number of women were slain ; but 
the commandant of the boors being also killed, who was 
an intrepid man, his followers retired, and returned 
no more. During the first attack the commandant's 
son was killed, and was buried in the vicinity of the 
river. 
Shortly after these things had taken place, the Mis- 
sionary Institution at Bethelsdorp commenced, and 
Mankai's people hearing of it, joined the settlement, and 
so far as regarded the Hottentots in general, peace was 
restored to that part of the colony. 
In the last rencounter between the boors and Hottau- 
tots, a cousin of Mankai's had the end of his little finger 
shot away, but this slight wound was followed by his 
death the same day ; perhaps, said the narrator, it was 
owing to the fright, and not to the loss of his finger, 
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