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STATEMENT OF SILAYI, WITH EEFERENCE TO HIS LIFE 
AMONG THE BUSHMEN. 
By W. E. Stanfoed. 
(Read July 21, 1909.) 
Statement of Silayi, a Tembu of the Jumba tribe, under the 
chief Umgudhlwa, taken at Engcobo, Tembuland, on the 7th of 
May, 1884:— 
About the time of the war of Umlanjeni (1850) I went to the Tsitsa 
Eiver to live. The chief of our tribe was then Jumba, the present chief 
Umgudhlwa's father. We had previously been living on the White Kei 
River (Xonxa). In that part of the country there were still Bushmen 
families and clans and they were on comparatively friendly terms with 
our people as well as other Tembu tribes. I became acquainted with 
them through Hans, a Hottentot, and Ngqika, who was a nephew of 
Hans on the mother's side, his father being a Bushman of Modolo's 
tribe named Qako. It was with Ngqika and a son of Hans that I first 
visited Ngqabayi, the chief of a Bushman clan whose haunts were in the 
Drakensberg Mountains, about the sources of the Xuka and Qanqaru 
Rivers. We started off on a stock-stealing expedition from home. 
Ngqika advised that we should go to Ngqabayi, and join with some of the 
Bushmen in order to ensure success. We found the Bushmen in the 
Umgqazo Mountains. The clan I found could muster forty-three men. 
Ngqabayi was then getting old, but still active and strong. He did not 
take part any longer in the marauding. The men were armed chiefly 
with bows and arrows. They also had spears, and three had guns — Ciyo, 
Nkwinti, and Tyazo. The guns were flint-locks. The arrows were 
poisoned. 
Ngqika told Ngqabayi what we had come about, and he gave us five 
young men to go with us to steal stock among the Dutch. We travelled 
along the Drakensberg Mountains until we came to the sources of the 
