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upper part of the river. It was not long before he made his 
appearance, followed by a third chief of the name of Etonie, 
In a converfation with thefe chiefs, they were afked whether 
they were not acquainted with the treaty that had been made 
a long time ago between the Chriftians and KafFers, and 
renewed at the conclufion of the late hoftilities, which treaty 
had fixed the Great Fifh river as the line of demarcation 
between the two nations ? Malloo, who fpoke for the reft, 
replied, that they knew it very well. If fo, it was demanded 
why had they infringed that treaty by pafling the faid river and 
taking polTeirion of the country belonging to the colonifts, to 
the great injury of the latter, who had been obliged to quit 
their habitations? Malloo replied in a manner that (hewed he 
was prepared to anfwer — that there were no habitations in that 
part of the country where they had fixed themfelves ; and as 
to their motive for pafling the boundary, he could only fay, for 
his own part, that he had come over for one of the reafons that 
had carried the colonifts Jirji after the treaty into the Kaffer 
country, which was that of hunting for game. 
What this chief ftated in his reply was perfedly corre(3:. 
The Dutch peafantry have not only gone into the Kaffer coun- 
try fince the year 1793, to hunt for the larger fort of game, 
particularly the hippopotamus, that abounds in all the great 
rivers of that country, but all thofe who dwell near the extre- 
mity of the colony, upon the Great Fifh river, have always 
ufed, and ftill continue to confider, the Kaffer fide of the river 
as their own, have fown, and planted, and driven over their 
cattle 
