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" every requifite for becoming a moft convenient and charming 
" fettlementy Such a defcription was fufficlent to fend a Dutch 
farmer as far as the Tambookies, if he couid only be perfuaded 
there would be no perfonal danger. Such are the views of 
thofe people, who have neither fenfe of honor, regard for truth, 
or feelings of juftice or humanity to diredt their proceedings. 
The chiefs were told, that if fome few of the colonifts had 
been fo imprudent as to tranfgrefs the treaty, they had done it 
contrary to the exprefs orders, and without the knowledge, of 
government : that the colony was now in the polTeffion of a 
great and powerful fovereign, the king of England : that one 
of his firft chiefs had deputed us to fay, that the eftablifhed 
boundary fhould be obferved on the part of the colonifts ; but 
he expeded alfo that all thofe chiefs, who had fpread them- 
felves over the country of the colonifts, with their families, and 
dependants, and cattle, would, without any further delay, 
quietly and peaceably return into their own country ; and, as 
a proof of the good intentions and friendftiip of the Englifti 
government towards the Kaffer nation, we were now on our 
journey to their great chief, or king Gaika^ carrying for him a 
prefent from the Englifti governor at the Cape. 
On hearing this, the KafFer chiefs were apparently uneafy ; 
and it was foon difcovered that they not only were on bad 
terms with the king, but that they had been obliged to fly their 
country in order to avoid the effedts of his difpleafure. They 
now began to change their former tone, and to entreat that an 
intereeflion fliould be made for them with their king, and gave 
a promife, 
