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emigrant KafFers. The laft remaining party, with their chief 
at their head, had concealed themfelves among the thick cover 
of the Rietberg, where they had been furprifed by a party of 
ftraggling KafFers who had put the greateft part of the horde to 
death, and carried off the whole of their cattle. It was the re- 
maining few who were left in this helplefs and deplorable ftate, 
that came to entreat we fhould lay before the Kaffer king their 
melancholy condition, requefting they might be reftored to his 
protedion. Unluckily for them they had made their applica- 
tion too late ; and all that Could now be done was to furnifh 
them with documents to that king, with a verbal melTage 
favorable to their wifhes. 
The chief Kaabas and the gay Narina, who have furnifhed 
fo long and fo eccentric an epifode in the page of a French 
gentleman's travels among thefe people, were no longer recol- 
heded by them. The names even were totally unknown in 
their language. 
Notwithftanding the friendly difpofition of the Kaffer king 
towards the emigrant chiefs, we underftood at this place they 
had pofitively refufed to pafs the Fifh-river, withheld, no 
doubt, by the gang of outlaws before mentioned, on the banks 
of the Karooka. To drive them over at that time with an 
armed force, to be fent from the Cape exprefsly for that pur- 
pofe, was deemed an unadvifable meafure ; but frefli difturb- 
ances among the foolifh people of Graaff Reynet having fince 
rendered it indifpenfibly neceffary to throw troops into that 
diftria, 
