SOUTHERN AFRICA. 
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" Baas (the Great Mafter) given plenty of grafs-roots, and ber- 
" ries, and grafhoppers for our ufe ; and, till the Dutch de- 
" droved them, abundance of wild animals to hunt ? And will 
" they not return and multiply when thefe deftroyers are 
" gone ?" We prevailed, however, upon Klaas to deliver up 
th^ir arms, and, in the mean time, to follow the troops until 
fome arrangement could be made for their future welfare. 
Proceeding on our march, along the banks of the Sunday 
River, and among the vaft thickets that almofl: entirely covered 
this part of the country, we fell in with a prodigious number of 
Kaffers with their cattle, belonging, as they told us, to a pow- 
erful chief named Cotigo. This man was at the head of all the 
other emigrant chiefs who had fied from the Kaffer country, 
eaflward of the Great Fifh River, on account of fome enmity 
fubfiffing between them and their King Ga'ika^ with whom I 
had, in vain, attempted, in company of the Landroft, to bring 
about a reconciliation two years before. As the pofition he now 
occupied not only encroached very much upon the territorial 
rights of the colony, but was alfo far within the line a£lually in- 
habited by the Dutch boors, we deemed it expedient to endeavour 
to prevail upon him to move towards the eaftward j and for this 
purpofe, we fent a meflenger to requeft that he would give us 
the meeting. The anfwer brought back fignified, that he did 
not care to come alone, and that he defired to know, if we had 
any objections to receive him at the head of a certain number of 
his people. The meflenger being told he might bring with him 
any number of his attendants not exceeding thirty, he fhortly 
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