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lander's howfe, and were dancing, in a ftate of intoxication, 
upon the green. The prifoners, however, were given up, not- 
withftanding the murder of the meflenger j for they difdained, 
as they told them, to take away the lives of the innocent ; but 
that they fhould foon find an opportunity of avenging the death 
of their countryman upon their hufbands, together with the 
many injuries and oppreffions under which they had fo long, 
been labouring.. 
It IS painful to dwell on fubjeds that difgrace human nature, 
but as the atrocities of the African colonifts have hitherto 
efcaped the punifhment of the law, all that can be done is to 
expofe them to the horror and deteftation of mankind. The 
following 2lQ. ftated officially to government by Mr. Vander 
Kemp, a miffionary in Graaf Reynet, is enough to make one 
fhudder at the name of a Cape boor. This zealous and intelli- 
hgent man, on finding the Kalfers were not difpofed to profit 
by his inftrudions, eftablifiiked hirafelf under the fandlion of go- 
vernment near the Sunday River, in order to try his fuccefs 
with the more tradable Hottentots. His little village foon be- 
came an afylum for the poor fugitives, who, after their fkir- 
mifhes with the boors, had concealed themfelves among the 
rocks and thickets. They now fled to Mr. Vander Kemp as to 
a place of fecurity, and to one on whom, being, as they con- 
fidered him to be, in the fervice of the Britifn government, 
they could place unbounded confidence. Among others, one 
poor fellow with his wife and child, in his way to the afylum, 
called at a boor's houfe in Lange Kloof of the name of Van 
Roy^ 
