TRAVELS IN 
diftrid, and the KafFers having been inftigated by promlfes and 
prefents from the boors to enter into hoftilities againft the Bri- 
tifh troops, coercive meafures were found to be unavoidable in 
order to drive thefe people out of the colony, and break the con- 
nedion that fubfifted between them and the peafantry. The 
country is here fo clofe and unfavourable for regular troops to 
aft, that a fmall party, with an officer at their head, were cut 
off by furprife. Once a numerous body of Kaffers made an 
attack, in the day-time, upon the camp in Zuure Veldt, where 
they knew the ammunition to have been lodged. For the fpace 
of an hour and half they flood the fire of mufquetry and two 
three-pound field-pieces, and endeavoured feveral times to 
ftorm with fingle haffagais in their hands, the wooden fhafts 
being broken fhort off by the fockets. Several Dutch boors 
were among the party, firing mufquetry from behind the 
buflies. Being repulfed at length with great lofs, the boors 
thought it beft to throw themfelves on mercy ; the Kaffers dif- 
appeared ; and the vagabond Buys, the chief of the outlaws and 
promoter of all the difturbances, fled into Kaffer-land, far beyond 
the dominions of Gaika. 
In our way to the Drofdy we paffed over the fertile divifion 
of Bruyntjes Hoogte', notorious for the turbulent fpirit of its 
inhabitants, a fet of adventurers, chiefly foldiers or failors de- 
ferted or difcharged from the Dutch army and the Company's 
fiiipping, who, having at this great difl:ance from the feat of 
government found a country that with little or no labor would 
fupply mod of their wants, thought themfelves independent of 
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