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INTELLIGENCE FROM KLAARWATER. 18 Feb.— 14 Mar. 
ramble, which, according to the road we took, could not have been 
less than twenty-five miles. 
On the IStJi, Mr. Anderson came to tell me that he had just 
received a letter from the settlement at Klaarwater^ in which his 
brother-missionary, residing there, informed him that a party of 
Hottentots from that place would arrive at Cape Town about the 
middle of April, bringing with them the oxen necessary for the per- 
formance of his journey thither ; it being his intention to return and 
resume his labours at that station, from which he had now been ab- 
sent two years. Notice had also been given to him, of a report which 
had reached the Landdrost of Tulbagh, that five hundred emigrant 
Coffres * had passed along the borders of the district of Graaffreynett, 
in their way to the Gariep, or Orange River, on the banks of which 
they had formed a strong and independent settlement, not far from 
Klaarwater. 
Being a warlike set of men, discontented and irritated at the 
treatment they had received from all quarters, and at variance with 
the colonists, he was apprehensive that they would make an attack 
on any party travelling that way, which should not muster strong- 
enough to defend itself against them ; and he therefore came to pro- 
pose, for our mutual safety and defence, as well against these Caffres, 
as against the Buslimen f , that we should travel in company as far as 
Klaarwater, if I could consent to put off my departure from Cape 
Town, till the middle of May. 
This proposal appearing objectionable, on account of the delay 
it required, I hesitated in adopting it : but in ten days afterwards, 
* The word Cqffre, or Kqffer, is generally, at the Cape, applied exclusively to the 
tribes inhabiting the country beyond the eastern boundary of the colony. 
f This is often written Bosjesmaii, and Boschman, which being merely Dutch words 
signifying men living wild among the bushes, and applied generally to several tribes of the 
Hottentot race, I have preferred using the English orthography, viewing it rather as a de- 
scriptive, than as a proper, name. They call themselves Sdqua those, at least, who in- 
habit the country southward of the Gariep. Yet it is difficult to avoid inaccuracy, in the 
application of one collective name to a race of people who divide themselves into many 
separate tribes. 
