C H A P . II.
Military Expedition to the KafFer Frontier.
Qcceffion o f this Expedition.— Affairs o f Graaf Reynet.— Gordon’s Bay.— Hottentot
H ollan d Kloof-r Obfiriacy of the Colonjls.— Cruelty to ~Animals^ had Effefts o f—
Palmiei and Bott Rivers.— temperature o f the A ir .— The Shoemaker’s Hovel.—-
Rapid Vegetation after Rain— Plants f i f j l appearing.— Sweet Milk’s Valley— wild
Ariiinals there.— Eftablifbment o f Herrihuters or Moravians— good Effefts of.— -
Hottentots difcouraged by the Colonifts— Sir James Craig’s Teftimony of— other
Mifftonaries.— Inftatice o f Zeal in M r . Kicherir— Refieftion thereupon.— Injlance
o f favage Cruelty in the Boors— a Hoor taken into Cu/lody.— Two o f our Dragoons
jh a River.— Scarcity o f Water attempted to he explained from the Nature and
Antiquity o f the Mountains— Fa fts adduced in Proof o f the Theory.— Cape Iflhmus
never covered with the Sea-? Reafons fo r Juch Conjefture.-L’Aguillas Bank once
f art of the Continent.— Antiquity o f Africa.— Mufcle Bay— Chart and Defcrip-
tion o f— Crofs Attaquas Kloo f into Lange Kloo f.— Wine— Rai/ins— Brandy—
all o f bad Quality.— Experiment fo r making good Wine.— Appearance o f Lange
Kfoof— crofs the Mountains to Plettenberg’s Bay— Reafon why Forefl Trees are more
abundant there than elfewhere.— M r . Colander’s Account o f the Knyfna— and
fu r rounding Country.— Condition o f a Cape Boar.— Anchor found on Table Mountain.—
Plants near Plettenberg’s Bay— and Animals.— Injlance o f Ingenuity in a
deaf and dumb Man.— Appearance o f the Country between. Canitoos River and
Algoa Bay.— Engagement between L a Preneufe and the Rattlefnake.— Change o f
Circumfances favourable to the Boors— rebellious Boors fent to the Cape— tried by
the Court o f Jufice there— Conjlitution o f this Court— bad Character o f undeferved.
Boors plundered by the Hottentots— Juflification o f thefe People— their cruel Treatment
by the Boors— Examples o f in a Hottentot Woman and Child cut with Shambocs
— in a Boy with Iron Rings clenched on his Legs— Puni/hment ofihe Boor.— Another
Injlance o f the fanguinary Character o f the Boors— its Caufe explained.— People
o f Cape Town.— The Burgher and the Whale.—-Character and' Mode of Life
— tenacious o f Rank.— Hottentot Corps— Char after of .— Condition o f the Slaves.—
Imprudence of the Whites.— Adminijlration o f Jujtice, between the Whites qtid
Blacks.— Rencontre with the Kaffer Chief Cango.— Compàrifoh between the Per-
fons o f Boors and Kajfer s.— Refleftion. — Food o f the Kaffers.— Boojhuanas.— City
o f Leetakoo.— Conjefture of the Kajfer Origin— Extent o f their. Country— their
Dogs not fubjeft to Canine Madnefs.— Small Pox not endemic in South Africa—
Origin of.— High Situations favourable to the Growth of Animals .-Uncommon
JnJlance o f Bulk in a Woman— Fate o f this haplefs Creature.— Attack of the
Kaffers upon the Britijh Troops— à wounded Kaffer taken.— Rencontre1o f Boors
and Hottentots at Algoa Bay.— KaffersJlorm the Britijh Camp.— Melancholy Fate
o f Lieutenant Chumney and fixleen Men.— I ll judged Con du f t o f the Boors— Con-
fequences.— Hatred of Kaffers and Hottentots againjl the Boors— Condu ft o f the
latter at Plettenberg’s Bay.— Horrid Murder committed in Lange Klooff.— Curious
Articles of lnjlruftions propofed fo r the Boors in their Wars with the Kaffer s.—
Return to the Cape.— Change of Condu f t in the Colonifs— reconciled to the Britijh
Government— indifferent as to the Return of their own— little Rejoicing jhewn at
h this Event—Reafons o f it—final Evacuation.
JTROM the moment that the departure of the Earl of
t > Macartney for England was made known in the diftant
parts of the colony, the ignorant and mifguided boors, excited
by that party of mifchievous, and not lefs ignorant, perfons in
Cape Town, who had long fhewn themfelves averfe to all government,
feemed to think that with his Lordfliip had departed
all authority and the means of bringing them to legal puniih-
roent. Their.reftlefs and turbulent minds, and, above all, their
avaricious and iniquitous views upon the harmlefs Kaffers, could
no. longer brook reftraint ; and they determined* at a fele£l
meeting, as one of them obferved in a letter to his friend at
the Cape, “ Now that the old Lord was gone away, to prove
“ themfelves true patriots.”
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