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THE KAFIR WAR.

MONTHLY SUMMARY OF PROCEEDINGS ON

THE FRONTIER.
(From the Cape Monitor.)
_Our last summary of intelligence from head-quarters,
nearly to the close of January, was published on the 3d
of February, and forwarded by the mail packet Bospho-
rus on that daY.
A postsaripaof the previous, evening added the very
latest news just received, viz.:—That Butterwnrth Mis-
sion Station had been burnedlo the ground, -and Krell,
the Trans-Keiam chief, had asked for peace (Jan. 27.)
' It appearathat on the evacuation of that station by
the 6,000 or 7,000 Mopes with their families and im-
mense horde, under the escort of Lieut.-Colonel Byre's
division, the enemy reduced it to a heap of ashes.
The object of the Kafir chiefs was , now 'merely to
.gain time to reap their'cropli;and to‘ lay:in fresh stores
of arms and ammunition for the purpose of renewing
operations on a more extended scale. ,They therefore
had recourse again to their abuse of British clemency
and forbearance by • messages and other diplomatic
ruses, at which they are such adepts'. Bokoo and Ma-
ntissa, who have been forgiven and re-adopted, are again
" Smith's children," again they are " thankful for the
Goyernor'iii Word." '""ltrellbegs to be allowed to sit at
the Governor's :feet, 'and he will endeavour to collect the
2;500 bead of cattle demanded for the destruction of
Butterworthaand the injury done th© traders; hut it
wouldhe difficult, as so many of his people's cattle had
been taken." We believe, however, that there are not
less than 81:000 head of cattle at this moment in pos-
session of his tribe. •
The-arrant rogue Unahata,' on being ordered to " eat
up" a number 'of chiefs who had broken the oaths sworn
on the "stick," to deliver the stolen cattle and horses,
and to pay 1,000 head of good cattle, received the Go-
vernor's messenger and his staff of office with great re-
specs. slaughtering an QS on the occasion; then he col-
lects his ainaPakati (councillors), and " thanks his great
Father Smith for his,word ;" he,- however, begs for time
to seek the required -cattle. •'
The VSlamoie chiefs are. informed,, through their
commissioner, that " seven coluinns of troops are in
motion on the Amatolas„" and that they must eat vp all
the war party, and hand over their cattle. The chiefs
are very grateful, and -if they find any stolen cattle
among their people, will deliver them up.
It is to be hoped, hOwever, that the combined move-
ment on the Amatolas will induce these crafty, treacher-
ous diplomatists to art in accordance with the promises,
which we knot,. to be thoroughly specious and hollow.
The combiqed movement upon the Amatolas was com-
menced on the 26th and 27th Jonuary, in seven columns,
under the following officers Major-General Somer-
set, Lieut.-Colonel Pole, -Lieut.-Colonel Eyre, Lieut.-
Colonel Colonel Napier, Lieut.-Colonel
Skipwith, Lieut.-Colonel Nisbet, Major Kyle, Captain
Tylden, and Captain-Catty, comprising a total of about
7,000, Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, 12th Lancers,
2d, 6th, 12th, 43d, 45th, 60th, 73d, 74th, 91st, and Cape
Mounted Rifles, and native Levies; together with Fin-
goes.
W hilst, on the one hand, the enemy received prompt
reinforcements (stated to be 2,000, and 400 Kafirs and
Hottentots), on the other hand, they continually Called
out to the troops " to go away, as they were tired of the
war." Sandilli based his application for peace on the
clemency shown to an Englishman who had fallen into
his handr, and whom he now sent in, asking, "Am I
not Smith's child?" Macomo, the deepest of all these
barbarians, sent in his -favourite wife, with two oth*
women, who reported that Macomo's councillors were
determined to make peace, as they had no powder. " He
made sure of getting peace, as lie had got it every war
when he flaked for it."

Meanwhile some of the troopi were employed in
opening a pass into the Amatola basin. Colonel
Michel's division had reaped and destroyed 200 or 300
acres of Kafir corn, during which operations Lieutenant
Armitage, 6th Regiment, was wounded in the shoulder.
Lieutenant-Colonel Pole's division had killed some of
the enemy, and taken 1,000 head of cattle (since sold
for 1,0001.) and the Kat River Levy, in two engagements,
had killed 20 Ka,firs, 'and captured a few cattle and
horses, althoup.attapleed by a greatly superior force of
the enemy:'
On the 6th Pebruary the Governor issued a procla-
mation (republished below) calling upon all burghers of
seven frontier districts between the ages of 20 and 50 to
assemble on the Bth March, under the commander-in-
ehiet himself, and expel the rebel Gaikas and Hotten-
tots from the, %Vuterkloof Blinkwater, Fuller's Hoek,
Kat River, end the whole of the Amatolas.
Had the organs of disorder and misrule withheld that
villanous teaching which thirteen months ago persuaded
the duped people to disobey the Governor's appeals,
the enemy would' long since have been at our feet
and for ever; but now we scarce dare hope for a
favourable reply to this last call. Murder and rapine
still stalk upon our border, disaff,ction continues, and
the enemy becomes more insolent and daring; the re-
gular troops are fully occupied-in the Amatola range of
mountain featnesses, and the borders are infested by
prowling murderers and thieves. At the Mancazana 10
Kafirs and Hottentots stela from one gentleman 10 sad-
dle horses, and from another about 400 sheep—the ma-
jority of which were gallantly captured when en route
for the mountain retreats:. . A eltraal at Riebeek was
broken into by a party of Hottentots and Kafirs, who
killed 1 horse, and stole 10 others. On the 29th Jamie
. are', between 100 and 200 Hottentots and Kafirs, nearly
all mounted, attacked the eattle-kraal of Dr. J. Ather-
stone, jun., at Table Farm, four miles from Graham's
Town, an got off with-130 head of valnable.cattle; and.
although pursuel beyond 40 miles, the murderons,band
escaped, bavirig shot ono of Dr. Atheestone's servants
dead P.'Berttem, tme of the purstleis, had scarce
returned home witla'.his party, when his own cattle were
.reported to be stolen by Ksfirs; he immediately re-
mounted, and With three farmers and four servants pur-
sued and retook the booty. In Somerset, Field Cornet
Van der Nest's son, a youth of 16, received a ball in
the jaw whilst pursuing a band of robbers. Another
patrol came on the spoor of eight mounted rascals, going
off with sfolen horees towards Macomo'a camp. At
Whittleses the enemy made a sweeping race, but were
_gallantly encountered and beaten, with the loss of their
own'horseS At 'Salem. Mr.. Long's herd was wounded
.by some of tleae.,prelviling savages.
_ _

On-the 6th of February,, a general order was issued,
directing that some Kafirs of the Gwali missionary sta-
tion, who had been fighting the wbole war, and who had
now surrendered, should be disarmed and dismissed, and
that none, excepting chiefs or influential rebels, should
be retained. A Gwali chief, named Dakwani, had
surrendered, and been sent prisoner to King William's
Town:

The troops, meanwhile, eXperienced little, if any, op-
position daring the destruction of: the crops and kraals.
Colonel Michel was proceeding most industriously in the
work throughout the valley of Lenya, whilst Lieutenant-
Colonel Eyre, with his accustomed energy,' desolated
the Keiskamma Hoek, in one part of which (the
Nyurneya) the kraals and gardens were so numerous that
he imagined :they had not been previously, disturbed.
I lire a herd of cattle wns spied in the act of being driven
off, but they wore quickly pursued; and 63 head were
captured by the 'Fingues, with a few Cape Mounted
Rifles and Levies, under Captain Griffith, supported by
Lieutenant Gawler's company of the 73d, and a party of
12th Lancers under Lieutenant Durant, the enemy flying
in every direction. An immense number of kraals were
burned.

These cattle were the personal, property of Sandilli,
flying from (Monet Michele column in the Lenyti
valley,
Under these circumstances, the Kafir chiefs again had
recourse to diplomacy; Sandilli, 13otman,-Xoxo' Sonia,
and Macomo holding a meeting on the 9th February,
with the Gaika Commissioner Brownlee, and begging
for a three days' truce, ostentibly •ifor 'the purposes of
consultation, but in reality to save their corn and con-
coct further stratagenis
The rogues were accompanied by about 200 Bars
and two rebel Hottentots, one of 'whom leaned on his
musket, scowling on- the British commissioner. San-
dilli said it was time there should be peace, but he pre-
ferred making it in the field; he would not go to a mili-
tary post. The 12th, 13th, and 14th of February.were
accordingly given to them, at the 'end of which time
they (but without Macomo) requested a further cessa-
tion of hostilities "until peace is established." Their
delegates, Zama and Dadu, said, that “ when a child is
in error, he is chastened by his father, who afterwards
'receives hint into faranr. Sandilli has erred, and the
other chiefs had clOne wrong io supporting him:, the
Governor has now punishCcl them, and they pray for
peace." This humbug is too transparent. The chiefs
positively refuse to surrender. : .
Operations were accordingly resumed on the 15th.
On the last day of the truce, the 14th February, ano-
ther officer was picked off, Dr. Davidson; 43d Light In-
fantry. "It appears that some waggons which were
proceeding with an escort of
sale 43d Regiment from
King William's Town to Colonel Eyre's division, in the
Amicgriutooetlheaast, with supplies.' were attacked at night at
Bailey's Grave, and after firing for several hours upon
ault;pdhaeartiw,,e2r;cri,ceeded in shooting Surgeon Davidson and
three men of the 43d Regiment, One of the waggons,
it appears, struck there and occasioned delay," We also,
after the evacuation of Butterworth by the
ndileeitha,ocCkooldporoeuititcytrEeid3c-.7:4Bi?sinegiclicaort, t la o s e of
killed, and
the pingo:
,ibon....anclomaq fitors the
nesr cage-
woman and children being
tension systo, "`
of
depredation
head •of.cattle taken. An ex-
Twani, and:taheee ot,rtedatian gdes on all around. Pato,
small quantities of ~.4h.e friendly tribes, having sent in
(we fear a very pu-tatpkoar.cattle found in their country
sold, and the proceeds banded over
the whole), these were
Fund (notqo the Rat River over to the War. Relief
377/.0110 3SO/., tho proceeds 'Ol,-,lOttentot Fund)—vie.,
first instalmeet of the fine • roontiatncAdhe i
it33Bee 'of timbale's
This chiet's second paltry ipettilment, shovette—total, 745/.
in, has been declined from tkie „.„,.._ quyatly sent
(low , ft is said ' that tiolhals Z""Y
ponds on,
of its number
payment of his theftS
from others for the paym . .his fine.
The other
friendly chi, 4's, it is said, conthmade pending Cattle below,-
log to eestile chidg, which a been secreted
among,
their people. .
'After this three days' tree® the several
'After , veral divisions
under Major-General •Solnerset,- Lieutenent.Colonel
MOW, Lieutenant-CblOnel gyie, LiNitenluat.Colonel

Pole, Majorliyle,. and Captain, Campbell, C.M.R., re-
sumed their labours on the 17t4 of February. Colonel
Michel had destroyed all the cr3spa on Abe Lenya; then
marched for Wolfvalley, expersincing but little oppo-
sition; he then burned Botintites ramp, and is re-
ported to have since destroyed4ho principal Hottentot
and Kafir camp in the &entails. He was once op-
posed; but his men, it is btatedionade such "a furious
charge" that the enemy fled, ;ad did not again inter-
fere with him. Lieutenant-Coto/1g Eyre,- co-operating
with Lieutenant-Colonel Michel, ila=_the 10th of February,
separated his column into -twoildivisions, that under
Major Pinckney, 73(1, 'proceeded idlown the Valley of the
Qameya, and the Lieutenant' ldnel through the
Bomah pass. They re-united 4. the junction of the
Wolf and Keiskamen Rivers, du
Sandilli's kraal
sting
"and that of Umbimbe ' one of iit councillors; thence
proceeding along the lielebe.Kleig in view of Colonel
Michel on the Lenya,-and on the,lBth of February re-
turned to his camp in
move-
ments with the 43d Light Infants*
sition, Major Pinckney capturingA few head of cattle.
Lieutenant-Colonel'Skipvvith had
Rei4kansma Hoek without 000-
pupported these
teuant-Colonel Eyre had gone to 'ilia Data to intercept
cattle fleeing before Colonei
---- Michel.;,___Genetal Somerset
was in the Amataa range. t:
The reports of the other officerotad not betn received
on the 22d of February. - Tht,
"Onicable relationship"
with B3koo, his son Mapassa,
~e 1.4
- qui, their tribe, is an-
On the 2lit Lieu-
notneed to -extend -over the territory from the Wagon
Drift over the Kei up that river tO its confluence with
the T'Somo, thence up the left batik of the T'Sorao to
the Wagon Drift; thence in.a lin o Butterworth, and
down the waggon road to -tie and all troops and
s •
patrols are warned not to'' infer ere Wail Iliarcountrjr.
it,,,
We wish' that it may not be made. a friendly receptacle
for the cattle of the enemy.
The neighbourhood of the Macazana, Bavianan's
.
river, &c , is stated to be still overrun by the enemy's
marauding bands. Lieutenant Rutherford and the party
of burghers under him are reported to have killed seven
or eight Hottentots on-the KoonaPßiver, one of whom
is confidently stated to be the notorious Jan Pokbaas,
for whose apprehension a large reward has been offered
by the Governor. The enemy are committing sad havoc
at the deserted places. Various accounts confirm the
statement that Maeotno has received a large accession of
Tambookie warriors in the Water Kloef, and is deter-
mined to hold out as loug as he can, And it is said that
the Hottentots, who ere kept on short commons by the
Kafirs in their fastnesses, have lately been disposing of
their guns to them in exchange for food. It is, how-
ever, difficult to obtain accurate information of what is
doing at the enemy's camps.

Town Journal,
(From the Extra to the Graham's
Feb. 24.)
BY AUTHORITY.

MEMORANDUM FOTION R GENERAL INFORMA-
.
Head-quarters, King William's Town,.Feb. 21.
I have this day concluded an amicable relationship
with the Trans-Keian Chief Bokoo, and his son Mapassa,
and their tribe; and I hereby prohibit any patrol, party
of burghers, or others, from entering the territory of
their people. This territory extends from the Wagon
Drift over the Kei, up that river to its confluence with
the T'Somo; thence up the left bank of this strer.m to
the waggon drift;- thence in a line to Butterworth, and
down the. waggon-road to, the Kei.
Messengers have been sent to me by the Chief Krell
to sue for peace. These I have dismissed, desiring them
to tell Kreli that as he urged, aided, and abetted San-
dilli to go to war, exerting that paramount authority
which all the Cis-Keitws acknowledge, I cannot make
peace with him until Sandilii and the Gaikas vacate the
Amatolas and cross the Kei. The messengers are like-
wise to inform him that the hostilities which I directed
the British resident, Mr. Shaw, to suspend on the part
of the Chiefs Fuku, Nonese, Ludidi, Ungagnini, Joi, and
others, will be renewed the moment that a single act of
aggression on the part of Kreli is perpetrated.
H. swell, High Commissioner.

Head-quarters, King William's Town, Feb. 22.
The Commander-in-Chief directs the publication of
the only official reports he has received from the officers
commanding the troops in the Amatolas.
The worliof devastation has been carried on since the
15th instant with great vigour and energy by the troops,
under the command of Major General Somerset, Lieut.-
Colonel Michel, Lieut.-Colonel Eyre, Lieut.-Colonel
Pole, Major Kyle, and Captain Campbell, C. M. R.,
nearly the whole f the cultivation of the Gaika district
having been destroyed.
In a report to his Excellency's private secretary, of the
21st inst., the Gaika commissioner states!—
" has just come in from the Amatolas. He in-
forma me that yesterday Colonel ich I rned Rot
-
man's camp, and -that be this s diFeil the
principal Hottentot and Kafir camp. Colonel Michel's
column appears to have been so well arranged, and to
have gone on with such determination, that the flotten-
-
tots appear to have made but slight resistance, and
represents them as being
scattered in twos and
threes over the mountains. The spirits of the Kafirs
are very low. There is a division among
them. Sandilli and some of his councillors wishing to
leave, while others are opposed to this measure, and are
proposing instead to make an offer of surrendering their
firearms. --- states that some Kafiri came out
top yes-
he%)k Colonel Michel, but his men made such
a furious charge at ,the Kafirs that they maJe off, and
interfere with him. Colonel Eyre has to-
tddeai
dryd;goyot g
ntaeo ati
the
of the Icatu,' where a number of
cattle which fled from Colonel Michel . are gone. It is
likely that Colonel
Eyre will fall in with some of the
cattle, us .he moved early this morning. General
Somerset is on the Aniatola ridge."
The chiefs of the friendly Kafirs continue to send in
small lots of Gaika cattle, secreted among their people.
H. T.
• MAYDWELL, Military Secretary.
(NV.) Leuya Valley, Feb. 17, 1852.
Sir,--l' have the honour to report, for the information
of his Excellency. the Commander-in-Chief, that I have
destroyed all the crops in the Lenya, which were very
extensive. _

Colonel Eyre to destroy Lieutenant-ColonelioEetyre simultaneously destroyed
those in Helebe's
portion, which General Somerset with the exception of a small
there are very few crops there, arranged with Lieut.-
to-day. I march co-morrow
for the Wolf Valley; did
fired.
as' I have reason to think
ere,
to morrow night. . ,
Hardly_any opposition
a few harmless shots only I hope to be in Fort Cox
was made to our proceedings,
I beg to acknowledge Ytdbbeerienegeipt of a dispatch from
his Excellency of this
General.
re-
ceived shall scrupulously igel(t,e. The orders therein re-
oho • d
I have & •
(Signed) ' J. ee ' --e-,
allele EL, Lieutenant. Colonel,
geomrsanding Field Force.
Colonel Cloete, C. 8., le
(Copy.) Camp, liejek."'.
Sir,—ln obedience to
William'seTown, Feb. 14,
Excellency the Commander-in-Chief,
received from his
i anima Hoek, Feb. 18, 1852.
report for the informetio iin-Chief, bearing date King
moved off in two division 4852, I have the honour to
of his Excellency, that I
the force under light,swith every available man of
the 16th before day wield' early on the morning of
with a, view to support Lieute-
nant-Colonel Michel, while at officer was employed in
the devastation of the enemy's
e command of Major
destrow"3Lenya. One column, ever crops in the valley of the
Pinck-
ney, composed of two companies
try, two companies of the 73d of the 43d Light Infan-
and a portion of the Cavalry,i the Levies, and Forgoes,
the remainder of the division
the Valley
,of the Qureee directed to proceed down
met
with
through the 13omah
di. proceeded myself with
Pass. , Neither column
enemy.. Major Pinckney and ll any resistance from' the
junction of the Wolf and
numerous kraals that we
forces at the entrance c,f 0 myself re-united our
Keil nerrah Pass, near the
of the
them Sandilli's, if we
of
the kraal of Um-
tfchuecr
dpricocteheadteldoctablieltye,starco/atizheona amma rivers, and toge-
may believe the testimony
en, whom we have
_that chief. Having
113 could see distinctly
taken prisoners. We also
bambe, one of the councillors
reached the Efelebe kloof, whenocett
I commenced
the Lenya and
i mw
hmi
ce
hd i
ca
ot eml y-
Lieutenant-Colonel Michel's
crowned the heights of Mount
/La:110'1=1d,
mended equally the two valleys
the Helebe kloofs, after which
the crops in the latter kloof, which was
destroying
reaching up to the summit of Mount Macdonald.
very extensive,
whole of this cultivation (with the Macdonald. The
patches which General Somerset, he exception of a few
sub-
sequently bad with him, eternised taccenference I
effectually devastated by the troops underdestroy), were
We bivouacked on the summit oflitt my command.
near' the General's encampment. 0 ount Macdonald,
morning, the 17th, at daylight,' We n the following
through a dense fog down the steep side
tped our way
overlooking Fort. Cox, into the Lenya Valley, the mountain
to assist Lieut.-Oolonel Michel in the alley, in order
destruction of the
crops in that valley; but finding that the work was al-
ready done, and by eight o'clock in
the m
that there was no neceselity for
myce. morning; and
operation, I
proceeded up the valley of the Keiskamni
devastated the crops in the Qiornega en route,and having
to my camp at this station before
, dark. I returned
made no attempt at resistance. In fact, three The enemy
Kafirs were all that we saw during the tv,i, d or four
tions. The troops had two most ardno„,, d ays' opera-
. they went throuati with their accustomed ays, "lel'
I beg particularly to express my
thxked-will.
to Major
' Pinckney, who conducted his detached columns
usual intelligence, surpriing the enemy andc with his
few (half-a-tiozen) cows, Also to Lieutenant-Colonel
Skipwith, 431 Light Irfantry, who effectually supported
me throughout these operations; also to L-
ieutenant Du-
rant, 12th Royal Lances, commanding the
Captain Griffiths, commanding the Levies; and cavalry;
Lieu-
tenatit:Vice commanding the Fingoes. I
9 have also re-
, teived every assistance from mY Field-Ad' Jetant Reeve,
73d Regimeat.

&C.,
(Signed) Wx. EYRE, Lieut.-Colonel, 73d Re;.,..
Colonel Cloete, C. 8., Quarter-Mast" General.
H. L. Maydiv ell,
H. (True Copies.)
Military Secretary.
We have ri ceivcd important information from the
front by this morning's military mail. The Official ac-
counts show that the troops well nigh
completed the
destruction of the Kafirs' crops- From Colonel Eyre
and Colonel Michel the accounts are encouraging, but
from the division under the immediate corumaud of mg..