The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-06 00:00:00

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Now, hear my word to Krell, sent through Bokoo :
With Bokoo and Mapassa I make peace, and their
enemies shall be my enemies, and Bokoo and Mapassa
shall do all I order them. They must seize and send to
me any cattle of the Gaikas which may be drives into
their country for protection; their people may sit and
reap their fields. Bokoo shall mend to Kreli to say I
demand—

1. 500 head of cattle for the destruction of But-
terworth.
2. 1,000 head for the insults and injury done to the
traders. _ _ _

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3. That he drive out of his country every Hottentot,
and that he " eats them up "
4. That he expels from his councils that old enemy of
Government, Klaba Klein, and eats him up.
5. That he forfeits all claim to any authority on this
side of the Kye, and that he sends no message to any
chief on this aide of it.
6. These things duly agreed upon between me and
four of Kreli's councillors, I will make peace with him
when his councillors arrive, which must be in a few days,
or I will move the troops again over the Kei, sweep off
the rest of his cattle, and destroy his corps,
while Faku,
Nonesi, Ludidi, Joi, and others, shall fall upon his once
rich fields, covered with herds and goats, and richly
cultivated—they shall be a desert and he an outcast.
What had Kreli to complain of when he did all he could,
as he called it, " to drive the English into the sea?"
Now, Kreli mutt hear why I went to war:—
When the Gaikas went to war, Kreli saw that their
cause was an unjust one, and he sent me a dun ox
as an emblem of peace, and in token of his amity.
After this I placed confidence in him, end I would
not believe the reports made me—that he was en-
couraging the Gaikas, and that many of his people
had joined in the war, and that others had robbed
and assaulted the traders over the Kei. I called upon
him _ta account for this.. He saw Mr. Conway; he pro-
-mised fairly-4-sent messengers 'with Conway; pedmiaing
to satisfy all just demands as soon as the war was over.
I again believed him; he then ordered the missionary
and traders to withdraw from Butterworth, and directed
Unzuboo to see them out of the country, who refused,
and said the duty was too great fur him, only a chief
elide'. Krell, that he (Kreli) must come and do it
himself.
The bold and firm conduct of the Rev. Mr. Gladwin
alone saved himself and the British.
Krell sent tee messengers to Umhala and Pete, dt-
siring them to "join to drive the English into the sea."
listened, but his people as a body aid not.
Many, very many, of his young men and the minor chiei,
Umtandisi, tied all his psople,yoined the Gaika3. I have
fined Umbel°, olio thousand head of cattle. Pato assem-
bled his people to hear the message, that Kreli might
know their feeling. The answer was, "We are all
English—you, Kroh, must send us no more messages."
Plato added, " If the English are driven into the sea I
will go with them." Kreli next personally leads his
people with the Tambookies against the Boer commando,
which had moved against the Tambookies to the Um-
vani, but had not crossed into Kreli's country. The
Kafirs were beaten; many slain. Kreli's people fled on
horseback; Kreli, in order to stop them, jumped off his
horse, calling them to do so, but they fled.
The traders were again robbed; a Kafir escort of
Unhala's, with some waggons from the Kei fired on, two
of them wounded, their guns taken, traders' cattle
seized; redress was sought in vain. Krell laughed at
the application, and declared that he was at war. When
he sent me the ox of peace I desired him not to allow the
Gaika cattle to cross the Kei; he promised, but be
sheltered them. Where now is Kreli's great ox, Gu-
gumba? Taken by my people, and Kreli degraded.
These are the causes why I invaded Krell, and made
Fake, Nonesi, and others tall upon him. Faku had not
forgotten Kreli's treatment of his daughter.
Krell has lost 30,000 head of cattle, 14,000 goats,
and many horses taken by the troops and
allies; hundreds of men slain. 7,000 Fingoes,
whom ho held in bondage as slaves, who, having
thrown themselves under the protection of the troops,
brought with them 30,000 more cattle, have joined tbp.
English and sought shelter in the colony.
now wants peace ; he would never have been
at war had he listened to the advice of
Bokoo
Mapassa, and Umguboo, all of whom behaved we went
until
Kreli ordered them to fight. How dare Krell I say
to war alone to redress the inj
was cause sufficient, and for this wouldnhta _he
sea:,
Leturies of the tvreadmeards.e That
war;
but his object was " to drive the English into he
him look at his own country
their cattle swept off—their people
of•,aikas h „
have fallen
like his own, a desert—thousands
.ser
now, and n
attato their t e
cGa
as
try, s
who dealthonestl h
observe the I
y dwhit.
excited to war by Krell! lie had nothing to complain of;
wishes; he
his people—a resident to hear his he had his missionary—traderse
ey and w‘ ere inadnepenia-
P:a'acme;wreisc'hanian
People had everythin
n chief cattle, and
difference between war a
dent. Let him look etchnd
the B—their chiefs at-
tending to their oath to obey great Queen of
authorities. E-
n shall never
happy—respecting their
land and her MajestY
t chief; he
bo recognised as a gres
and is a chief only between
the Kei and Bashes; unless he enter into the terms
I with Faku and others, make war on him
I offer,
till I eat him tip.
Bokoo 's messengers again spoke. They thank for the
word the Governor had just spoken, and said
they did
not think Bokoo was so much to blame as others, as he
took care of the traders as long as he could.
The Governor replied that that was true, and
for that reason he was willing to make a se 1 was
separate peace
with Bokoo, and had sent a sealed message to him
before the troops crossed the Kei, to
9 _ the effect that if his
people continued quiet
molested. and peaceable they would not be
The messengers then departed, orders b •
by them (through K •
at Kreli) to Mr. Shaw, the British resi-
dent Morley, to suspend hostilities beyond the Kei.
The says:—
"
Cape Frontier Times of Feb. 3, ye:—
" We have nothing
set's movements. On the 28th tilt. as his division was
marching towards the Ama o t 1 a range, his rear guard was
hailed
by some of the rebels, one of whom said be was
tathaalder, and that he wanted to talk, but this officer
paid no heed to their attempt at parley. We hear, however,
that on the next day a parley was held, in the course of
which .the rebels said they had no objection to have peace,
although they were not particularly anxious about it—they
had all they wanted excepting tobacco, in exchange for
which they would be glad to give ammunition. The parley,
however, ended in an attack by the Kafirs upon those en-
gaged in the parley, and this resulted in an engagement in
which the Colonial forces, under Captain Fisher, composed of
the Rat river people and Fingoes, retired with some diffi-
culty from the enemy, having succeeded in capturing eleven
head of cattle and five goats out of a herd of some thousands
of cattle seen from the camp."
A letter from King William's Town, 30th tilts, states
that " 1,000 head of cattle have been demanded of Um-
bels for his misdeeds, and that provisional titles to the
erven have been granted this week." Another letter
states, " 12 canteens are to be licensed at King Wil-
liam's Town." " KiAg William's Town, Feb. LI
Colonel Pole, commanding the patrol at the Cabousnie,
had captured 700 head of cattle on the 31st ult.,
b they were
had crossed the spoor of large herds, wine
o acct-
in pursuit of ; they had killed a few Kafiri', but 0.
dent had been met with on the part of the trotaonp: ‘,"
e while
Michers patrol had met with a trifling retscianant
in the the Qailli Quills Valley, where
f; f wounded in
tags, of the 6th Regiment, was 670,1 e regiment, lost
the arm, and a drummer•boy, of the_
au.
Another letter
his' arm, said to be by the same b
rplef sthlition
(244 initant).o%tee that Colonel