The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-17 00:00:00

THE KAFIR WAR.

Llst night's London Gazette contains the follow-
inv. dispatch from Lieutenant-General Sir Henry G.
W. Smith, Bart,, Governor of the Cape of Good
Hol :-

" King William's Town, July 3, 1851.
" Lord,—The general and combined move-
men'. into the Amatola mountains, which I have long
had in contemplation, has been effected with the
success I anticipated, and which I have now the ho-
nour to lay before your Lordship.
" I directed the first division, under Major-General
Somerset, the second division, under Colonel Mac-
kinnon, and a force of 500 men from Whittlesea, under
Captain Tylden, so to post themselves that these
mountain ranges might be penetrated by four dis-
tinct columns converging to a centre, and which was
carried out much to my satisfaction, the operations
commencing on the 26th, and continuing until the
30th ult. The combinations were skilfully effected ;
each column was at its post as directed ; mutual
support was thus given, and signal success was in
consequence the rer.,ult. I enclose the reports of
Major-General Somerset and of Colonel Mackinnon,
who was unfortunately indisposed after the first day's
operations, anr:., his valuable services thus lost. This able
officer, horNever, communicated his instructions to
Lient.-Cr;lonel Michel, upon whom the command de-
volved, ?And whose judgment and energy became con-
spicuo us. His report, with those of Lieut.-Colonels
Eyrr.) and Cooper, is annexed, together with the general
oreAer and Government notice which I issued on the
arAievement of this important success. They so fully
demonstrate the peculiar difficulties and arduous cha-
racter of this mountain service, that I beg to draw
your Lordship's attention to its perusal ; and I, at the
same time, desire to attract your notice to the marked
eulogium passed upon Ensign Robertson, of the Cape
Mounted Rifles, captain in command of a detachment
of Armstrong's Horse. The success of every patrol
invariably involves the gallant conduct of this young
and most intrepid officer, in whose rising judgment I
place every confidence. _ .

Major-General Somerset speaks in the highest
terms of Lieutenant-Colonel Fordyce and the 74th
Regiment, recently arrived from England, upon
whom the brunt of these operations fell in the first
division ; and I also desire to draw your Lordship's
attention to the ability displayed in command by,
Lieutenant-Colonel Michel, of the 6th Royal Regi-
ment; to the usual conspicuous gallantry of Lieute-
nma-Colonel Eyre and the 73d ; and to the conduct of
the Royal Marines of her Majesty's ship Castor,
under their officer Lieutenant Harris, and attached to
the 73d, which equally merits my commendation.
Lieutenant-Colonel Cooper, 45th Regiment, com-
manded with much ability the column of troops from
Fort Cox.
"1,500 head of cattle, 42 horses, and nearly 1,000
goats were captured by the second division, 350 head
of cattle by the first division, and 300 by the force
under Captain Tylden, while large stores of corn were
destroyed, as well as numerous recently-constructed
huts. To he compelled thus barbarously to prosecute
war, ever cruel in even its most mitigated form, is re-
volting to the Christian mind. But no other course is
open. The feeling with which the European regards
his country and his home is, in the case of the Kafir
centered in his herds and flocks, for which he will fight
to the last, and the only means of opening a prospect
of bringing to a close this harassing and distressing
war is to wrest his much-prized cattle from him in
the heart of his fastnesses and almost impenetrable
fore-ts, into which he drives them for concealment
and security. In the midst of these scenes of deso-
lation I am consoled by the fact that the people are
aware that the war was commenced by their chief
Sandilli ; that every prisoner is set at liberty, and
to!d that peace and the former harmony which pre-
vailed are our only objects after the due punishment
of the war party and their rebellious chiefs ; and more
than all, by the gratifying reflection that our troops
can be charged with no act of wanton cruelty. Not
one instance has been brought to my notice of any
outrage having been perpetrated by the ever-humane
British soldier, or even by the excited Hottentot or
exasperated Fingoe ; and this is the more commend-
able when it is borne in mind that the atrocities com-
mitted by the Kafirs at the commencement of the
war are fresh in the recollection of our soldiery.
Avoiding on their own part all wanton excess, they
at the same time cannot forget the cold-blooded
murder of our military villagers, perpetrated under
the guise of friendship, or the massacre on the Debe
Flats of the 17 soldiers of the 45th Regiment, who
had given no provocation, and with whom their mur-
derers had for three years been on terms of the most
friendly intercourse.

" The success in the Amatolas which I have now
reported has, however, had no perceptible effect as
regards the termination of hostilities. The people
indeed declare, as I learn from information which
reaches me from various sources, that they are tired
of the struggle, and that our patrols keep them in a
state of constant alarm ; while the chief Sandilli as-
serts and gives out that an agent has gone, on :his
account, to England, who will procure the restora-
tion of the land which he forfeited in the previous
war;' such forfeiture having been the condition on
which he obtained his own liberty and that of his
Great Men,' who were in confinement with him
when I assumed the administration of this Govern-
ment, and on which peace and tranquillity were given
to his people. In proof that an assertion of this kind
has been made by Sandilli, I annex the copy of a de.
position formally made by the chief Toise before the
T'Slambie commissioner, the purport of which is cor-
roborated by various spies in my employ.
" My next patrol will be directed against the chiefs
Stock and Tola, and the renegade rebel Hottentots,
who have located themselves in the Fish River Bush,
to intercept my communications with Graham's-town,
and to spoil the cattle of the Fingoes around For
Peddie. I have, &c.,

" H. G. SMITH.

" The Right Hon. Earl Grey.
" P.S. Since this dispatch was closed I have re-
ceived a report from Major-General Somerset, that he
had continued for some days his operations o❑ the
north side of the Amatolas,—another proof of the ac•
tivity and energy of this experienced officer. I en•
close his report in the shape in which I have given it
publicity in a general order.

" G. H. SDIITII."

[Major-General Somerset's report referred to in the
above dispatch is dated from the camp on the Qui-
sans, the 28th of June, 1851, and gives a detailed
account of the operations of her Majesty's forces.
The following extracts include the most interesting
portions of the Gallant Officer's report, which is ad-
dressed to Lieut.-Colonel Cloete, Deputy Quarter-
master- General
"I have the honour to acquaint you, for the infor-
mation of his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief,
that, agreeably to the instructions contained in the
Commander-in-Chief's memorandum of the 14th inst.,
I moved from this camp with the troops under my
orders before daylight on the 26th inst.
" At dawn I ascended the western range of the
Amatola heights in two columns, and having esta-
blished the troops on the ridge, I halted preparatory
to attacking the position of the enemy in the forest on
the northern range of the Amatola, previous to which
I proceeded with a detachment of the Cape Mounted
Rifl- to reconnoitre the position of the enemy along
the slope of the Victoria heights. On reaching the
southern point of the range the enemy opened a brisk
fire on my party, which was returned by the Cape
Mounted Rifles, and was sustained by both sides until
the column of the Levies, consisting of the George,
Graaff-Reinet, and Fort Beaufort Fingoes, whom I
had detached to the right under Captain Heathcote,
had been brought up; these I immediately moved
forward, supported by two companies of the 91st Re-
giment, under Major Forbes, the whole commanded
by Lieut.-Colonel Sutton, and the enemy was driven
from his position into the valley below.
`°While these operations were going forward? I re-
turned to my left, and moved the 74th Regiment,
Cape Mounted Rifles, European Levy, Kat River
Levy, and Alice and Port Elizabeth Fingoe Corps,
down the valley into the Amatola basin. Perceiving
the enemy's force of Kafirs and rebel Hottentots
strongly posted along the lower ridges under the
northern range of the Amatola, and collected
,in
strong body on the extreme point of the ridge, partly
concealed and covered by the high rocks and stones,
I directed Lieut.-Colonel Fordyce to move his regi-
ment on to the attack, this movement being flanked
by the Alice and Port Elizabeth Fingoes, under
Captains Cumber and Ayliff.
" The enemy commenced a brisk fire on the ad-
vancing troops and Fingoes, both from the forest and
the ridge—the 74th Highlanders steadily moving for-
ward and deploying into line under fire, -extended and
opened. its fire on the enemy, who still kept up a gal-
ling fire on the troops, and continued it until the
position was most gallantly carried, and the regiment
placed in position on the ridge—not, however, I re-
gret to say, without some loss on our side, three men
of the 74th Highlanders being killed, and one offh er
and nine men wounded.

" The force under Lieutenant-Colonel Sutton had
in th 4 meantime driven the enemy from his position
on the. lower range into the valley, and up the ridge
of the Victoria heights, but with the loss of three
tnerk killed of the George Levy, and five Fingoes
sew rely wounded, two of them since dead.
" The Fort Beaufort Fingoes having again rejoined
me, I moved the Kat River Levy, European Levy,
and Fort Beaufort Fingoes up the ridges of the
northern range of the Amatola, proceeding also to that
point inyself with the Cape Mounted Rifles and
Mounted George Levy, at which point I met the 74th
Regiment, where Lieutenant. Colonel Fordyce had
again been strongly attacked by the enemy from a
strip of forest bush which intersected the ridges at
that point, and where two of his gallant soldiers were
killed.

THE S lEJN,

" Having assembled the troops at this point, it
being then one o'clock, I halted the troops to refresh,
and proceeded myself to reconnoitre the ground and
country at the head of the Zanooka or Wolf River.
On the ridge at the left bank of the Zanooka I ob-
servered a reconnoitering party of the Cape Mounted
Rifles from, I imagine, one of the detached columns
from head-quarters. On my returning to where I
had left the troops, some of the rebels, I understood,
had called out that they wished to surrender. Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Sutton rode out to hear what they had
to say, when they stated that many of them wished
to come away, but were afraid ; that they wished
time to collect their people, that they might consult,
and all come together ; and they requested a week.
I caused them to be informed that they must sur-
render immediately, and that I would only give
them half an hour.
" At the expiration of the time, the troops being
refreshed, I moved the 74th Regiment again upon
their position, flanked by the Fort Beaufort Fingoes ;
Lieutenant-Colonel Fordyce took the opportunity to
inter two men of the 74th who had fallen, and then
moved on ; some sharp firing took place, but the
enemy retired into the forest and up the mountains,
and abandoned the position ; one soldier of the 7th
Regiment was, I am sorry to say, severely wounded
upon this occasion. I then retired the troops into the
Amatola valley, and at five o'clock P.M. bivouacked
for the night.
" On the morning of the 27th inst. I made arrange-
ments for conveying the wounded to my
camp on the
Quisana, which occupied some time.
" At 12 o'clock I moved the force in three columns
up the eastern range of the Amatola mountain, the
enemy showing in small bodies on several points.
" The ascent of the mountain is precipitous and
very difficult. Crossing the ridge I moved the troops
down the valley to the sources of the Zanooka, and
ordered them to encamp, taking the Cape Mounted
Rifles, and Kat River Levy and Alice Fingoes with
me ; I proceeded along the ridges towards the head
of the Ligney stream, I observed a reconnoitring
party of the enemy, posted in the forest bush which
intersects the ridge near Mount Macdonald. When
moving up with the Cape Mounted Rifles we were
briskly attacked, but the enemy was driven back by a
sharp fire from the Cape Mounted Rifles, and the
levies and Fingoes then coming up, the enemy was
driven off, and descended into the valley of the Kei-
kamrna; it being then dusk, I returned and bivou-
acked for the night in Zanooka valley; during these
operations I saw nothing of any force from Fort Cox.
" On the morning of the 28th inst., moving shortly
after sunrise, I proceeded with the force towards
Mount Macdonald, where I reached at ten A.M., de-
taching the corps of levies into the valley of the
Zanooka to intercept the enemy's cattle.
"I observed small detached parties of the enemy
at some distance, who descended into the valley of the
Keiskamma, but I observed no troops or any force
below in the valleys; the enemy made no show of
resistance. _

" I proceeded with the Cape Mounted Rifles, and
occupied the high point of the mountain at the head
of the Ligney, while the levies passed down the
Zanooka, and brought out about 350 head of cattle,
chiefly cows and calves, all very poor. I returned
with the troops along the ridges, leaving the two
companies of the 91st Regiment to cover the return
of the levies to the bivouack, which was done leisurely,
leaving no part unscoured. While halted on the
Amatola range, a shot was fired from a high point of
the forest, by which, I regret to say, Captain Mel-
ville, of ;,the George Levy, was severely wounded
through the arm. The troops all assembled from their
several points of operations shortly after dusk.
" I am of opinion, from the appearance of the cattle
kraals, that the great body of the Kafir :cattle have
been sent away some time ago. There is no grass or
herbage of any kind in the Amatola or Zanooka
valleys, and not sufficient grass even for horses. The
cattle captured yesterday are miserably poor and
starved.

" L ite last evening a Hottentot from the rebel
camp came in and surrendered ; he brought me a
message to say that a large body of the rebels would
surrender in two days.
" Having expended all my provisions, and there
being no grass whatever for ithe horses, I returned to
my camp this morning.:
" To the officers commanding corps and detach-
ments—Lieutenant-Colonel Fordyce, commanding
74th Highlanders, and commanding my first bri-
gade; Lieutenant-Colonel Sutton, C.M.R., command-
ing my second brigade ; Major Forbes, commanding
the detachment 91st Regiment ; and Major Somerset,
C.M.R., commanding the cavalry, I am greatly in-
debted for their exertions and assistance.

" To the officers commanding levies—Captain Ste-
venson, commanding first European Levy ; Captains
Heathcote, Melville, and Hobbs, all commanding their
several corps of levies; as well as to Captains Cum-
bers, Verity, and Ayliff, commanding the Fingoe
levies, I have to express my thanks and approbation.
" I am not aware of what the enemy's loss was, the
contiguity of the forest having given them every ad-
►antage of carrying off their killed and wounded ; they
were observed carrying them into the bush.

" RETURN OF TUE KILLED AND WOUNDED.

" 74th Regiment-3 rank and file killed ; 1 officer,
Lieutenant W. W. J. Bruce, and 9 rank and file,
wounded.

" Levies —1 sergeant and 2 rank and file killed; 1
officer, Captain Melville, and 4 rank and file, wounded,
2 mortally."

Lieutenant• Colonel Mitchell's report to Colonel
Mackinnon is dated King William's Town, July 1,
and states that he marched at 12 o'clock on the night
of the 28th of June, with a force of 1,777 men to the
Gulu Mountains.

" Having marched until daylight with the infantry
I detached Colonel Eyre, with about 750 men, up the
right ridge of the Gulu.
With the remainder of the force I marched up
the gorge of the Gulu, into a deep nest of kloofs, a
fastness which a few resolute men might hold against
a host. At the entrance of the innermost kloof my
advance guard was received with a volley from a few
men on the front and right, and at a few paces dis-
tance, with, lam happy to say, no result. The men
dashed into the bush, and held it for an hour or two,
while the Fingoes drove out several large herds of
cattle and goats.
" We then moved over tremendous steeps to a dis-
tant spur of the Gulu, where we encamped for the
night. During the capture of the cattle the Kafirs
amused themselves with taking a few long shots at the
men. The conduct of the men who had marched,
with little intermission, from twelve at night until
five o'clock in the evening, without food, was ad-
mirable.
"In this affair the Kafirs were entirely taken by
surprise ; the result has been the capture of 1,500
cattle, 500 goats, and 22 horses.
" On the 29th we marched back to your camp.
On approaching the Quilly Quilly Mountain we per-
ceived a body of about 300 Kafirs on our left, and a
smaller body on the right. I sent Colonel Eyre, with
the 73d, to the left of the road, who, by his admirable
mode of handling his troops, did not permit the Kafirs
to come fairly into action. They skirmished, how-
ever, with the 733, for about an hour, in the dense
bush.

"I dispatched the remainder of the troops to the
right, with the exception of the 6th, who covered the
rear, and having seized on every point, the cattle and
baggage moved on to the camp without a shot fired at
them. The Kafirs were not in numbers sufficient to
attack the right, and being held in check by the Ma-
rines, who were planted on a commanding abutting
rock, skirmished but feebly with the 6th and Rifle
Company, who behaved very steadily and well under
their respective commanders. The Kafirs followed
the troops till they reached the open country.
" Some few Kafirs were killed in the two days'
patrol, and on our side one man 73d wounded and
three horses ; these and four horses also were lost by
rolling down the montains, and either breaking their
necks or being captured by the Kafirs.
"Nothing could exceed the excellent spirits with
which both English and natives did their duty.
"Captain Robertson, commanding a body of horse,
whom Colonel Michel directed to ascend the Ama-
toles to the right of the Gulu, succeeded in capturing
about 1,000 head of cattle and ten or twelve horses,
and in killing and wounding several Kefirs."
The following passage in Lieutenant-Colonel
Eyre's report to Colonel Michel, dated from the camp
on the Unadizini River, June 30, conveys an idea
of the nature of the services in which the troops were
engaged :
" I beg to bring to the notice of his Excellency-the
Commander-in-Chief the conduct of Captaia Dar-
nell on this occasion. In the performance of his duty
he pursued his prey with admirable pertinacity, in
spite of the natural obstacles of the ground, and the
presence of the enemy, relying with confidence on a
support which he knew to be sure, though distant.
This duty being performed, I immediately turned
my steps to the left, and proceeded to work may
way through a succession of kloofs at the head of
the valley, steep and thickly studded with bush,
through which there was not even a Kafir's path
perceptible. 'We reached the furthest tongue of
land which overlooked the main channel of the
valley; beyond that it was impossible to proceed. We
captured in the kloofs 286 head of cattle, which would
have escaped over the table ridge but for the presence
of Captain Robertson. Our division captured in a 11572
head of cattle, horses, and several hundred goats
The conduct of all—troops and levies—was admirable.
The men marched incessantly for fourteen hours, and
during
the latter six hours they toiled up and down
heights, and
through kloofs all but inaccessible ;
but their, goodwill and cheerfulness never deserted
them."

Another dispatch to Earl Grey from Sir H. G.
Smith, dated the 19th of July, continues the ac-
count of the military operations as follows :

LONDON,

" My dispatch of the 3d instaet will have informed
your Lordship alit I contemplated to detach a force
into the Fish River bush, to expel the Kafir and Hot-
tentot rebels, who were committing depredations
within the colony, and endeavouring to interrupt my
communication with Graham's Town. I have now
the honour to report that this service has been very
effectively performed by Lieutenant-Colonel Michel,
of the 6th Royal Regiment, and Major Wilmot, Royal
Artillery, under the latter of whom I placed the levies
and Fingoes at Fort Peddie.
"These operations continued during nine days,
little resistance having been offered by the enemy. A
herd of 88 colonial cattle and six horses were captured,
and an encampment of the Hottentot Theopolis rebels
was destroyed. Seven half-starved and miserable
women, some with children, were taken, and have
been brought to head-quarters in one of the commis-
sariat waggons. They are either unable or unwilling
to throw any light on the causes which led to the mis-
conduct of their husbands and their eons at Theopo-
lis, merely saying, The Kafiri fetched us away.' A
quantity of clothes, and, among other things, a num-
ber of Bibles, were found in the camp. The Fingoes,
whose comrades had been so treacherously and bar-
barously murdered at Theopolis, naturally showed
great exasperation, but I am happy to say, beyond
spoiling the camp, they committed no acts of violence.
"Your Lordship will thus perceive the result pro-
duced by my combined movements in the Ainatolas.
Meanwhile depredations have been committed within
the colony to a lamentable extent, so much so, that
Major-General Somerset, upon the urgent represen-
tation of the civil commissioner of the division of
' Somerset,' has moved a large mounted force, with
some Fingoes and levies, upon the Bush Neck' and
the Kaga and Koonap rivers, where he has been very
successful in intercepting marauding parties, and re-
capturing their spoil. I have requested the Major-
General to establish posts of burghers, if they will
turn out in their own defence, at every eligible point;
and I have expressed my wish that he should return
with his force to Fort Hare. Lamentable as the ex-
cesses are, former experience strongly inclines me to
believe that they are the last efforts of the enemy,
who in all previous wars has invariably made a rush
into the colony immediately before his final submis•
sion. lam therefore the more anxious to continue
my combined operations in the Ainatolas, which in
the present dispirited state of the G-aikas would, I
hope, bring hostilities to a close. All reports tend to
the belief that now is the time to persevere in the ag-
gressive. Desirous, however, as lam for peace, I
shall not fail to keep in mind your Lordship's injunc-
tions, so consonant with my own views, that it must
not be patched up on the hollow assurances of rebels,
who flew treacherously to arms and committed the
most atrocious murders ; but that it must be preceded
by their unconditional submission, and be established
upon such a basis of justice and equity, to both co-
lonist and Kafir, as can hardly fail to ensure future
tranquillity."
In a third dispatch Sir H. G. Smith observes :
"My dispatch of the 19th inst. will have made
your Lordship acquainted with the success of my
operations, in British Kafraria. No further infor-
mation than that previously reported had then reached
me from Major-General Somerset or from Major
Warden, the British Resident in the Orange River
territory. I have now the honour to transmit copies
of the reports which I received yesterday from both
these officers, and of one from Major Donovan, com-
manding the troops at Bloem Fontein.
" The unremitting zeal and activity of Major-
General Somerset, and his experience and abilities in
the direction of the force which I have placed under
his authority, will I hope counteract all the evils
within the colony which he so feelingly describes ;
and I rely with the greater confidence on such a re-
sult from the judicious arrangements which he has
already made, set forth in the enclosed 'Frontier
Order.' They provide for much that is contained in
a Memoir' addressed to me by the Board of Defence
at Graham's Town, the copy of which I enclose, to-
gether with that of my reply.
"In the Orange River territory affairs are by no
means in so satisfactory a position as I could desire.
In my memorandum to the officers in authority there,
it is far from my intention to convey censure, having
full confidence in their discretion ; but risks should
never be run, nor any attempt made to carry an
enemy's position, especially in the commencement of
a war, without every probability of success. It would
have been gratifying to me to be able to extend my
report of successful operations in British Kafraria to
the Orange River districts, and I trust that my next
intelligence will enable me to do so.
" Two strong patrols under Lieutenant-Colonel
Michel and Lieutenant-Colonel Eyre are now in the
field in British Kafraria in opposite directions, :in
order to follow up the recent successes..—l have, &c.,
" H. G. SMITH.
" P.S. Just as the mail was about to start the im-
portant and sensible letter from Mr. Gladwin, at But-
terworth, of which the enclosed is a copy, reached
me, and I opened my dispatch in order to communi-
cate to your Lordship this satisfactory intelligence,
which I hope may reach Cape Town in time for the
mail steamer. I shall be very guarded in my replies,
and hold well the vantage ground I have obtained."
The following passage in Major Warden's report
describes the incident which elicited the Commander•
in-Chief's memorandum above referred to :
" In my letter of the 27th ult. to your Excellency's
secretary, Colonel Garvock, I mentioned that the
force under Major Donovan would move on the fol-
lowing day towards Sikongela's country, in order to
enable that chief to join the tribe.
" We took the waggon-road, and when about ten
miles from Plat Berg the advanced guard was fired
upon by a party concealed behind some rocks. Not
a shot was returned on our side, and the troops with
the burghers and native contingents encamped near
the mountain called Vier Voet: During the night
some shots were again fired by the enemy, and a
Fingoe sentry badly wounded. The next day, being
Sunday, the commando made no movement, the ene-
my, however, was observed to be in force on the Vier
Voet Mountain, and on the following morning Major
Donovan gave the order for attack ; most gallantly
was it made, and the stronghold of the enemy carried
with severe loss to our opponents. The Barolongs,
700 strong, after capturing some thousands of cattle,
and believing that no further fighting was required,
remained on the mountain for the purpose of plunder-
ing the huts, and regaling themselves on Kafir beer,
which was found in large quantities. During this
time two large Basontu commandoes, under Moshesh's
brother Mosseni, and Molappa, Moshesh's son,
gained the summit of the mountain and fell upon the
Barolongs, who were taken by surprise, and had it not
been for the gallant stand made by the Boers under
Commandant Erasmus, who had observed the ap-
proach of the Basontus, very few of the Barolongs
would have escaped ; as it was, 138 Barolongs were
killed and many wounded. A six-pounder gun, well
horsed, and supported by a detachment of Cape
Mounted Rifles, under Ensign Somerset, and a
party of Boers, under Mr. A. Eervee, was hard
pressed by the enemy for many hours, and escaped
with difficulty.
" Had the Barolongs left the mountains immedi-
ately after routing their first opponents, the loss of
life on our side would have been trifling compared to

that of the enemy, whereas it is now almost equal.
Moroko lost 131, the Koranas, Le Puis and Bethany
people 14, making a total of 152, besides a great many
wounded. Among the killed, I regret to say, are two
of Moroko's brothers, and the leader of the Bethany
natives.

" The Basutu tribe have joked the Battamy and
Koranas, under the Gert Lynks, we may number
our enemy in this sovereignty at about 10,000 fight-
ing men.'

The following are the chief points in Mr. Glad-
win's letter, dated Butterworth, July 31, 1851, to
which Sir H. G. Smith attaches importance :
" Your Excellency will be gratified to hear of the

favourable turn in our affairs at Butterworth. O❑
Saturday, the 11th instant, the chief Rili came here,
and although he felt some difficulty in looking me
direct in the face, it was evident from his whole
deportment that a great change had passed over him.
This doubtless was one of the results of the late
movements in the Amatola mountains; that affair
has opened his eyes, and he now professes to see a
little more clearly, although he tried, as every Kafir
chief will do, to argue through the whole subject;
but his feat were soon struck from under him, and he
was left without any plea in extenuation of his people's
conduct.

"On Monday, the 13th, he came again, when 1
pointed out to him the consequence which must result
to himself and tribe by allowing his people to rob and
plunder without restraint. He professed to be 'very
thankful to me for showing him these things, as much
so as though he had never seen or thought of them
before. He also said, You have done right in not
leaving Butterworth ; by remaining you have helped
me, and to-day you are ' Hinza.'
After arguing through the whole subject, I brought
him to the business part of the question, and having
had an intimation that he intended to request me to
write to your Excellency on behalf of Sandilli, I an-
ticipated him by distinctly telling him that the only
way for him to gain your Excellency's ear on any
subject was for him first to make all matters right
concerning himself. To this he replied by saying,
I will make my people pay for all the shops plun-
dered in my country.'
"Not knowing the course your Excellency might
deem proper to pursue towards Rili, I endeavoured to
impress upon him the importance of sending men, as
requested by your Excellency, when to them every
point would be fully explained.
" I then called his attention to another subject on
which I thought your Excellency would require some
explanation—viz., the Hottentots in his country. I
told him to prepare his answer on that point, as your
Excellency would hold him responsible for the mis-
chief they had dono while in his country, and also
direct him as to his future course towards them.