Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-10-06

ly to be speared to death. The death.
OF those unfortunate subjects since
Lieutenant Farewell has been at Natal
average at least so week. There
has not been discovered or heard Of
since the commencement Of the Caffry
country on the frontiers of Cape colo
ny, taking the whole extent of the coast
to the third degree of south latitude,
so consummate, cruel, and perfect a ty.
rant
So extraordinary was the appearance
of that noble animal the horse to Cha
ca and his tribe, that when Lieut.. Fare
well first arrived among them, and
Chaca saw the horse gallop, mounted,
he Offered and actually gave Lieutenant
Farewell six live bullocks to gallop
him again. He holds the animal in
the greatest terror and fear, nor could
he be reconciled to approach it. He
has an abundance Of bullocks, and to
prevent their destruction, from the in
trusion of the numerous quadrupeds,
they are kraaled in every night. Since
our enterprizing countryman has been
at Port Natal, Chaca has established
two kraals on rising ground, COM
nYanding a view of Lieut.. Farewell's
location containing about fifty blacks
Gas Chaca says, for the purpose Of
protecting him. Much it is feared, al
though this officer is at present ia
vored participant of his grant and at
lention, that these blacks will be order
ed to embrace an unengaged moment
and himself fall vicum to the blood
thirsty appetite Of this BARBARIAN
Lieut. Farewell, while bartering for
ivory, is also employed in fortifyipg
himself, having already completed =
wall eleven feet high, trenched without,
and mounted on it four four-poundcrs;
and is erecting house in the centre,
of the materials of the country, ma
nure, clay, and earth; this party now
consists at Port Natal of two English
men and four Hottentots. There is
another enterprizing young man of
the name of Flynn, in the service of
Lieut.. Farewell about so miles from
Port Natal. 4 he natives seem much
attached to him. He has adopted the
custom OF the country by going naked,
except a piece Of cloth round his waist
down to the knees, and is qualifying
his skin to the lubricity of the natives:
he is collecting ivory. Chaca says he
is going into the interior, for some
moons, to destroy anation-that when
he returns he will proceed to the tiirec-
ton Of Delagoa Bay, then he will return
and Stay all before him, till he meets
the "White King" pointing 10 the di-
rection of our Cape colony, as he OBJ
serves, he knows there is white king,
and there shall be but one white King
and one black King. He will, howev-
er, find powerful enemy in Gaika,
King of the Caffres.
The vessel Julia, which left PORT Ma
tai last December, with ivory, obtained
in barter for beads and Dungaree, with
eleven of the settlers returning to the
Cape, had not been heard of. Lieut.,
arewell having been without a com
munication for some Time, and having
made himself profcien, in the lam
guage, had requested, and Chaca had
allowed him, party, with one OF Lieut.
Farewell's men TO traverse an immense
country, crossing the territories OF
Chief Macasama and Samba, who are
under subsection to him, and passing
the country near to the banks OF Della
goa Bay, to intimate to such Eng
| lish vessels as might be there his ex'
act situation. The last accounts from
the remainder of Lieut.. Farewell:
party are of the o5th of May-all well
The country about Natal is beauti
full, without the necessity OF any arll
fetal aid to assist nature; nay the cas-
tern coast of Africa is almost Paradi
saical; the foliage rich and green, grass
thick, high, and rich, interspersee
with picturesque woods Astounding
with game; climate salubrlous; not ont
even of 1t. Farewell's original part!
was ever sick; and from the trial ant
| appearance Of the soil, proves admlra
bly, adapted for the reception OF all TIT
vegetable productions OF every part o
the habi,able globe. But the voraciou
tiger and wolf are innumerable, excee
ding all belief, attacking the Black
when alone, even in the open day; bu
what is remarkable, not an instance L
known of their attacking any white
man, even in his shooting excursions
for daily food. The country abound
also with hippotame.-The skin .of I
large size hippotamus was preserved
by 1t. Farewell, for the British Muse
um, when the tigers and wolves destroy
ed the feet. Isolated as he is from nj
native country, still that tie which eY
| cry loyal Briton feels, however dlstan
from his home, anticipated the gratiti
cation of giving some proof OF his pat
riotie feeling and enterprising genius