The Wrongs of the Caffre Nation: A NarrativeJ. Duncan, 1837 - 333 pages |
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Aborigines amongst assegai attack Boors boundary British Bushmen Caffre chiefs Caffre nation Caffre tribes Caffreland Cape Town Captain Stockenstrom cattle Christian Chumie Colonel Smith Colonel Somerset Colonel Wade colonial government colonists commando council depredations despatch district driven endeavoured enemy English evidence Excellency feeling field-cornet Fingoes Fish River force frontier Gaika Galbraith Lowry Cole governor Graham's Town head of cattle honour horses hostilities Hottentots House of Commons huts inhabitants justice Kat River settlement Kei River Keishkamma killed king Hintza kraal labour land landdrost letter Lord Charles Somerset Lord Glenelg Lordship Macomo Majesty's Majesty's Government ment miles military missionaries murder narrative neighbours neutral territory never officers oppression ordinance party patrol peace person plunder possession prince punish Rufane Donkin savages says sent settlers shot Sir Benjamin D'Urban Slambi slaves stolen taken Tambookies tion took treaty troops Tyali Tzatzoe vagrant law Wesleyan wounded
Fréquemment cités
Page 3 - With 150 men, 10,000 or 11,000 head of black cattle might be obtained without danger of losing one man ; and many savages might be taken without resistance, in order to be sent as slaves to India, as they still always come to us unarmed.
Page 307 - Through a long series of years", this notorious despatch ran, "the. Kaffirs had an ample justification of the war into which they rushed; they had to resent, and endeavoured justly, though impotently, to avenge a series of encroachments...
Page 320 - ... the claim of sovereignty over the new province must be renounced. It rests upon a conquest resulting from a war in which, as far as I am at present enabled to judge, the original justice is on the side of the conquered, not of the victorious party.
Page 167 - As I and my people have been driven back over the Chumie without being informed why, I should be glad to know from the government what evil we have done ? I was only told that we must retire over the Chumie, but for what reason I was not informed. Both Stockenstrom and Somerset agreed that I and my people...
Page 3 - ... beasts from them ? There is opportunity enough for it, as they are not strong in number, and very timid ; and since not more than two or three men often graze a thousand cattle close to our cannon, who might be easily cut off, and as we perceive...
Page 18 - There ia scarcely an instance of cruelty said to have been committed against the slaves in the West India islands, that could not find a parallel from the Dutch farmers of the remote parts of the colony towards the Hottentots in their service.
Page 242 - And whereas doubts have arisen as to the competency of Hottentots and other free persons of colour to purchase or possess land in this colony : Be it therefore enacted and declared, that all grants, purchases, and transfers of land, or other property whatsoever heretofore made to or by any Hottentot, or other free person of colour, are and shall be, and the same are hereby declared to be, of full force and effect ; and that it is, and shall and may be, lawful for any Hottentot, or other free person...
Page 307 - In the conduct which was pursued towards the Kaffir nation by the colonists and the public authorities of the colony, through a long series of years...