ally people who do right;) he dictated the following, which I wrote from his mouth :-"When the army advances, I wish that a messenger may be sent on to Ferdana's to inform me of their approach, in order that I may go out and meet them with my people. We are of one house with the Abalungus. Your children are dying with the sun-we have no milk; and wish to have cattle, as we have not had any since Charka took them from us." After finishing this important epistle, Faku went to his hut and brought a basket of beer; of which according to the custom of the country, he first partook, and then handed to me. By several of the party some ludicrous remarks were made upon my horse, which was standing near; and one man observed -"How much better it would look if it had horns like an eland!" They have no horses among them; nor do they evince any desire to obtain them. The whole disposable force which Faku could bring into the field is, I understand, from twelve to fifteen thousand; though, on ordinary occasions, he seldom orders out more than seven or eight thousand.

Fakū is at all times a man of few words; but when speaking to-day on the subject of income (cattle,) at all times the most interesting to a native, he became quite animated. On my return to Bunting, I found that the cart had arrived, having had another upset on the day we left it. My servant, Umpondombeeni, was all admiration at the novelties of this station. He was greatly amused at the pigs, having only once seen one before; but the glass in the window-sashes excited his greatest surprise, and it was some time before he could convince himself that there was any thing to prevent his hand from passing through.

Tuesday, 4th.-Took leave of Mr. and Mrs. Tainton, who kindly supplied me with provisions for the way. Started at about ten, with three men from the station carrying my baggage-my interpreter and myself being mounted upon two miserable, sore-backed horses, which had been purchased by Mr. Fynn for government use. We were soon out of the inhabited part of Faku's territory; but it is still as mountainous, and at this season was completely dried up, with scarcely a tree to be seen for miles. In the neighborhood of Umtagaichi and Umdoombi rivers, which crossed our route, we passed the sites of several villages formerly belonging to Umyăki-he was driven hence by Faku about eighteen months ago, since which period he has been living with his whole tribe much nearer to the coast. The cause of his expulsion was in revenge for an attempt to bewitch, as it is termed, the cattle of Faku. Umyǎki had despatched two men to Faku, for the alleged purpose of procuring beads, but they were at the same time accompanied by an Egeerha, or bewitcher, who brought away some of the manure from the cattle-fold at the Great Place, with an intention on his reaching home to procure by this means the infliction of some fatal disease upon the cattle of Fakü. From the chief downward, it is quite distressing to observe how all succumb to this subtle artifice of the powers of darkness, which has not only reduced the whole nation to a species of mental bondage, but has probably occasioned more blood to flow than any of the numerous feuds that have been known to exist.

My watch having within these few days become unserviceable, I am now obliged to calculate in the native manner, by observing the position of the sun, and by this reckoning I consider that we reached the Umtata about a quarter-past six. The bed of this river is strewed with detached slabs of rock; and as it was nearly dusk when we crossed, my horse, losing his footing, fell, and ejected me up to my knees in the stream. We had now entered the Amatembu country, and were not long in discovering, at a distance, some straggling houses; but it was almost too dark to distinguish them among the bushes. At this time we were threading a low jungle by a winding path, directed only by one lad, who had out-walked the other guides, when suddenly we were surrounded by several men, approaching from different directions, and all well armed with assegais. The guide, alarmed at their appearance, ran off and concealed himself behind one of the bushes; while, conscious of the danger, I immediately reined up, in order to answer their inquiries as to who we were-where we came from-where we were going-where Tpai was-what Fakû was about-and many other similar questions. Being somewhat satisfied with my replies, they acknowledged that they had taken us for spies. On being told that I was a teacher, one of them observed that I should tell the people to be still, and not to be always making war. We were then allowed to proceed without further detention; but there is not the slightest doubt that they would have commenced throwing their assegais had not I pulled up at the moment they accosted us. We soon reached the spot where a chief named Cosiana formerly lived; but being too dark to search for his new abode on the other side of the mountain, and, moreover, hearing that he was absent, we returned to a Fingo hut, which we had passed near the road-a wretched, dirty hovel, but where we were hospitably received. It was here we first heard the fate of the two men who had been sent from Bunting with letters for the camp, about a month ago. By an account brought through a Fingo, they are said to have been murdered by a party of Chungi's people on their way, and not far from the ford on the Kei river.

Wednesday, 5th.-Wishing to travel light, in order to reach Ferdana's Great Place in good time this evening, I left the greater part of the baggage in charge of the guides, directing them to proceed with it to a chief named Kăbi, about half the distance, and remain there until they heard from me.

We proceeded about half-past seven, the road passing over elevated downs; the country less broken; in many parts rocky, and generally destitute of trees. Stopped about eleven, and procured a little amas, but not until all their questions had been satisfied. So suspicious are these people, probably from habit, being continually embroiled with their neighbors, that in no instance could we obtain the commonest information respecting the road, until the usual string of questions had been duly put and replied to. The women evinced so much alarm at our appearance, that, on perceiving us at a distance, they would hasten along in another direction; and if, as it sometimes happened, we surprised them, while

procuring water from the streams, they would in-
stantly leave their calabashes and bowls, and make
hastily off. Passed through several very large
flights of locusts, which appeared to be commit-
ting great ravages among the little grass that re-
mained. Crossed the Bashee, another very rocky
river, at about four; and in half an hour more
reached Ferdana's village—a collection of miser-
able looking huts (twelve in number,) dotted about
without any appearance of regularity. Neither
these, nor the Amaponda towns, have any exterior
fences; the cattle-folds are small, and not always
in the centre; and the houses, both within and
without, are sadly defective in point of cleanliness.
They have, however, the advantage of an interior
skreen about the door-way; which prevents the
wind from driving the smoke about, and contri-
butes to make them warm, though at the expense
of light. Here, again, we were suspected. Fer-
dana, I was told, was on a hunting expedition, in
which he had taken all his horses for the pursuit
of elands. The sun had long set behind the hills
before the usual catechising had ended; and,
seated upon my saddle in front of Ferdana's hut,
I patiently awaited its termination. Not a house
was offered, nor food of any kind given. At first
they proposed that I should go on to the mission-
ary station, not far distant; and afterwards to
another village. Suspecting that they were (as
is not unfrequently the case with the people) de-
ceiving me as to the movements of their.chief, I
told them that I had come to see Ferdana; and
that as this was his place, it was not my intention
to go further; adding, that hitherto I had always
understood they were hospitable to strangers.
After waiting some little time longer, a woman of
the party observed, that the Incosi-case ought to It was exceedingly painful to me to be thus
be spoken to about furnishing a hut. In our situ- under the necessity of breaking open the mission-
ation a hint of this kind was not to be lost: my house; but I felt convinced that, had its inmates
interpreter accordingly went on this errand; and been here, they would gladly have afforded me
we were shortly after received into a hut belong- every comfort in their power. My principal re-
ing to the widow of the late chief Gubinu, or gret is to find it untenanted; and the work of
Vosani, as he is frequently called. Baadi (the Christian instruction suspended. Our neighbors
Incosi-case) was his mother; and it is her grand- are by no means ceremonious: while quietly
son, still a minor under the guardianship of Fer-writing this morning, a man introduced himself at
dana, who will eventually succeed to the govern-
ment. The hut in which we were now lodged
was sufficiently capacious, but filthy in the ex-
treme and by the occasional flickering of the
fire, when the smoke had sufficiently dispersed, I
perceived the good woman who had long been
preparing a mess of tripe, first stirring it about
with her hand, and then portioning it out in the
same unceremonious manner to the company, in-
cluding a tribe of hungry children, with two or
three men who dropped in at this critical time,
and employed their assegais to divide the toughest
parts. Notwithstanding my various companions,
I was sufficiently tired to sleep comfortably upon
a floor, which, for the peculiar unevenness of its
surface, might have served for a model of the ma-
ritime Alps.

dogs! Although messengers have been sent to
apprise Ferdana of my arrival, it is quite uncer-
tain where he may be found; and as I have no
great inclination to renew my acquaintance with
the calves, I considered it desirable, if possible,
to find an asylum in some of the missionary build-
ings at Clarkebury, about two miles and a half
distant. The horses were accordingly saddled,
and we soon reached the mission-house, which
had been abandoned about three months. It had,
indeed, a most desolate appearance: with the ex-
ception of one girl, who had formerly attended on
Mrs. Davis, all the natives belonging to the sta-
tion had left with the missionary family. A few
of the neighboring huts, however, were occupied
by some people sent by Ferdana to take charge
of the property. This trust they had faithfully
performed: thorn-bushes were placed under all
the windows to prevent their being opened, and
we found every thing perfectly secure. Circum-
stanced as I was, there was no alternative but to
draw the nail which secured a window from with-
out, and enter by that means; no person having
been entrusted with any of the keys, which I
conclude were taken away. Here, to my great
relief, two sacks of Kafir corn were found; several
utensils for cooking; and a few chickens. Had
it been otherwise we should have fared but poorly,
milk was not to be procured among the natives;
and their corn, from having been kept under-
ground, had now acquired so unpleasant a flavor,
that the cravings of hunger alone would have in-
duced me to eat it: no other could be procured
from them at this season of the year, even had
I the means of purchasing, which was not the
case.

the window,-which, by the by, was the only entrance at that time, with an assegai in his hand. Until the return of my interpreter, I thought it better to take no notice of him; when he introduced himself as chief of the party placed in charge of the mission premises. He had come, he said, to hear the news, having been absent when I arrived; and was only just returned from a nightly excursion, in order if possible to trace the footprints of enemies up the river. Tpai's people on one side, and the Amamăs (a revolted tribe of Amatembu) on the other, who are perpetually stealing their cattle, keep them in a constant state of alarm; insomuch that all the herds are withdrawn to a considerable distance from the frontier; and the miserable inhabitants of those districts are never secure for a day. On the decline Thursday, 6th.—So dim was the fire, and so of the moon (now full,) it is said that Tpai medidense the smoke, that it was not until day-light tates another attack, which keeps them on the had thoroughly penetrated the crevices of our alert. That Ferdana should absent himself, under abode, that I was fully aware of the different or- such circumstances, appears to me incomprehenders of mammalia that it contained. Besides our-sible, unless his hunting excursion should prove selves, the two women and five children, there but another name for a marauding expedition, were no less than nine calves, and one or two which is far more probable, particularly as he was

What rapture then to join that band,

Through fires of tribulation brought! For ever round the throne to stand,

Adoring Him our ransom bought!

No natives could be collected in the morning, but in the afternoon a few attended the Kafir service in the mission-house.

the expectation of having it ground and boiled on the road, was now, for want of this necessary preparation, given to the jaded horses; one of whom was so thoroughly knocked up, that in order to urge him on at all it became necessary to secure the bridle to my saddle and literally take it in tow, my interpreter occasionally dismounting and flogging it on. The locusts were so numerous in Monday, 10th.-In this weak and suspicious some parts of our journey this day, that the ground country, I thought it prudent to advise the good could scarcely be seen, and numbers were crushpeople at the Gumkula of my intended return, and ed under the horses' feet. They are smaller than accordingly rode round by their huts, but either those generally seen in the Zoolu country, and by design or otherwise the Incosi-case was not have not the pink color on the wing. Delayed by forthcoming. After a little demur, Cheecha, an our sorry beasts, we did not reach Bunting till old man (reported to be a councillor) came up, and after sunset; and although much disappointed at to him I delivered a message to Ferdana, with a the necessity of retracing my steps, I felt thankful request that on his return he would either furnish at having again reached such comfortable quarters, me with a mounted guide to the Kei, or forward especially as we had tasted nothing since eight a letter to the English camp on the other side. o'clock on the previous morning, when we had The message he said should be delivered; but he breakfasted on Kafir-corn gruel. It was a proviwas quite sure that Ferdana would do neither the dential circumstance that I did not partake of the one nor the other, as he was daily expecting an Kafir-corn in its raw state, as I had more than attack from the people of Chungi; the Amamãias, once intended in the course of this day's ride; who are in league with them, captured two herds having since learned that in all probability it would of cattle but the day before. They appear never have been fatal, as it has the property of swelling, to have forgiven the loss of some cattle taken from and even when not sufficiently boiled, is very prethem by the Machallas (the Amatembu tribe among judicial: many instances, I am told, have occurred whom we now are,) as the escort were conveying when natives, exhausted by hunger on their warthe missionaries from Clarkebury across their ter- like expeditions, have died in a few hours after eatritory, about three months since; and it is no doubting a quantity of it improperly cooked. Found the in order to avenge this loss that they are now combining against them.

As an evidence of the insincerity of these people, no less than seventeen or eighteen horses were observed near Ferdana's cattle-place, on the banks of the Bashee, as we passed; which at once confirmed my opinion that the whole of his absence was a deceit. On reaching Kabi's to my great disappointment, I found that the guides had returned home the day before. It had been my endeavor while at Clarkebury, to communicate with them, being desirous that they should join me there; but notwithstanding all my efforts, with the promise of beads, no person could be induced to undertake this errand. To procure a guide on the route was out of the question; for so uncivil were they at every village we passed, that nothing, not even a drop of milk could be procured. On leaving the inhabited district, I had no other resource than to direct my course by the sun. After a tedious ride, partly in the dark, we reached the Umtata, and rested on the bank for the night; but, although the cold was severe, I was unwilling to indulge in a fire, lest it might attract notice and bring down an armed party to disturb our repose. For some time I endeavored to sleep; but at length, almost benumbed, determined at all risks to kindle a blaze. Observing a deep fissure where the flame might be sufficiently concealed, we repaired thither; but, although a tolerable fire was kept up throughout the remainder of the night, it was but little sleep that I could obtain, the air being keen and the ground covered with frost.

Tuesday, 11th.-Finding that I had made the river at a point considerably higher than the usual ford, I this morning shaped a most easterly course; the whole country to the Umgazi being a complete wilderness without an inhabitant. A small bundle of Kafir-corn brought from Clarkebury, with

station in much concern respecting the melancholy tidings brought by the guides who arrived last night. Both of the messengers who had been killed on their way to the camp were much respected; and one of them, David, is said to have been under deep religious impressions. Their wives and families were in great grief. Previous to starting, David had imprudently borrowed the panther-skin ingoobo (cloak) which had been given to the last messenger on his reaching the British head-quarters: and it is said that this was recognised by a party of Amakosa as having formerly belonged to one of their chiefs, killed by the English, and led to their discovery and consequent murder. My own guides, it appeared, had not been very handsomely treated; their lives had been more than once threatened while remaining at Kabi's village; and as they had heard nothing from me for three days, they said they concluded I had proceeded to the Kei, and were glad to leave a country where they had all along been taken for spies.

Saturday, 15th.-With the hope of obtaining some information respecting a route which I might be necessitated to take across the Quathlamba mountains, towards the north-eastern frontier of the colony, I crossed the Umzimvoobo on Thursday, to Mr. Fynn's village, about twenty-six miles distant from hence, and returned last night. The remains of that immense and extirpating horde, led on by the celebrated Matuana;-and who, from their unsparing ferocity, have obtained the name of Fitcani (destroyers) are still to be found in almost every district of this part of the continent

their battle-ground having extended quite across to the very embouchure of the Orange river. It was from some of these people that I was anxious to obtain an account of the country to the westward, and a promise of assistance, should I attempt the

"Do this in remembrance of me.”—(Luke xxii. 19.) did not fall in with them, as they are reported to