A Succinct Statement of the Kaffer's Case: Comprising Facts, Illustrative of the Causes of the Late War, and of the Influence of Christian Missions : in a Letter to T. Folwell Buxton, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Aborigines Committee, &c. &c. &cH. Adams, 1837 - 92 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
Aborigines Committee acquainted alluded altogether amongst the Kaffers appears attack blood-thirsty boundary British Buffalo River Bushmen Caffraria Cape Cape Colony Cape Town Capt certainly character chieftains children of nature christian circumstances civilization clans colonists colony commando course D'Urban declaring determined doubtless driven Dutch boors endeavouring evidence evinced fact feeling Fikani Fish River force forsooth frontier tribes fully Gaika gentleman governor Graham's Town head of cattle herds Hinza humanity huts induced justice Kaffer chiefs Kafferland kind Kongo kraals labour land late latter manual labour Matuwana measure miles military missionaries murdered nation natives neighbours never observe occasion officer parliamentary papers party patrols peace persons plundered Port Natal principle question regard rendered respecting sabbath savage sent soldiers Somerset spirit square miles station STEPHEN KAY Stockenstrom stolen Tambookie territory thing thousand tion traders treated troops Umtata Wesleyville whilst whole wish witness
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Página 18 - We wish for peace; we wish to rest in our huts; we wish to get milk for our children; our wives wish to till the land. But your troops cover the plains, and swarm in the thickets, where they cannot distinguish the man from the woman, and shoot all. § " 'You want us to submit to Gaika.
Página 17 - What those covetous men could not get from our fathers for old buttons, they took by force. Our fathers were -men; they loved their cattle; their wives and children lived upon milk; they fought for their property. They began to hate the colonists, who coveted their all, and aimed at their destruction. "Now, their kraals and our fathers' kraals were separate; the boors made commandoes on our fathers.
Página 18 - We lived in peace. Some of our bad people stole, perhaps; but the nation was quiet . . . the chiefs were quiet. Gaika stole . . . his chiefs stole ... his people stole. You sent him copper; you sent him beads; you sent him horses, on which he rode to steal more. To us you sent only commandos.
Página 5 - Plantations, as shall secure to the natives the due observance of justice and the protection of their rights, promote the spread of civilization among them, and lead them to the peaceful and voluntary reception of the Christian religion...
Página 5 - deeply impressed with the duty of acting upon the principles of justice and humanity in the intercourse and relations of this country with the native inhabitants of its colonial settlements, of affording them protection in the enjoyment of their civil rights, and of imparting to them that degree of civilization and that religion with which Providence has blessed this nation.
Página 64 - We have left undone the things we ought to have done ; and we have done the things we ought not to have done ; and there is no health in us.
Página 6 - And that the governors do by all ways seek firmly to oblige them. '• And that they do employ some persons to learn the languages of them. " And that they do not only carefully protect and defend them from adversaries, but that they more especially take care that none of our own subjects, nor any of their servants, do any way harm them. " And that, if any shall dare to offer any violence to them in their persons, goods, or possessions, the said governors do severely punish the said injuries, agreeably...
Página 15 - Slambie, but said he did not know where he was. However, after having been put in irons, and fastened to a wheel, with a riem (leathern thong) about his neck, he said that if the commando went with him before daylight, he would bring them upon 200 Caffers all asleep.
Página 17 - There we were circumcised; there we married wives ; and there our children were born. The white men hated us, but could not drive us away. When there was war, we plundered you. When there was peace, some of our bad people stole; but our chiefs forbade it. Your treacherous friend, Gaika, always had peace with you; yet, when his people stole, he shared in the plunder.
Página 18 - Have your patroles ever found cattle taken in time of peace, runaway slaves, or deserters, in the kraals of our chiefs? Have they ever gone into Gaika's country without finding such cattle, such slaves, such deserters, in Gaika's kraals? But he was your friend; and you wished to possess the Zureveld. You came at last like locusts. * We stood : we could do no more. You said, 'Go over the Fish River — that is all that we want.