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Then she dismissed him, bidding him to keep a better watch in future. Scarcely had he gone when another man appeared saying that he had met a Kaffir from beyond the mountains, who told him that a party of white men with women and children had crossed the Quathlamba range by what is now known as Bezuidenhout's Pass, and were camped near the Tugela River.
When the veldtcornet at last arrived with his twenty men, he certainly proved himself very useful in carrying away the booty! This veldtcornet was shortly afterwards "Stellenbosched." I then nominated in his place Willem Pretorius as veldtcornet. We left the river that afternoon behind us, and marched south to Mr. Bezuidenhout's farm.
The sheriff seized Bezuidenhout's waggon in execution of taxes, and put it up to sale at Potchefstroom. But the volk kicked the auctioneer off the waggon and hunted him round the town; and now Governor Lanyon is sending Raaf down with power to swear in special constables and enforce the law at Potchefstroom. He might as well try to stop a river by throwing stones.
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