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He was walking a considerable distance in advance of them when he came to a dense thicket which was black as midnight, and so still that the falling of a leaf might have been heard. Tom Brown surveyed the thicket quietly for a few seconds, and observing the marks of some large animal on the ground, he beckoned to the Caffre who carried his spare double-barrelled gun.
The people were becoming dissatisfied with the government of the country, particularly with its financial measures. A deficiency of two million pounds appeared, and additional taxation would be necessary owing to the Caffre War. It was therefore proposed to continue the income tax for five years and increase it slightly.
His progress thus proclaimed as by mounted kings-at-arms, and escorted as by a Caffre guard of honor, Captain Delano, assuming a good-humored, off-handed air, continued to advance; now and then saying a blithe word to the negroes, and his eye curiously surveying the white faces, here and there sparsely mixed in with the blacks, like stray white pawns venturously involved in the ranks of the chess-men opposed.
Now I should like to cross the mountains, and get into the Bechuana and Bushman country, where game is as plentiful as I believe water is scarce; we can return that way, if you please, almost as well as we can through the Caffre country what say you, Swinton?" "Well, I am of your opinion.
"I can imagine it, my dear Wilmot," said Swinton; "it is but natural, for he is your kinsman by all report, and certainly, although a Caffre in his habits and manners, his countenance and features are strikingly European." "That I have observed myself, and it has fully convinced me of the truth of the statement. I am most anxious to examine him we must call the interpreter."
The origin of the general term Caffre, which means Infidel, and no more, is not known, any more than is that of the term Hottentot." "A proof of what we found out at school," observed the Major, "that nicknames, as they are termed, stick longer than real ones."
This was exacted, in order that there might be a neutral ground to separate the Caffres and the Dutch boors, and put an end to further robberies on either side. The strangest part of the story is, that this territory was not taken away from the Caffre chiefs, against whom we had made war, but from Gaika, our ally, to support whom we had entered into the war."
Their reason for making this arrangement was, that throughout the whole of the Caffre country, with the exception of lions and elephants in the forest, and hippopotami in the rivers, there was little or no game to be found, the Caffres having almost wholly destroyed it.
Indian hostilities resumed Expedition of Davis, Caffre and McClure Murder of Elliot Marshall's river adventure Attack on Captain Ward's boat Affair near Scaggs' Creek Growth of Kentucky Population Trade General Logan calls a meeting at Danville Danger of the country from Indian hostilities, and necessity of defense considered Convention called Separation from Virginia proposed Other conventions-Virginia consents Kentucky admitted as an independent State of the Union Indian hostilities Expedition and death of Colonel Christian Attack on Higgins' Fort Expedition of General Clark Its utter failure Expedition of General Logan Surprises and destroys a Shawanese town Success of Captain Hardin Defeat of Hargrove Affairs in Bourbon County Exploits of Simon Kenton Affairs at the Elkhorn settlements Treaty Harman's expedition Final pacification of the Indians after Wayne's victory.
In 1847 one of these formidable creatures frequented for some months the Rangbodde Pass on the great mountain road leading to the sanatarium, at Neuera-ellia; and amongst other excesses, killed a Caffre belonging to the corps of Caffre pioneers, by seizing him with its trunk and beating him to death against the bank.
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