OCR Rendition - approximate

Relations between Civilized and Savage Life. 335 occupied, annexing their cattle and younger captives, and slaughtering their warriors, whose bones were still visible in heaps when Harris visited the country. Harris found Moselekatze not far from where Pustenberg is now, fully established as an independent sovereign, having earned the surname of the "Attila of South Africa," the scourge of Bechuanas and of the advanced guard of the great emigration of Trek Boers, who have since occupied the country Moselekatze had passed through on his move from Zululand. He seems to have felt that between the advancing Trek Boers and the Bechuanas who had come under some sort of European influence through the missionaries at Kumman and in the Griqua country, he was likely to find more than his match, and moving northwards and eastwards he finally settled with his followers, as the " Matabele," in a rich tract of country which was very sparsely inhabited, on the highland which separates the basin of the Limpopo from that of the Zambesi. 2. A very different emigration was that of the people now known as Fingoes, who appear to be the remnants of various tribes which in Chaka's time occupied what is now the western part of Natal and Zululand. I have seen men now living who remembered their old homes, but it is difficult now to identify either the original locality or the exact tribes to which they belonged, and which seem to have been " eaten up " in the early wars of Chaka, probably even before his time. We first hear of the Fingoes as a miscellaneous collection of fugitives from Zulu conquest--broken men and fragments of clans moving slowly westward and southward, continually harassed by the unbroken tribes through whose country they passed, till they found a comparatively safe refuge as Helots of the Gaikas and Galaekas, and other tribes of the Great Amakosa family. From an early period of their wanderings they seem to have cherished hopes of protection by the Government of the Whitemen, whom they found moving ~in the opposite direction towards Natal, but it is less than thirty years since they were formally received as British subjects, and settled, some on the Fish River and its tributaries, and others in various parts of the country taken from Gaikas and Galaekas between the Kei and Umtata. They were at the time in a state of the utmost destitution, often obliged to content themselves with husks of maize and large leaves sown together to cover there, and reduced for want of regular food to support themselves on roots and wild berries. Since that time they have prospered wonderfully, and are now rivalling the Bechuana, as an industrious, improving race. If any one doubts the capacity of the Kaffir races for improvement and civilization, such doubts would I feel sure be removed