to work to clean it; the women being all afraid to come near the weapon,
whilst the men were at first very cautious. Inyati now had faith in me,
and sat down beside me whilst I explained to him the use of the weapon
and how to pull the trigger. The powder was in a large flask, and was
quite dry, as were also the caps; and I found forty bullets in the bag,
so I had plenty of ammunition. I told Inyati that this gun would kill a
man at a distance more than ten times as far as he could throw an
assagy. He shook his head at this; but I asked him if I had not told
him truth about the glasses, and he would find I was true about this
gun.

I was very anxious to go against the Bushmen, for now that I had seen
the buffaloes killed, I was like a tiger that had tasted human blood,
and felt a longing for such exciting scenes as those I was likely to
experience, if I went against the Bushmen.

Inyati sat thinking for a long time without speaking, and at length
said, "We will go." He then walked to his hut, and shortly afterwards
sent messengers to call his people together, informing them that on the
morrow we would start for the Quathlamba Mountains.

About fifty men assembled at our kraal at daybreak on the following
morning, each man armed with five assagies, and a knob-kerrie, and
provided with a shield made of ox-hide. The shields might be useful
against a Bushman's arrows or against an assagy, but were useless
against a bullet. We each carried a bag of Indian corn, and several
boys who accompanied us also carried bags of corn. I afterwards found
out that if Inyati succeeded in driving off the Bushmen, he was to
receive a reward of cattle from the people he had assisted, and they
were to be bound to help him in any expedition that he undertook against
his enemies.

Our journey was over a beautiful country well watered with little
streams, and with plenty of fine trees. We found that a buck, called by
the Caffres "_Umseke_" (the riet-bok), was plentiful here, and we
surrounded and assagied two or three of these every day, and so had
plenty of meat during our journey. On the fifth day we reached the
nearest kraal of the tribe who were being plundered by the Bushmen.
These kraals were situated on an open plain near some wooded ravines,
the mountains being about five miles from them. The people received us
with shouts, and gave us _amasi_ and plenty of corn, and we then held a
council of war.

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