e will do thee good." It
was half-way between Durban Bay and the Tugela, on a hill-side in the
midst of the beautiful undulating ground and rich wood characteristic of
the country, and with a river in front. There he had raised a thatched
house for himself, and around it Zulu huts were continually multiplying.
The English carpenter and labourers whom he had brought out instructed
the Kaffirs in various kinds of labour, for which they were quite
willing; and as they wore decent garments, they were called the clothed
tribe. School was kept for the children in the week; for the grown-up
people on Sunday; and on every alternate morning some Scripture fact was
read and explained to them, the Captain still being obliged to act as
chaplain, until the arrival of Mr. Hewetson, whom the Church Missionary
Society were sending out.

Never had the generous toil of a devoted man seemed likely to meet with
better success, when a storm came from a most unexpected quarter. The
original colonists of the Cape of Good Hope were Dutch, and the whole
district was peopled with boers or farmers of that nation, stolid,
prosperous, and entirely uncontrolled by public opinion. They had
treated the unfortunate Hottentots as slaves, with all the cruelty of
stupidity, and imported Malays and Negroes to work in the same manner;
and they had shown, even when under their native state, a sort of grim
turbulence that made them very hard to deal with. When in 1834 the
British Government emancipated their slaves, and made cruelty penal and
labour necessarily remunerative, their discontent was immense, and a
great number sold their farms, and moved off into the interior to form an
independent settlement on the Orange River. A large number of them,
however, hearing of Dingarn's liberality to Captain Gardiner, were
determined to extort a similar grant to themselves by a display of power.
First came a letter, which Mr. Owen had to read and interpret to the
chief, and not long after a large deputation arrived, armed and mounted
on strong horses. Dingarn showed them a war-dance, and they in return
said they would show how the boers danced on horseback, and exhibited a
sham-fight, which did indeed alarm the savage, but, so far from daunting
him, only excited his treachery and fierceness. He gave a sort of
general answer, and the messengers retired. But from that time his
interest in Mr. Owen's teaching flagged; he wanted fire-arms instead of
religion, a