officers as the Governor shall appoint, on behalf of His Majesty, one fat ox, in the course of the first month of every year; in failure of which condition, he will forfeit his said lands, unless they be granted anew by the Governor, in the name of His Majesty.

VIII. Ministers of the Gospel, schoolmasters, and, where necessary English magistrates or residents, will be duly appointed within the above locations. And it is hereby concluded and agreed on, by the said chiefs and representatives, that they and the heads of families shall act as magistrates of the colony, each in his location, if required to do so by the Governor, and under such titles, and to obey such instructions, as shall by him be determined,-and that they shall not harbour, nor suffer to be harboured, within their respective locations, any person or persons, whether of their own tribe or of others, whether English, Hottentots, Boers, or of any other nation, suspected, or known to have been guilty of any crime or offence against the colony, but shall immediately secure and deliver up any such person or persons to the nearest colonial authorities.

IX. And it is hereby further concluded and agreed on by the aforesaid chiefs, and they alike promise and engage, that they shall without delay communicate to the colonial authorities, any overtures made, or which may hereafter at any time be made, to them, from any person or persons, whether within or without the colony, tending to its prejudice or danger, and shall equally communicate, in like manner, any intelligence which may at any time come to their knowledge, of danger threatening the colony, from whatever quarter.

X. And it is hereby further concluded and agreed on by the aforesaid chiefs, that they and the heads of families in their respective locations, shall, all and each of them, prevent by every means within their power, inroads into the colony, of robbers, to steal cattle or other property; and shall, moreover, in the case of any cattle or property so stolen, being brought into their respective locations, sequre and deliver it to the nearest colonial authority; well understood, that the Governor will justly hold that chief responsible for restoring colonial cattle or other property, into whose location it shall have been traced.

XI. And whereas the Governor has been pleased to locate the great widow of Dushani-Noniibe, and Siwani, the son of that chief, together with Umgahie, on the right bank of the Buffalo, and to appoint adequate lands for their residence there;-the aforesaid chiefs Umhala, Tsyolo, and Gazelli, hereby promise and engage to abstain from all violence and animosity towards the said Noniibe, Siwani, and Umgahie, and from molesting them in any degree whatever.

XII. The Governor having appointed a commission, consisting of The Honcurable Colonel Smith, C.B., Chief Commissioner;

Lieutenant-Colone! Peddie, K.H., 72nd Regiment; the Rev. W. B. Boyce, of the Wesleyan Mission; Captain Rawstorne, Provisional Companies, 75th Regiment; Richard Southey, Esq.; and James Kidd, Esq., for the location, establishment, and regulation of the aforesaid chiefs, tribes, and families,-the said commissioners (or a majority of them) are hereby duly authorized, so soon as they shall be reasonably satisfied that the 3rd and 4th conditions of this Treaty have been fairly complied with, to conclude and ratify it finally by their signatures, and to receive and record by endorsement upon this document, the accession and agreement of the aforesaid chiefs thereto; and thereafter to locate and place each in possession of his allotted location, and within his appropriate boundary accordingly.

XIII. When all the above arrangements shall have been duly carried into effect, the Governor will appoint an agent for the Government, to reside among, or near to, the locations; with whom the chiefs will communicate whenever they may desire it, for the information of the Governor, of whose communications to them he will also be the accredited organ.

XIV. For the present, and until the Governor may judge it safe and beneficial, as well for the old colonists as for these His Majesty's new subjects, hereby admitted under the protection of His Majesty's Government-none of these last, whether of the family of T'Slambie, its connexions or dependents, as aforesaid, can be allowed to cross the old colonial border of the colony, from the mouth of the Keiskammą, up that river and the Chumie, and along the Katberg to the Winterberg, or by any other way to enter the old colonial border, without a pass, signed by one of the above Commissioners, or by the agent, when he shall have been appointed; and even in that case, all persons so passing the boundary must be unarmed. A departure from this condition will expose the individuals infringing it to be shot; and its observance is therefore very strictly and earnestly enjoined.

Given under my hand and seal, at Fort Willshire, this 17th day of September, 1835.

B. D'URBAN, Governor and Commander-in-Chief

of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope.

6.—AGREEMENT with the King of Abaqua Zooloo or Qua Machoban.-Signed at Cape Town, March 3, 1836.

Articles of Agreement between the Governor of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, on the one part, and Umsiligas (by his representative and Chief Councillor Um 'Nombate, specially appointed for the purpose of treating), on the other part.

ART I. The king of the Abaqua Zooloo or Qua Machoban, Umsiligas, engages to be a faithful friend and ally of the colony.

II. He engages to preserve order in his territory and to abstain from war unless forced thereto in self-defence.

III. He engages to protect all white men who may visit his country, and to defend and treat in a friendly manner, all missionaries or other persons who may, with his consent, settle and reside in his territory, so long as they act in accordance with justice.

IV. He engages to defend and assist all travellers or traders who may reach his country, either with the object of extending knowledge or otherwise benefiting mankind.

V. He engages not to interfere with the remnants of tribes resident in the vicinity of his country, unless in self-defence, and promises to permit them to enjoy, undisturbed, the advantages of religious instructors, should any such be disposed to settle amongst them.

6. And, generally, he engages to cultivate and encourage peace, and apprise the Colonial Government of any intended or actual hostile movements in the interior, and to act in concert with the said Government, in subduing whatever may be calculated to disturb the general peace, or retard the civilization and prosperity of the native tribes of South Africa.

In consequence of the above engagement, the Governor, upon his part, engages:

1. That he will regard Umsiligas and his subjects as friends, and will receive any of them as such when they visit the colony.

2. That he will grant, in the first instance, as presents for Umsiligas, a variety of articles suitable to his present condition, and will continue supplies of the kind from time to time, so long as the terms agreed upon shall be strictly observed.

And in order to facilitate intercourse hereafter, between Umsiligas and the colony, the Governor will duly consider the request made for an individual of the colony to be resident with the Abaqua Zooloo or Qua Machoban, and endeavour to obtain a missionary for that purpose who will be most calculated, under circumstances, to forward the views of the contracting parties.

This done at the Government House in Cape Town this 3rd day of March, in the year of our Lord 1836.

(L.S.) UM 'NOMBATE,

(L.S.) B. D'URBAN, Governor. his mark.

Signed and sealed in our presence:

ANDREW SMITH, M.D. JAS. EDW. ALEXANDER, A.D.C.

7.-TREATY with the Kafir Chiefs of the Tribe of T'Slambie.— Signed at King William's Town, December 5, 1836.

Treaty entered into between Andries Stockenstrom, Esq., LieutenantGovernor of the Eastern Division of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, on the part of His Britannic Majesty, and the Kafir Chiefs of the tribe of T Slambie, viz.: Siwane (represented by his mother Nonibe), Umhala, Umgai, and Gazella, for themselves and the said tribe: when, after several preliminary discussions on various occasions, and the fullest explanations, by means of the official interpreter Mr. Theophilus Shepstone, assisted by interpreters of the said Chiefs' own choosing, the following Articles of Convention were fully agreed upon, in the presence of Hougham Hudson, Esq., Agent-General, and Charles Lennox Stretch, Esq., John Mitford Bowker and Richard Southey, Esqrs., resident agents for the Kafir tribes,-as also several Kafir Chiefs and Councillors;-subject, nevertheless, to the Ratification by or on behalf of his said Majesty.

ART. I. There shall be peace and amity for ever between His said Britannic Majesty, his subjects, particularly those of the said colony, and the Kafir nation; and both parties shall honestly and faithfully use their utmost endeavours to prevent a rupture of the same, to remove every cause for disagreement which may occur, and scrupulously to abide by the engagements contained in this Treaty.

II. The boundary between the said colony and the territory restored to the Kafirs by proclamation of this day, is, and shall be understood to be, that which was agreed upon between the then Governor, Lord Charles Somerset, and the Kafir chief Gaika, in the year, 1819, viz.: the Keiskamma River, from its mouth up to its junction with the Chumie River; thence the latter river up to where it touches a ridge of high land which is connected with the Kat Berg, and which separates the waters which fall into the Chumie from those which fall into the Kat River; thence the said ridge to its junction with the Kat Berg; thence the Kat Berg itself, and the high ground and ridges which connect it with the Luheri or Gaika's Peak, and the great chain of the Winterberg, up to the Winterberg's highest point; thus including within the colony all the branches of the Kat and Gonappe Rivers, up to their extreme sources, and including in Kaffraria all the branches of the Chumie. And in order to prevent all doubt or dispute for the future, as to the said ridge from the Kat Berg to the Chumie, the said Contracting Parties have, on the 28th and 29th ultimo, gone over the ground together, and in the presence of Lieutenant Williams, of the Royal Engineers, who will carefully mark the said boundary on the map, as also in the presence of the resident agent Stretch, and several Kafir chiefs, who will cause conspicuous beacons to be erected on the spot where the said ridge touches the Chumie; as also, where the western boundary of the

ceded territory referred to in the VIIIth Article of this Treaty joins the said ridge; and in more minutely defining the said line, the highest part of the said ridge shall be taken from which the waters take their natural course, either into the Chumie above said firstmentioned beacon, or into the Kat River.

III. The said contracting chiefs do, for themselves, their tribe, and their heirs and successors, acknowledge the right of full sovereignty of his said Britannic Majesty over the territory to the west of the said line, renouncing for ever all claim which they, the said chiefs, or tribe, may ever have had, or supposed to have had, to the same, or any part thereof.

IV. The said contracting chiefs therefore accept, as a special mark of His said Majesty's grace and favour, any part of the territory between the Keiskamma and the Kat River, as a loan, to be by them, or their tribe, or any part thereof, held upon such terms, and to such extent, as shall be laid dowp by, or on the part of, His said Majesty, which terms shall be incorporated in this Treaty; they, the said chiefs, promising at no period ever to lay claim to the possession or occupation of any other part of the territory, known by the name of the ceded territory, except such part as shall be allotted to them in the manner herein above stated.

V. The said Lieutenant-Governor doth hereby, in the name of His said Majesty, grant unto the said chiefs, their tribe, that part of the said territory, called the ceded territory, to be specified at the foot of this Treaty, according to a map, to be formed by a competent officer, and to be hereunto annexed, which territory shall be held by the said chiefs and tribe, their heirs and successors, in perpetuity, never to be reclaimed by, or on behalf of His said Majesty, except in case of hostility committed, or a war provoked by the said chiefs, or tribe, or in case of a breach of this Treaty, or any part thereof, and for which breach satisfaction or redress shall not be otherwise given or obtained.

VI. The said contracting chiefs and their tribe shall, in the said territory so granted unto them, enjoy the full and entire right to adopt, or adhere to, the Kafir laws, or any other law, which they may see fit to substitute, as also to expel or exclude from the same any person whom they do not think proper to admit or retain; and with the exception of the contingencies of hostility, war, or breach of these Treaties, specified in the foregoing Article V, the right of His said Majesty to the dominion over the said territory shall in no way be exercised therein, any more than in any part of Kaffraria itself; subject however, to the restrictions and conditions specified in the following Article.

VII. His Majesty reserves his right of stationing troops and build ing forts in the said territory, and availing himself, for that purpose of all the facilities and materials within the same, as also to appro