Simmonds's colonial magazine and foreign miscellany / edited by P.L. Simmonds

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N 054.2 COL
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London : Simmonds and Ward, [1844]-1849
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Vol. 12 No. 48 (December 1847)
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SIMMONDS’S COLONIAL MAGAZINE. THE KAFIRS AND THE CAPE COLONY. 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10
ON THE CULTIVATION OF THE SUGAR-CANE IN THE ISLAND OF TRINIDAD; ITS MERITS AND DEFECTS AS COMPARED WITH OTHER CANE-GROWING COUNTRIES, SO FAR AS THE SAME CAN BE ASCERTAINED, AND ALSO WITH THE ACTUAL STATE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE; ALSO THE MANUFACTURING OF MUSCOVADO SUGAR ON AN IMPROVED PRINCIPLE. 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27
THE DYING INDIAN GIRL TO HER COMPANIONS. 28
CEYLON AND ITS CHIEF TOWN. 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34
NORFOLK ISLAND. 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38
NATURAL PRODUCTIONS OF AUSTRALIA. 38 , 39 , 40 , 41
ARCTIC EXPEDITION OF THE HUDSON’S BAY COMPANY. 41 , 42 , 43 , 44 , 45 , 46 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 52
REMINISCENCES OF THE ISLAND OF CUBA; OR, THE SMITHS AT THE HAVANA. 53 , 54 , 55 , 56 , 57 , 58 , 59 , 60 , 61 , 62 , 63
A SCENE IN THE BUSH OF AUSTRALIA. 63 , 64 , 65
ON THE COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY OF NEW BRUNSWICK. 65 , 66 , 67 , 68 , 69 , 70 , 71 , 72 , 73 , 74 , 75 , 76 , 77
ON BUILDING HOUSES EN PISE, PARTICULARLY AS APPLICABLE TO THE AUSTRALIAN COLONIES, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, &c. 78 , 79
EPIGRAM 79
ON THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF INLAND STEAM NAVIGATION IN BENGAL. 80 , 81 , 82 , 83 , 84 , 85
WESTERN CANADA AS AN EMIGRATION FIELD. 86 , 87 , 88 , 89 , 90
REVIEWS. 91 , 92 , 93 , 94 , 95 , 96 , 97 , 98 , 99 , 100
COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE. INDIA. 101 , 102 , 103
CEYLON. 103
CHINA. 103 , 104
NEW SOUTH WALES. 104 , 105 , 106
VAN DIEMEN’S LAND. 106 , 107
NEW ZEALAND. 107 , 108
MAURITIUS. 108 , 109
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 109
WEST INDIES. 109 , 110 , 111
CANADA. 111 , 112
BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. 112

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SIMMONDS’S  

COLONIAL MAGAZINE.  

THE KAFIRS AND THE CAPE COLONY.  

At the present moment, the British possessions in South Africa—not-  

withstanding the boasted power of England—offer the strange spectacle  

of the lives and property of the Colonists placed at the mercy of armed  

bands and hordes of savages, who plunder and murder with comparative  

impunity. And yet the Government of this country have used their  

utmost exertions to remedy this state of things, and reduce the Kafir  

tribes to submission, to which end one of England’s most active officers  

has been lately despatched to the scene of depredation, and formidable  

military force concentrated on the spot; but it is more than probable  

that the talents of Sir Harry Smith will be exercised in vain, under the  

present system, in endeavouring permanently to secure the peace of the  

frontier.  

large disciplined force may be marched into the midst of the cloefs  

and fastnesses of Kaffraria Proper, and penetrate the dense scrubs in the  

vicinity of the Great Fish River; but as the Kafirs disperse before them,  

no considerable body will be fallen in with on which to inflict summary  

and exemplary vengeance—for, indeed, terror is the only mode of in-  

ducing this race to keep their engagements; and whilst the troops are  

so engaged, the wily savages, penetrating by their flanks, re-enter the  

Colony, carrying death into the home of the settler, and destruction  

among his flocks and herds. Yet there will be Sir Harry Smith—the  

hero of Aliwal—with his formidable array of bayonets and sabres, ready  

to exterminate the enemy. But unlike the Sikhs on the banks of the  

Sutlej, the savages of South Africa will avoid coming within arm’s length  

of the gallant warrior. They have no particular wish to try the effect  

of charge in line on British regiments their tactics are quite of  

different kind, and their interests lie in another system.  

With few scattered parties, for observation, in the front of British  

force, the Kafirs, when assailed in their own territory, despatch their  

families and their stock to the protection of allies far removed from the  

seat of war. Thus, unencumbered, they hang in small bodies on the  

flanks and rear of the invading force, cutting off stragglers, intercepting  

communications, and assailing convoys of stores and provisions.  

VOL. XII. NO. 48. DECEMBER, 1847.  

 

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