Note 103 — IV. Chronicles of Two Leaders of the Great Emigration, Louis Triegard and Pieter Uys.

Sir Benjamin D’Urban provisionally extended the boundary of the colony to the Kraai river, and on the 6th of November 1835 Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Somerset, who visited the north-eastern districts as an agent of the governor, issued a notice that Stephanus Petrus Erasmus was to be fieldcornet of the newly annexed ward. In September of this year one hundred and sixty families were reported to be living on the Stormberg spruit and the Kraai river. See the D’Urban papers in the South African Public Library. A full account of the massacres and robberies by the Matabele will be found in my History of South Africa.