[Sidenote: 1830] [Sidenote: 1831] [Sidenote: 1832] [Sidenote: 1833] [Sidenote: 1834] After returning from this enterprise, the RIFLEMEN resumed their duties along the frontier; the depredations of the Kafirs were continued, and in the years 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833, and 1834, the patroles of the corps recaptured six thousand two hundred and ten head of cattle, and three hundred and thirty-four horses, which had been stolen from the colonists. Disputes frequently arose when the military were searching for lost property; the Kafirs denied the justice of some claims, asserted that seizures were made without proof of guilt, and without the tracks of the lost cattle being traced to the kraal where a demand for cattle in lieu of those lost was enforced. These disputes led to bloodshed, and were followed, in 1834, by a simultaneous attack of the Kafirs upon the colony at all points. On this occasion the CAPE CORPS had three provisional companies of mounted men attached to it, and having taken the field, it was almost constantly engaged in detached parties with the invaders. It penetrated into Kafirland, and was employed in the most active and arduous services under Lieut.-Colonel Somerset, and Major Burney, for many months. [Sidenote: 1835] [Sidenote: 1836] [Sidenote: 1837] The Kafir war was continued in 1835, and in May of that year the head-quarters of the corps were removed to Cypher Fontein; strong detachments being employed in the new province, and along the line of posts. The corps was also actively employed on the frontier during the subsequent years. [Sidenote: 1838] In February, 1838, some of the provisional recruits, stationed at Fort Peddie, laid the foundation of a serious mutiny, which was fortunately discovered by some old soldiers of the corps, and immediately reported to Captain Murray of the Seventy-second Highlanders, commanding the post, and the ringleaders were secured. A party of these men having marched to Fraser’s camp, on route to head-quarters, they fired upon their officers in the night, when Ensign Crowe, a provisional officer, was killed. This alarming circumstance appeared to endanger the character of the corps; but the investigation instituted by Major-General Sir George Napier, and the proceedings of the general court-martial on the trial of the ringleaders, clearly proved, that no blame was to be attached to the officers, nor to the established members of the corps: in August, his Excellency the Governor was pleased to recommend a permanent augmentation of three companies to the corps. [Sidenote: 1839] The augmentation of the corps was carried into effect in March, 1839, when the six companies of the CAPE MOUNTED RIFLEMEN were placed under the command of Colonel Henry Somerset: their head-quarters had been removed in the previous November, from Cypher Fontein to Graham’s Town, from which period they have been actively employed along the frontier, occupying seventeen posts. [Sidenote: 1840]