"On the 30th of September, a meeting took place between the Gaika tribes and the Deputy of the British Government, Lieutenant-Colonel Johnstone, 27th Regiment, at the request of the Gaikas. Mr Calderwood, missionary, was present, besides several other persons. The scene of the assemblage was `the bush.' "The Governor's terms, offered and interpreted by Mr Calderwood, were these:--Firstly. That the tribes should lay down their arms. Secondly. That they should restore the colonial cattle. Thirdly, That the country as far as the Kei should be placed under British rule--those Kaffirs who remain on this side submitting to such regulations as may be made for their future government. "Macomo, Sandilla's uncle, appeared much dejected. He is the only one of the Gaika chiefs who may be said to be really anxious for peace. Some time since, he sent his eldest son an order not to fight. The dutiful son replied, that Macomo was a `drunken coward, and only wished for peace for the sake of the canteen.' At the meeting the others expressed themselves pretty much as they had previously done. They stated that they had never heard of a conquered people being called upon to give up their arms: that they had bought them openly from British traders [Notre]; that, as for the cattle, most of them were dead; that they were tired of the war, and would not fight any more--they were `under our feet;' that our convoys might move through the countries unmolested; that we might slay the thieves now plundering the Colony-- they were a banditti under no control; and that, `if we were resolved to continue the war, we must slay them at the doors of their huts.'!!! Cunning savages! they know that British troops will never kill unresisting men, much less the miserable tillers of the ground, the poor women of Kaffirland, and they imagine we are yet to be imposed upon. "As Mr Calderwood approached Beaufort, on his way to this peaceful meeting, an assegai passed across him, thrown by the hand of some savage assassin. Eight Kaffirs sprang out of a bush close by, and Mr Calderwood and the Cape Corps orderly following him, galloped onwards into the town, scarcely half a mile distant. Probably, two days after this occurrence, these very men were among those `in the bush,' who said, `their hearts were heavy; the teacher's word was no longer good; they were under our feet,' etc, etc! or of that party which, on encountering a detachment of the 91st, between Block Drift and Fort Cox, threw themselves on the ground, and suffered the troops to pass on.