The colony of Natal; an official illustrated handbook and railway guide . described and treated as space will 171 SECTION XV. riKTERMARITZBUKG. ITS HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION. 7^JIRKK-0UARTERS of a century ago, the Kafir tribeof Abakwamacibise occupied the lands which are nowthe borough of Pietermaritzburg. Scattered by the warof extermination and conquest in which Chaka laid wastethe whole of Natal, the tribe has never become reorganised. Twenty years later, a party of emigrant Dutch, discontentedwith the l^ritish Government in the Cape Colony, enteredNatal under the leadership of Pieter
The colony of Natal; an official illustrated handbook and railway guide . described and treated as space will 171 SECTION XV. riKTERMARITZBUKG. ITS HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION. 7^JIRKK-0UARTERS of a century ago, the Kafir tribeof Abakwamacibise occupied the lands which are nowthe borough of Pietermaritzburg. Scattered by the warof extermination and conquest in which Chaka laid wastethe whole of Natal, the tribe has never become reorganised. Twenty years later, a party of emigrant Dutch, discontentedwith the l^ritish Government in the Cape Colony, enteredNatal under the leadership of Pieter Retief and Gert thrilling story of the trials and sufferings of this courageousband of pioneers, the bloody massacre of a large number ofthe part}- b\- Dingaan, and the name Weenen (weeping) givenby the Boers to the localit) where the massacre occurred, arewell-known features in the histor\- of the Colony, and will bedescribed in due course. The insecure and unsettled conditionof the country, and the apprehension of being attacked bythe Zulus, induced many of the emigrants to form townshipsand settle
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