A Visit to the Indians on the Frontiers of Chili (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841. Excerpt: ... natives, would ere long have led to a similar result, there was so little reason to doubt, that on this very account I had deemed it absolutely necessary to make some arrangements for removing my people altogether from the neighbourhood of Port Natal; but from the moment that they implicated themselves in the war, it was evident that, even though peace had been the immediate consequence, and not one of them had fallen in the contest, as a man of honour, and above all, as a Christian, I could never again have received one of them (since they voluntarily regarded me as their chief) without subjecting myself to the very natural suspicion of having sanctioned, or what is little less criminal, connived at their wanton aggression; nor could I have reasonably hoped, under similar circumstances, to have restrained them on any future occasion from perpetrating other acts of lawless violence. Little indeed did we imagine, on embarking for Port Elizabeth, that we were so soon to take our final leave of a country, in the welfare of which we felt so deep an interest; but seeing no prospect of realizing a settlement where the natives could be secure, beyond the boundaries of the colony, and not possessing the means to effect any other more suitable within; and at the same time feeling assured that every opening that might hereafter occur, (either at Port Natal or in the country of the Zulus) for missionary exertion, would be promptly embraced by the missionaries of the Church Missionary Society, as also by their brethren from the American Board, we considered it to be our duty at once to remove from South Africa, and to seek out altogether a new sphere of employment among the heathen in some other quarter of the world. After much consideration, and having committed our...