imposture."66 When some Khoikhoi managed to make a living by felling
timber and taking it to market, Biddulph killed their business by quadrup-
ling the license fee on timber. Not surprisingly, during the 1850 - 53 fron-
tier war some of the Kat River people, including men like Andries Botha
who had led loyal Khoikhoi forces in the previous wars with distinction,
sided with the Xhosa. Thereafter, the government yielded to the clamor
among the British immigrants for the opening up of the fertile Kat River
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