that the trekboers required. For the right to continue to liveon the land and
to pasture a few livestock of their own,"they herded the invaders' cattle and
sheep, they drove their ox wagons, and they did their domestic chores.
Trekboers also made use of people from the indigenous hunting and gather-
ing communities. Commandos
exterminated adult hunter-gatherers
but
made a point of capturing children, and before they disbanded they dis-
tributed the children as well as the cattle booty among themselves.
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