ry across the Kei River. The Gcaleka chief Hintsa, who was generally
recognized to be the senior of all the Xhosa chiefs, was tricked into cap-
tivity and shot dead when he tried to escape; and many Mfengu deserted
their patrons and joined the colonial forces. In September 1835, the surviv-
ing chiefs capitulated."
Egged on by inflammatory settler pressures for the ejection of the
Xhosa, the British governor then announced peace terms to assembled
Xhosa chiefs. All the land between the Keiskamma and the Keiwas to be
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