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 1S78] Annexation of Galekaland. 139 The people of Mapasa were also located there. Mr. F. N. Streatfeild, who had performed good service as a commandant of Fingos during the rebellion, was appointed magistrate of the district, and assumed duty on the 2nd of January 1879. His powers de jure and de facto were the same as those of Mr. Shaw. Some areas of land in the districts of Kentani and Willowvale were reserved for occupation by Europeans, but before they could be given out circumstances arose which frustrated that plan. The women and children sent to the west were returning, and some of them found their way over the Kei and swelled the population of Kentani. Oba's people were going back to the frontier too, and though the farm Aberdeen in the district of Victoria East was assigned to the chief and leading people of the clan as a residence, in reward of their good conduct, it was thought expedient to provide for several hundred families by allotting them ground in the district of Kentani. Then some of the rebels who registered themselves and gave up their arms when the amnesty was proclaimed were sent there also. And lastly there were the rebels who had been made prison- ers — among them Tini, — and who had been sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour for two years as punish- ment for what they had done, to be considered. There was no place so suitable for them as Kentani. Galekas too were constantly applying to be allowed to settle as loyal subjects in Willowvale. Kreli was in Bom- vanaland, where there was no room for many of his people, and as the applicants gave up their arms and professed to be entirely submissive, they were received favourably and ground was assigned to them. So very shortly both Willowvale and Kentani contained so large a Bantu population that there was no vacant space of sufficient extent for a European settlement. These two districts, with Idutywa, Butterworth, Nqa- makwe, and Tsomo, were formed into a kind of province,