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 1^875] Sir Henry Barkly. 45 irritated Gangelizwe that he prepared to attack Menziwe, who thereupon fled with his people to Idutywa and asked for protection from Mr. J. H. Garner, who during Mr. Cumming's absence was acting there as superinten- dent. On the 5th of August Menziwe's women and cattle crossed the Bashee into Idutywa, and were followed by the warriors of the clan, six hundred in number, who were pursued to the river's edge by a Tembu army. Kreli was induced on this occasion, as at the time of his daughter's ill treatment, to refer the matter to the Cape government, and the residents with the two chiefs, Messrs. J. Ayliff and W. Wright, were instructed to hold an investigation. The inquiry took place at Idutywa, in the presence of four representatives sent by each of the chiefs. Umbande, son of Menziwe, who had been one of Gangelizwe's most confidential advisers, was the principal witness. After taking evidence, Messrs. Ayliff and Wright found there was no doubt of Gangelizwe's guilt, whereupon the governor inflicted upon him a fine of two hundred head of cattle and £100 in money. If the murdered woman had been a Tembu probably nothing more would have been heard of the matter. But she was a Galeka, and the people of her tribe, who were not satisfied with Gangelizwe's punishment which they thought should have been much heavier, seemed resolved to avenge her death. Commandant Bowker was therefore instructed to enter Tembuland with a strong body of the frontier armed and mounted police, reinstate Menziwe, the Fingo chief whom Gange- lizwe had driven away, and prevent hostilities by the Galekas. On the 14th of September the police crossed the Bashee for this purpose with Menziwe's clan. Gangelizwe and his subordinate chiefs then did as they had done once before in a time of difficulty : they offered to place their country and their tribe under the control of the Cape government. On the 28th of