The first trek was that of Trichardt and the Van Rensburgs. They went to the north, but the Van Rensburgs were massacred in the most horrible way by the Kaffirs, and Trichardt's party reached Delagoa Bay after indescribable sufferings in a poverty-stricken condition, only to die there of malarial fever.
FOOTNOTES:
[4] Theal, History of the Boers, page 64.
[5] Oceana, page 34.
[6] Theal, page 62.
[7] Theal, 102.—Cachet.
[8] 6 & 7, William IV., ch. 57.
THE FOUNDING OF NATAL.
Murder of Piet Retief.