[[202]] Wilmot and Chase, Annals of the Cape Colony (1869), p. 437.
[[203]] W. A. Newman’s Memoir of J. Montagu, 1855.
[[204]] A good deal might have been excused in a document issued under such circumstances, but the word “exterminate” was not a happy one, and was frequently seized on afterwards by opponents of Sir Harry in England. How little it represented the writer’s real feeling is shown by a sentence in a letter to his wife of 24th May, 1851: “I hope yet to see all the ringleaders hung, while I would willingly forgive the poor wretches who have been led astray by the wickedness of others.”
[[205]] Consisting of the 6th, 73rd, 91st, and 45th Regiments.
[[206]] Dispatch to Lord Grey, 17th March, 1852.
[[207]] Cape Town Mail, April 5th and 8th, 1851.
[[208]]
“Horse Guards, 7th March, 1851.
“It appears to me that this insurrection of the Caffres is general and quite unjustifiable, sudden, and treacherous.
“In my opinion Sir Henry Smith ought to have the means in Regular Troops and Light Equipments of ordnance to form two bodies of troops, each capable of acting independently in the field, each of which should give countenance and support to the detachments of Boers, Hottentots, and loyal Caffres, by which the rebel and insurgent Caffres should be attacked and driven out of the country.