Excerpt from Report and Proceedings of the Committee of the Legislative Council of Cattle-Thefts: July, 1863 Do not these arms very soon get out of repair 7 - rif they. Belonged to the Government they would, perhaps, be all condemned but with a native's knowledge and power of secretingzhimself in the bush, it does not become necessary for him to use his gun at long ranges. He creeps about in the bush and is always near you, and he has not the fear of a gun bursting that we have. We condemn our guns sometimes before they are unserviceable. Many of the Kafirs' guns would soon become unserviceable if much fired out of; but they do' not use them except in war. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.