CALDERWOOD (Rev. H.)
Caffres and Caffre Missions:
Author’s presentation copy. “This work contains an account of the author’s experiences among the Kaffirs and Fingoes, first as a missionary and afterwards in his capacity as Civil Commissioner. His first post was Gaika Commissioner, to which he was appointed by Sir Peregrine Maitland, and this office he exchanged at the urgent request of Sir Harry Smith, for that of Civil Commissioner of Victoria. … Like many other authors, the writer considers that the frequent changes of the system of government by the home authorities were among the most serious causes of the Kaffir wars, but that many of the other reasons often given, such as the crowding of the natives, and the injustice of the colonists to the aborigines, are unfounded, to a great extent .” (Mendelssohn 1, p. 246)
