Nor did they trek for a little reason.

Listen and judge.
One of the Bezuidenhouts, Frederick, was accused of treating some black slave of his cruelly, and a body of the accursed _Pandours_, the Hottentots whom the English had made into a regiment, were sent to arrest him.

He would not suffer that these black creatures should lay hands upon a Boer, so he fled to a cave and fought there till he was shot dead.

Over his open grave his brethren and friends swore to take vengeance for his murder, and fifty of them raised an insurrection.

They were pursued by the _Pandours_ and by burghers more law abiding or more cautious, till Jan Bezuidenhout, the brother of Frederick, was shot also, fighting to the last while his wife and little son loaded the rifles.