The massacre
The story of the massacre is described by Mr R. Stewart, of the Kaffrarian Mission as follows:
Afterwards we learned that within half an hour of our departure from St. Paul's the (impi) army of the Pondomise arrived there, and burned the teacher's house and church; so that the thunderstorm, despite the wetting it gave us, was a great mercy, in that it probably delayed their arrival until after our departure. We desired to send a body of men from this place to another out-station, Umbogolwana (Mboktwana), to bring out the teachers and native Christians there. But owing to the smallness of our force this was deemed, by the leaders of the expedi tion, impossible. These poor people at Umbogotwana (Mboktwana), I have learned since, were surrounded the following night, and seven of the men killed, amongst whom were Klass Lutseke, the native catechist, Joshua Mabengwana, the schoolmaster, and Daniel Sokombela, the schoolmaster of Umjika; the women and children were allowed to escape, however, and many of them, including the families of Klass, Joshua, and Daniel, have, after great privations, reached us here at Umtata in safety.
Callaway describes how Bransby Key, bishop of St John's understood that the massacre was an attack on Christians rather than on a racial or tribal group (the Fingoes).
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