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Letter from Lt Henry Clifford of the Rifle Brigade to his brother Charles, dated King William’s Town 1 July 1848: ‘The Kaffirs are going on with their old tricks again, stealing cattle - one was taken prisoner last night, tied hand and foot, but the rascal escaped by eating through the ropes that tied his legs’. From a collection of letters to England from Captain Henry Clifford of the Rifle Brigade while serving in Cape Colony, 1848-1853.