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96 History oj the Cape Colony. [1878 tainship, he surrendered all his arms, and promised to be obedient to the colonial government in the future. A small tract of land in the district of Elliotdale was then purchased from the Bomvanas, and was allotted to him as a residence. There the last paramount ruler of the Xosa tribe, the man whose command had once been implicitly obeyed by every warrior from the Keiskama to the Bashee who could hurl an assagai, passed the remainder of his life in almost complete obscurity. As far as food and clothing were concerned, he wanted nothing, and the Galekas still regarded him with affec- tion and reverence, but he must often have reflected with bitterness upon the fact that he was no longer a power in the land. Such is the inevitable fate of a barbarian ruler who endeavours to resist the progress of a civilised neighbour, he must go under. After the battle of Kentani most of the Galekas, who were in a condition of extreme poverty and distress, professed submission to the European authorities, and were permitted to settle in the part of their former country that thereafter became known as the district of Willowvale. Kiva with a small band of really desperate men would neither flee nor submit. He vowed vengeance against his uncle Mapasa for abandoning the Galeka cause and becoming a dog of the white man, and declared he would never rest until he had shed the blood of the traitor. But his career was soon ended. On the 8th of March the forest which he had made his retreat was attacked by a force of Fingos, and in the skirmish he was killed. Thereafter only police work remained to be done in Galekaland, for armed resistance was over.