ve scale."
This would imply that at this time, the relationship between Shaka and the trading settlement was amicable, his willingness to increase trade and co-operate, suggests a desire to embrace the opportunity provided by the colony, to expand his own resources.
The book details how at this time Port Natal was experiencing difficulties with labour, and the production of sustenance, for the small community to survive on. Financial pressures created by the loss of the cargo at sea, created an opening for James King, who in 1825, travelled to the Cape with supplies and items to trade. Unfortunately the
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