"... he had a leather bag around one shoulder, which he still carried and which contained his papers, including Mr Retief's negotiated treaty with Dingane, the circumscription of the land – this was to us all a wonder to see, as the bodies had been lying there for so long, and since the papers were still so unblemished and clean…"
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Cilliers' recollection of the recovery of the remains of the Retief delegation on December 21, 1838, more than 10 months after their murders, as reported in his Journaal, and quoted by G.B.A. Gerdener in Sarel Cilliers, die Vader van Dingaansdag, Cape Town, 1919, p. 104.
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Sarel Cilliers
Charl (Sarel) Arnoldus Cilliers (7 September 1801 – 4 October 1871) was a Voortrekker leader and a preacher.
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