Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A tsakiyar shekarun 1830, "Mai tallata kasuwanci", wanda ke wakiltar 'yanci na Cape Town, ya shiga cikin "yaƙin jarida" tare da babban jaridar tsattsauran ra'ayi na gabashin gabas, Robert Godlonton's "Grahamstown Journal". Babban jaridar Dutch na kasar, "De Zuid Afrikaan" ya ƙare tare da "Grahamstown Journal". Duk da matsin lamba, Fairbairn ya ci gaba da matsayinsa na kasancewa tare da Xhosa, har zuwa barkewar Yakin Yakin na 7.
(1846), lokacin da yanayin ɓarkewar ya sa ya zama abin takaici da rashin jin daɗi game da yanayin gabaɗaya. Har ma ya hukunta shugabannin Xhosa a fili domin ayyukansu.