TOGSKN. 
 
 By 
 
 '•CITIZENS! THERE IS NOT A MOMENT 
 TO ilE LOST! . . . .TO ARMS! CITIZENS, 
 TO ARMS! .... THE COUNTRY IS' IN 
 
 DANGER." 
 
 — Camille Desmoulins, Jct.y 14, 1798. 
 
 NEW YORK. 
 1899-. 
 
>•• 
 
 TOOSIN. 
 
 •'CITIZENS! THERE IS NOT A MOMENT 
 TO BE LOST ! .... TO ARMS ! CITIZENS, 
 TO AtlMS ! ... - THE COUNTRY IS IN 
 
 DANGER." 
 
 ^^CA^Ntiixfe DesmOuI.insj July 14, 1798.- 
 
 18 9 9) 
 
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 DEDICATED J 
 
 TO THE ^ .^ 
 
 WORTHY PRESIDENTS 
 OF THE 
 
 SOUTH AFRICAN REPUBLIC 
 
 AND THE • ' 
 
 ORANGE FREE STATE,; 
 
 AND TO 
 THE BRAVE AND FAITHFUL. :\rEN 
 
 WHOSK NOBLrE FATHERS FOUHHT FOR THE RIGHTS OF 
 
 MAN IN CAPE COLONY, IN 1815, AND WHO HAVE 
 
 CONSISTENTLY DEFENDED THOSE JUST Wn^^WTS; 
 
 EVER SINCE THAT MEMOUAHLK UTRISING. 
 
 *' ' T tS A tintrGH LAND OF EARTH. AND STONE, AND tfiEtCj 
 
 Where hreathe?^ no cAstled lord or CABm'i) slavI?^ 
 Where thocohts and Tf)NOi'Ef< and hands are boLd and fK^r, 
 
 And friends Wiix fin« a welcome, foes a grave ;■ 
 And where noXe kneel save when to heaven thev pray, 
 
 n«t kve>" then unless in thier 0\\n way " 
 
 — Jialleek; 
 
it is 1:^88 ;i!i(l iTu' seciK.' is Glaris; Gliiris with its w(.'altlM;)f ^'looiiiy ra\^-' 
 iiic and snowy al])iiie liciu'lit, tlio vast rock-fortrt'ss iwux'd l)y Natui'c on Hel- 
 vetian soil. To tlic frontiers rnsli its slu plierd-jieojile, i'eW in nuud)ers 
 .Miorly attired, aided oidy ]»}' the men of Sehvryz ; hnt liiaiiy and niigluy 
 111 tlieir nake<l selves heeanse animated l)y a quenchless lo-re id' Lihkiity and 
 -;n])i)orted by the invisible bnt jfotent aid given by i-esislh'ss 'rRi'Tii untd a. 
 riLiiitedUs cause: An .Vnstrian arm)' lias gath'ji'ed tliere ; iwenty to one^ 
 its panoplied array cbntronts those peasvnfdU'roeSj-— meetino,- ha.nghtily t leir 
 mild plea for ]:)eaee with con'lilions so deba.sing and so harsh that no fr--:' 
 i>;an'S spirit could ])end vyithout bre;d<ing beneatli theii- pitiless ^^•eight. Does 
 tlie o]>preK^or menacing life and laiiil and libertv without a sliadowof justice 
 to autliorize liis actions, j)ros})er ? Ko I At the foot of lofty, snow-clad 
 Ruti, liis anny is sliattered — its flower lies slain ; and the schemes of heart- 
 less and>ition are forever destroyed. 
 
 It is 189vt, and to the north and west of rugged Natal gatlu-r the nu- 
 clei of future miglity armies. Tyranny and Greed have Inarshalled the 
 mereenarie?^ of bne of the world's richest and most pinssant sovereigns, to hilrl 
 them, with the miseries and horrors of Avar, upon a simple, unoffending, ]»as- 
 t<n'al people who, lying in the path of British ernpii-e an<l inliabiting regions 
 ]>erhaps second to none in mineral treasure, have awalveiieil ^ome of the vil- 
 tst and most dan.geroits of the passions dominating human actions. 
 
 Strong in their love of liberty, tliough weak in end)attled numl)ers3 
 tliese devoted people, freemen of the South Afiican Kejltddic, — allied only 
 with their Free State brethren, — haste to front 0})pression'S frown witlnn its 
 tisurped realms,- and tliere oppose tlieir patriot breasts to ba^' the threateiic'd 
 iaiin to their toil-won FAXHERi.ANf:/; 
 
 Has History reverted T- — Are we living in the shadoAV of a veritably 
 impending Twentieth Century? — Have five hnndred years rolled l>y, and a 
 so-called era of progress still permits as shockiiig an exhiliitiou of unbridled 
 arrogance, of subversive tyranny, of insuperable injustice; as the barbarous^ 
 
^' ignorrjice "" ol* tiic dccricMl 
 fereiit ;;]>;it]iy V Ai'o \vv mo 
 ("li uJ;!t'ii! — \t'rY (]<)ui)1iiil. 
 rule i!:t iiiin<!s of inocU'iii iiu'ii 
 
 '(id^'Je Ages ever beheld' Svitli eallons 5r iiiclif- 
 
 lly, ;is well as iiKhisti'Jally, aclvauciiig ? It is 
 
 rhe ^eU'-saine sf-othiiig' or tumultuous |)a;-sio!;s 
 
 those that sv.-ayed tlit' Egyptian, the As- 
 
 sjniau, uav ]/nuieYa,l raees; t'oi- ])etter or for worse, bv tlieiv im|iulsi\'e or ea]i- 
 rieioTis ilictatl'.'^; True, u!iivers;i], E^bar'atioi) <Tiii alone instruct us liow to 
 contreil these, and felicitous! v direct their proper application. 
 
 But, uuf-'Ttunately, we ar*' nbt rightly educated ; nor does any ininic- 
 diate ( r eai'Iy prospect (,'f our In^tig so, flatter us Avith pronuse. 
 
 Reflect upon the almost 1v(n-ld-wide system that vitiatingly pi'evails ! 
 We ARK tauglit to reverence wliat should long ago hra'e become an 
 hbsole'e mythology, alioundir.g — as Lt (bsesz-^^with preposterous marvels, per- 
 nicious supei'stilion^ and vulgar an«l reVolthig incidents, that <lisgust and I'e- 
 ])el intelligent searchers after I'mth, in despite of a leavening of exalted 
 ]iioral axiom ; Ave are dailv instl^'Utf-d by unchecked desires or bv more se- 
 ductive <.'xain])le, to siiiie much *ff the rega.rdAve sho;dd feel towards ouir fel- 
 low m; i; — ttj mulct liini by the shreAv<l and sanctioned ti'ickei-v of trade ; 
 to<Kct AC him by disingenu')uf^ iiprcsentatitais ; and to I'cmove him by 
 fals. lu.od, conspiracy, or even force, from an advantaL;-eous position he may 
 ■ '■' py, that >ve or OiU's may becoTiie iiis-ialkd into it h\ liis sttad ; — and ail 
 ihii-^ fortlic acquirement of Fame -—Position- — Wkat.tii! miia'o'red to ourci'td- 
 ulousA'ision as tlie chief aims and ei'^ds of eai'thly elfoi't. 
 
 A\'eare^:oT taught ifu])licit 'vbecbienct' to those irifiexible mandates of 
 X;itrr<^ entitled tluj laAVs of healtli, in default of wluch there can exist neither 
 sound physical, nor])erfect menlaU oi',t;'anizalion ; Ave are not monitoi'ed into 
 con.'-cientious cor.sideralion foi- the I'ighl!^ and well-being of our felloAV m.en, 
 no viKvtter Avhat their religion, race. Or rnnk, AA'itliout wldch and the judic- 
 i'i s disjilav of self-saciilice on occasion, tliere can be no real or lasting hap- 
 j iicss ; and justice, chaiaty, and lionesty cea.fje to be. Far fi'om it, Ave 
 
 ai< i^rged to lo.'-t' all siglit of these vital rcipiisites in the mad strife for that, 
 VsSiich Avheii I'calized, is but as the gatheiXMi man.chineel in its temjiting out- 
 er attractivene;- s and real inner deadliru'ss and disappointing^" \Vortldessiiess. 
 
 As A\-ith iiidividiials, so with society to a greater or les^* exteitt. In- 
 
 '.U^ri'Uials form and modify si^-ciety, sofiety forms and modifies llioJie avIio 
 
eonstitutt' it, pvoportionaii}' to IJie ao-grogato iiitelligciiee and onliglitciiinont 
 it |i()ssc'S8t'S aiul tlie rect'ptivcness of (.'acJi meiiiln'r. J)Ut, slartiug willi 
 
 ;i fiiiidaiueiitally ovronc^ous education, soL-ifty, while it may niilig.ile \'i('es 
 or errors if ils tiviid is })]'ogrestdve; cainiot be expected to wiiolly eradicate 
 tlicm until ils (lAvn prima! defect, tliat of the ixim-inuAL, is con-ecleil ; ;\n<l 
 if its tendency is not exalted in its nature, it niay be looked to as the source 
 of much world-wide harm. 
 
 xVs Y\'ith s(!ciety, so witli governments ; similar iniperfec["ions, due to' 
 tlic same cause, detei'iorate them ; vre view, tiierefore, the latter midtiplying 
 on a large scale tlie evil <{ualities of the individual. Wluit a repulsive 
 
 jwesentation does cA'cn our own ' government alford ! A ];irge nnnd")er 
 
 of agents, eallecl <Jiploni;!ts, ai'e employed, wliose coveted ofh^'e, for whicli they 
 ;ire carefully trained, is to systematically misrejiresent, chicane, atid delude iii 
 all possible ways ; — a hireling body, the army, is luaintained in a condition a- 
 kiii to serfdom, and is drilled into unreasoning obedience of all orders, 
 and to yield up life or lieaitli in any canse, Itowever ])uerile or however 
 Svi'ong, of ten warring on tlie poorer classes in support of the unprincijilcd and 
 unfeeling ric]i;--and a ^ast tribe i^ourislies amorig us and gi'asps ceaselessly 
 at the high jdaces, creatures wlsose houses of glass Roscommon, and Swift 
 marked deeply, long ago, with, their diamond Avit ; the lawyers, Avho, disgra-c- 
 ing the semi-civilization of A\hich they are the illegitimate olf spring, sink all 
 concern for honesty and justice in the selfish realization of their andjitious po- 
 litical aims, the narrow instincts of iinaiicial emolument,' or the scarcely less 
 deuHjralizing })r<mi(;tion of a ruinous extreme of commercial prosperity, cer- 
 tain to prove ultimately fatal to their country. 
 
 Tins is the true reason for the possibility of the perpetration of such- 
 an iid'aniy as that of the South African War just begun; not so much is it 
 ti'aceable to faults inherent in any particular system of government, as to 
 defects in the individuals com])osing them all, — defects arishig from the 
 j[ai,-ei>i;('at:on' of the Max. 
 
 A\'hy tlien, tlie reader may enquire ; wiite this woik, if niaidcindj 
 for the reason you haA'e just advanced, is incapable owinu 1o its luental 
 blindness, of sym]>athi:;cing with your object — ruiv, perhajis of even ]-ight!y 
 coiupreheiiding wliat that object is V To this 1 reply : that in cAcry 
 
land \yhcvQ the rifdimcnts ot cHlucation oxist, soiiio men may he fouiid wlio 
 can aiul ^\il! Ui,irlt>rst ami, and can and A\'i]l exalt aAvortliy pnrpo^^e, aye ! even 
 at tJif risk of nial'tyiNlon!, Avlien once tlie ])otent ini])ulse is given to tiieir dor- 
 iiiant thou;;]it. Tlieir nund)ers may be few, bnt tlieir efforts unceas- 
 
 ing : tJieir leaclirngs — tlieir exajIPle — far extending and c<invincing. 
 
 Tiiey will prove tlial the Boer of Soutli Africa has been most sliame- 
 fully maligned ;^ most imjnstitiably })e]"secnted ; and tliat lie is waging tiv 
 day, a glorious ]»a,tlle ; not, because of this, for limiself alone ; h/a ajso 
 for tli:' (li>iritt,r()ddi )i of the ■Korld <igaiiisl ilie lltani'c forces of W'ea't/t 'dud 
 Opj>resi<i.oji, 
 
 This is tlie wh,y and tlie wherefore of tliis poem and its annotations ; 
 may its seed, scattered ])i'oa<tcast, cjiance to light upon, and germinate in, 
 some sucli congeriial soil. 
 
 Oct: 30x11, 1899. 
 
(lije (L.ocsui; 
 
 The Call, 
 
 Over: mouiifaiii sunl xv\d{ tlic tocsin is viii_i>'i!\u', 
 
 Fi'diii viihmH' ami I'anii its war-notes arc hriiis^ini^' ;. 
 
 TJh' o-i-t'vlH'ard'Utul stri]>!iii,u\ witli caiT'.^v steps si.)riiigiiig-j. 
 'r<'> (hviV and tu iVw t'of tlieii' dear native lanil I 
 
 Afar to tlie winds its vil>raiit tony-ue swing'ino-, 
 'i'liis' soul-stii-rint;- cail— tliis alarnm — is w inu'iiKj; : 
 
 "Rise I iHirgiiers vise ! the yoke from you Hiniiing 
 Twice t'astene<! ujioii you l>y Tyranny's liaiul. 
 
 Rise ! l)in\u-]iers riwe ! tlie strife is ])e2;ii)ning ; 
 
 Loosen tile fond anus aljout your necks clino-iu!.'; ; 
 Haste to tlie front, vour i)att!e iiyitin sini:,-in!4', 
 
 For IIoAfK and for T.iheiitv take your last stand ! " 
 Narrative. 
 Ifai'lv!- wliat is that sound i»reaking loud on my ear? 
 
 ForteTitous with terror and horror and sliame. 
 All I what ai-e yon forms that all warlike aj)]iear, 
 EngHrl)e<l in o-ay colors aylow like a liame V 
 
 'Tis the rtiml)le and jar of tlie engines of Wav 
 
 In the land ot the heath and tlie kameel-<loi'n tree ; ' 
 
 ^Tis the trample (»f feet where feet ne'er trod before 
 
 SaA'e the swift karossed Katfir's, once curbless and free. 
 
 Lo I the sons t)f tlie " first of all civilized laiitls, " 
 Hasten on to efftice Avitli Ruin's di'ead flame 
 
 At a '' peace-lovini.';" (jueen's mowt "christian" commands 
 From South Africii's soil all liepabllcan luMnt. 
 
lU'dtcki-d wilJi thi- lr:i|i])iiiL;s ttf hai'liavic jii'idc — • 
 
 -\11i!-J; willi tlu- j.ii-i-,siin\' uJ' i.cist L;](.r'n.s won — 
 "I'licN clamor lo iiu'ct willi a iue lln'v (k'i-iilc% 
 .\ii(i liun-y to (Icatli bv false visions led oil, 
 
 Vtiv the (lay-diiaiiis of lielus t]iat n-lamor their sitj'lit ; 
 
 And tlie \vit(-li-i-ays of (llory oiidaz/liuu- tlieir jtatli ; 
 .\s, soidli'ss and llioiiu'litless, tliey laisli to the tii>-lit, 
 
 On a foeman of mettle to siiowei- their wratli, 
 
 Slirdl evanisli awav fi'oni the red-eoated slaves 
 
 Like til e hrief after-L>'leaniino-s that (hirt from tlie sun- 
 Like the wake of tlie vessel enwhitenini;- tlie waves — 
 Aui\ l)es])air overniantle tlie task they've In'u-un. 
 
 .Vnd for what ? For what eriine are these Eny'lish wohes told 
 To aii!4iiish the iniioeeiit — slannhter the l)ra\c — 
 
 To hari-y and rava<j,v the fanii and the told — 
 
 And east Youth and ^\.i;e to the maw of the ^-raveV 
 
 l-\ir the eriine tli;;t has perilled, in ;dl a_ues past, 
 All tribes and all nations both little and ^^reat ; 
 
 I'he re]iiited ])ossession of treasure more \:ist 
 'I'han his who eoveted the Partliian State. 
 
 Ib't think not that alone the rich AN'atersrnnd 
 lias siu'hted the cannon and shai-])ened tlie steel 
 
 And freiu'hled tlie transports to Africa's strand — 
 Ib'itish e;irs by mere ^'old ai'e not closed to a]»peal. 
 
 UvA bv cans^> ; s jiotent ; the hati'e<l of I'acc ! 
 
 The ^ree*! Ic'V dominion I the Inst of Anibilion 1 
 Thre.' vices that millions of mankind d;sj,-i'ace, 
 
 Aiiil dcnu'::n and (Terthrow w.hat(.'\'r tluir conditiDii. 
 
Till' Stall's (tl S(nit]i AiVic* Ii.avc (lar<M'i lo dcry 
 A uiiiiiarcliy's lidyht [\'w ul" vort? ]ui\t- wJtli li.n.el ; 
 
 A\ liicli, abhorriuo' rcijublii's, their riglits would dciix' 
 T-i i/(yern (//."jiis 'Irt.^ a:< n free jn'oph' xIkhiII ! 
 
 To tlic iian-ativc listen, that T sliall relate ; 
 
 Of .Vlliiou's actions of eonseieiu-eless wr<)iiiL;', 
 ^\'lii(li sttrnly ]in cludiro- ('(fence oi- (li'l;ate 
 
 N'oiee the tyraiiny shown 1o the tiu-ah' hv the .stfiui;;. 
 
 I'ive scoi-e and tive years ay'o, the Dutch at Cape Town ; 
 
 A few lliousand farmers ^j)read 'round U'ahle JJay ; 
 ]ve)iounc('d tlK> wiak prince who liad weighted them down 
 
 With tlie desj)otic mi^ht tliat sncli rulers displav. 
 
 A spark from iheheacon tliat liylited u}» France, 
 And tlu~ tinsel of royalty scoi'ched as it l>lazed, 
 
 Wafted o'er to the C;\]K' ; from a long'-lastinjj;- trance 
 Its pi'ople awakening, free standards u]»raised. 
 
 Tliey formed a re])ul)lic — iVli I brief it endured; 
 
 I''or Orange a])pealed to the all-gras]»ing if^le^ 
 An<l sjieedily ample assistance secui'ed ; 
 
 For aid is ott s])eedy wlien niade worth tiie while. 
 
 The isle that lias reachc<l out afar o'er the sea. 
 And seized on the fairest of Earth as her sj)oil, 
 
 To root, Iranch, and re-root, like the huge l)anian tree, 
 Wit]) aridity caught'-at this fresh fei'tile soil. 
 
 And h.ow did slie rule the land she tlins sei/.ed '.' 
 AVith kind and considerate c:;ie foi- its Aveal '^ 
 
 I'niil the fresh wounds of its [icf'sple a])])e.ised 
 
 Soothed by Love's magic balm seemed I)eginning to heal V 
 
As it fni'f'cl Willi tl)o youlirs wiiose palnieiitK onme undel' 
 'Vlu: luiiid mid ilic ii('l'l>s of Cathay's learn "(i ju-iiu-oiss — -- 
 
 Ami tlif |.iai-ls tliat the sword had stricken asxnuier 
 Joined siiiuotiily tooetlier witli Orilloan qiiiekiiessV 
 
 Oil tio ! ^Vith a hia'ii and a ri<^-orous iiand 
 
 She i-estricted the i»riee i>f the sellino- of u'rain ; 
 
 >iude Knu'lisli e'.)ni{)ulsory o'er tJie ve.\e<t land ; 
 
 j!i.iid poiie'e foi-nitMl of Ho/teiuois made it maintain ! 
 
 Phrced iy,nora!il [slacks, of degenerate mind, 
 
 In j)ositi<ins eonferi'inu- nnicli absolute ]>o\ver, 
 And decreed sticli harsh lav.'s j»rotecting- their kind 
 
 As t(» stir n[,> tlie Boers, wlioni they hoped they u-ould cowei' 
 
 In Kii>,-]itee!,^si\-teen a rebellion was (jnelled, 
 
 Aiid live of the rins>'!eadet'K ci-uell\' hung ; 
 ^^'hi!e their Xvivts aii<l theii" tvieiuls were harshly compelled 
 
 'I'o view th^> Ktianenls their hist aj^'ouiew wrun^'. 
 
 To tlie farm of \'an Aavll" were these martyrs c<';ii\-eyed ; 
 
 Like the lifted (4iron<le at the scart'oid they sang ; 
 Witii cannon and muskets the red-coatf-, arrayed, 
 
 Aweii the citizens hack till the last cruel par.g 
 
 ilail ended tlie liveS: vjf tlmse whose sole crime 
 
 Was attempt from the shackles of Power to t'.y — ■ 
 
 Four ropes failed in strengtii at tlie criticid timt\ 
 And toui' rose laihaniR-U ol' those swung off to die ! 
 
 Ave ! w'(»MKX and cmi^oitKN by soldi:;rs were forced 
 Two hUngirigs of husbands a-nd fatiiers to see ! 
 
 AViiile tears down tlie cheeks of tlie multitude courseil 
 As they clamored the c-suiltlksvs of bl«ojd shoukl be free 
 
 
Invocativei 
 
 t)]i ! friends of the men 
 That at Slacutuck's Neic died, 
 Come — liaste to tlie vengeance 
 That War will provide ! 
 
 Let thonghtH of the hntchery 
 
 J>ase Somerset caused, 
 And folloAved with exile 
 
 Ere Cruelty paused ; 
 
 Enstrengthen each arm 
 
 To stoutly oppoS3 
 111 battle's ordeal 
 
 Such merciless foes ! 
 
 On ! then, to victory 
 
 Forward in the Right ! 
 Striving and sutferinu- 
 
 'Till won is the fight. 
 
 Narrative. 
 
 Xext,^ England, \vith reai^on, enfranchised the slave ', 
 l)Ut , did Justice ])reside with l)enificent sway? 
 
 No ! Scarcely tiikek-fiftHs of his vaia'e she gave 
 
 In lioiidsgood at l^omlon ; three ^ioxths n'oyage away ! 
 
 Shrewd men "aided" those whom necessity drove 
 
 To disi)ose of these bonds for a })ittance in hand, 
 So farmers were ruined that yesterday throve 
 ^ And a meillev of vagrants rau wii;I <i"cr tlie land. 
 
 fff"-???^"*^— <»».ii^. 
 
 k^ •;'''<!^;U^^SS!l7I^^ 
 
'l\v:is tJie iiiiisliii)2f strilke of liijustiee and wrong" 
 That roused up a liardv and resolute raee ; 
 
 rhey turned from tlieir country, usuri)ed l)y the sti'oiio"^ 
 And sought in tl)e wihls a ne\\' dweliiug-phu'e. 
 
 rhey disposed of tlieir farms fov wliate'ei' tliey would hring] 
 They .sold'out their stores for a ti'itle at hest ; 
 
 I'acked their rude, chimsy, carts with most eAerytlrng 
 
 Tli't'y could save from the wreck — and set out on tlit'ir (juesi 
 
 Of new homes in a land that is now Tsatal called 
 liut thtn was'a u ildtrjuss, vmkriown, ar.d a ] iiiH 
 
 Of the kingdbm'bf Dingan '; a desjiot installed 
 By flte murder of Ohaka " the ciaiel of heart ; " 
 
 On the Kaffirkind tlirone. One who viewed with distrust 
 The spread uf those Boers o'er Ins royal domain, 
 
 Who, in Rktiek's leadershij.» placing their trust. 
 Proclaimed that they ])urposed in peace to renuiin. 
 
 The malice of England, who could not preAcnt 
 
 Tiie vast emigration, M'as Litterly shown 
 In annoying the lielpless who could not i-esent 
 
 Tyrannical Lirrdens full swift on tlient tlirowin 
 
 The powder and guns of the first Hoei- hands 
 Were seized by the piJtiless (TO\ernoi''s orders ^ 
 
 80 tliese pioneers perished Ly enemies hands — ■ 
 Or by fajnine — far over Oajie Colony's Ijorders; 
 
 l^ut tile How of tile Exodus rolled grandly on, 
 
 Aiid stretched out afar o'er the pr(.)mising plains 
 That lay 'twixt the \n:\\ and the lair Caledoii, 
 Ere the fords were impeded by torrential rainsi 
 
Tlieii li)K)ii the porir exiloS .1 liol'co (tusky bnlul, 
 In't'eathered— ^Lepjiiiited — and naked foi" war ; 
 
 Tlie tiower of ZhlulMiid's uTini iiioiiarcirs eonunaiid, 
 
 Leaped, deTuon-like, yelling'. All ! tlieii all seemed o'er ! 
 
 For Ike warrioi'M Nvere many, the Boers were few, 
 And worn with tlie liunger and toil of the Avay, 
 
 ■'But til ey laagered and swiftly the deatli-lire Hew 
 
 Froitrihf slopes of Vecut Kor* Avhere their foloi'n liojx' lay. 
 
 Like tlie flesli-searing^ rain of the Danteaii hell ; 
 
 From a brown sea Of forms dark as Trinida<rs lake 
 Fkime-feathered witli lire tlie assegai fell — 
 
 Like the dasli of the gnu adown Keisi's dim brake 
 
 AVas the charge of tliat host on the wagons and trees 
 Whence the old flintlock muskets incessantly spoke 
 
 As each rush of the regiments onward to seize 
 
 The white sti'etrgers fortress, they baffled and ])rokt'. 
 
 Thus tlie army Moselekatze cliose from liis nation 
 In a brief hour slirank like tlie cereus' Idoom 
 
 And the glare of the Hames from the Boers liill'hiug station 
 Illumed heapings of slain that tlie jackals entomb. 
 
 Then Graliamstown lighted huge fires, overjoyed 
 
 At the rumors that i^})read o'er tlie land like tlie smoke, 
 
 Believing the Boers tliey so liated, destroyed 
 
 In tlie iiames of a camp wlience no fugitives broke, 
 
 Next, a treaty concluded A\dtli Din gan, tlie king, 
 
 Gave the Trekkers jiossession of large tracts t)f land 5 
 
 But that crafty Zulu was secretly seeking 
 
 To delude and destroy tlieir poorly armed bandj 
 
Op|tortuiihy caiiie, (as the \\'i\f one tliouglit), 
 And four score of Boers with hrave Retief fellj 
 
 At tlie ('h)Pe of a feast in an African fort — 
 A tragical ending but few lived to tell ! 
 
 Then down on the cani]) of the helpless ones nigh 
 
 SAvept a terrihle torrent of merciless men, 
 And soon to the heavens rose jdercingaiid liigh, 
 
 Screams of torment and death from that dread slaughter-penj 
 
 There six hundred women and children were pent 
 Under guard of tlie few, Of the Very few, men 
 
 M'lio remained Avhen the ill-fated REtiEl<^ Went 
 On the mission fi-om which he came never again; 
 
 These gazed oh the thousands of weird painted forma 
 And knew that their hour of parting drew near ■ 
 
 Yet the men showed that valor the desperate warms^ 
 And women fought with them, courageous from feaiS 
 
 The children, all thoughtless, with infantile glee 
 Fresh ])Owder and water to doomed {)arents bore 
 
 While the Parc;i?an blade was sund'ring the wee 
 And sCarce-woven threads of lives nearly o'er. 
 
 Ilast'ning hitlier and thither, with dishevelled hair, 
 The women extinguished the Hames that u])spi-ung, 
 
 While shot after shot rang out on rhe air 
 
 'Till their jtowder all sj)ent — their knell it was rung ! 
 
 TluMi <lown on their knees, on the blood-sprinkled sod, 
 
 Fell part of the j>ioiis and u]) from the dying 
 All s<^leiuii and sad rosil a Itvmn tc theii' (rod 
 
 \Miile a feSv vet the host of the fl>c stood defving, 
 
'Orevhead swarmed tile ti*gel'»,et'i?, I'ag'in^-, tliey spi'iimg', 
 
 Below lulddled, ]u'l])]ess, tlieir ffiiuniiie pvey ; 
 AVhile flames from the cam]) long- crimsoii'd darts flung' 
 
 T'-\vards the gay garish light of the calm, mocking, day. 
 
 For a moment that host at the summit a])])cared 
 
 Like the wliite, feathered crest of some (h\rk, rolling, -wave, 
 
 Impending on high a dread volume upreared, 
 
 To descend with an impact no power coidd stave. 
 
 Tiien doAvn from the Wagons and brandies there poured, 
 
 Afire with fury and hatred and hist ! 
 A wihi-yellingj glorying, evil-eyed horde. 
 
 Yaiii rose that last pray'r to Plim cliristians trust ! 
 
 For the war-axes crushed tlie frail skull of the cliild 
 Tossed higli on the barbs of the transfixing spear, 
 
 Fi-e the)^ fell on the parent, distracted and wild 
 At the throes of her infant,, so cherished, so dear. 
 
 For the assegai rent the soft breasts of the maid 
 
 Yet shrieking fix-ni usage more dreadful than death — 
 
 Yet pleading for mercy ; dismembered and flayed ; 
 With the last labored gasp of her agonized breath. 
 
 AYhen the fieiid-work was done an<l the death-heaps Averc strewino 
 Wliere the living move<1 hopefully round at the morn ; 
 
 As the Northern-land lemmings ran onward to ruin 
 The homes and the haiwest till Norge seemed lorn. 
 
 The warriors of Kosa and Xosa and ]^onda 
 
 Afar o'er the farms and the settlements sprea,d, 
 
Kesolved not a Boer shoul<l survive to \yaticlei' 
 
 Where the thousands of late were by Retief locj. 
 
 But there eclioed afar a stern rallyhig cry ■ 
 
 To Pretorius' banner sped iive hundred BoerSj 
 
 Prepared on a lost field of battle to lie, 
 
 Or rejoice in the blcKsings a triumph procures ! 
 
 -And oiiward they umi't^hed through the wild, rugged^ land 
 Till the inipis of Biug'au burst fierce on their sight ; 
 
 Twelve thousand, or more, the broad War-shields expand, 
 And the spear and the bullet commingle in fight ! 
 
 Tlirice set had the sun on that sad scene of strife, 
 
 Ami the javelin still whirred o'er the soihsoalcing slain ; 
 
 Still Cliristian and Kaffir fought madly for life ; 
 Death biding for either who yielded that plain ! 
 
 Oh ! vast was the power and wide spread the sway 
 At morning, of Dingan, the " P]lephant King, ■" 
 •' But, blasted and blighted, they withered away 
 Ere Night, intervening, her baton could fiihg. 
 
 '' jFor the ranks of his Zingans by carnagei waxed, tliin-^ 
 Fell like riVer-reeds, sink at the sweep of the scythe : 
 
 ..And the field, as if scathed by the breath, of the Jimi, 
 Lay blackened ^^ith dead, and Avith dynig awrithe. 
 
 Jnvocsative. 
 
 \ Oh ! sons' of' the Trekkers ! 
 Say! Can" vou forget? 
 ' The 'sorrowful story 
 ' WiVose memory yet 
 
Enrages the just souls 
 
 \V!i() {)icliuv \he woe 
 Of tliose wliom ihv Uritifjll 
 
 Foi'ced naked to go 
 
 To the liarbarous wihls, 
 
 AVitli tliose they held dear 
 To jterish hy famine 
 
 Or fall hy the spear ! 
 
 Reiiiemher tliose heroes 
 
 Preferring to die 
 To living in serfdom^ 
 
 Ann ! England defy ! 
 
 Narrative. 
 
 Bweet Peace, for n time, with encouraging fimik, 
 
 Spread her pinions, (U>Vedike, o'er the blood-sprinkled ground 
 
 And from farm and from mill for many a mile, 
 
 With heart-cheering cadence, came Industry's sound. 
 
 Ah ! but for a while ! Britain hungered aniAV ; 
 
 Natalia, now thriving, lay temptingly near ; 
 So she burst the frail barrier I'rhiciitle drew — 
 
 "For iSotith x\f rica's i)eace, " proclaimed Napier! 
 
 Said Pri>s].oo, then chief of the African State, 
 " The nught of Great Britain will stirely prevail, 
 
 But the wrong she'd inflict Ave'll not tolerate, 
 And we'll battle for Ruiirr till our resources fail ! 
 
 Oh ! would there M'^ere many such excellent men 
 Of principles lofty ; of courage as high ; 
 
Af^ IvvAe?ed who cast from l^oriiholin it=* bn7-'doii. 
 As D' EjJiiiK A\']i(» (larerl iov La Yeiuiee to die^ 
 
 As ^Lau\'ei,i. sul)niittiii^^' to I\)\ei"ty's grijK' 
 When defVction iiivitt'd a sliower of yold ; 
 
 ■A>i this large-liearted Boer and those of his ty]>e — 
 Iiicoi-niptibie I Ktauiu-li ! and — I'are to 1)ehold I 
 
 iVll hail t(; surls iniuds I wdieni-e (Hxr slo\r-n-aiiiiii<f \vOrJd 
 Dnnvs tlie little of Liberty leiiveniiig- its o-looin ; 
 
 'riiey sliail li\e ; tliough their liarhoriiiu- caskets be hurled, 
 A'iiiid wrath or coiiteinpt, to ()bseurity's tomb. 
 
 The Boers under I'kixskoo, tliou^h eaniionless, met 
 The British where tiows the C'ono-ella's seaiit tide 
 
 And they strove for tlieir homes with a ^alor tliat set 
 The red-coats at uauglit and dashe<l theui aside I 
 
 Hul (lie Ens^-lish ineited the Katfii's to ai-m, 
 
 And the \va,rrioi"s I'ushed ea-U'erlv foi'tli to the fray:; 
 
 l^ie shriek and the "Hamed)urst rose hi^'h from the laruj, 
 And — the J)oers suceumbe<l I sueh liorroi's to stav. 
 
 * * * 
 
 Ai;"ain they relimpiish tb.e soil the\' have tilled ; 
 
 Again their rich fai'ms to the i-aider they lea^■e ; 
 A'.id lo ! the trek- wagons, witli movables tilled, 
 
 A rough-jolting way through the Drakensberg Avea\(' 
 
 T(.! the north of the Vaal, where four lew States had birlff 
 
 ■.VlK)m Britain was gi'a.ciously pleased to assiM-e 
 Jdight make their own hnvs and till their own soil 
 Ali'il s/i.e no iiun'c iicir. hinds LOunld iielxe,-or stcurt.! 
 
Witll the passagfe of Time, Iioav this promise eiKlured ! 
 
 The Free State was annexed — tlien in tive years resigned 
 'J\> its rightful possessors, hecaiise, ( Ave're assured ), 
 
 Of its c;osT to protect and its tkoukle to mind 
 
 All along; like the strong, sucker-hranched, Devil Tree, 
 That tAvisting and trailing searched Manoa's ground— 
 
 "Whose blood-nourished tentacles let little break free 
 When once the dread coils enveloped it 'round — - 
 
 AVas Ennlaud o'er seeking, subduinfj and seizini»; 
 
 'I'lie lands and the ])eoples of Africa's clime ; 
 Protesting, Avliile tliese of their all she was easing, 
 
 Agahist Boer conquest-^-THAT, she bi-anded as crime. 
 
 Then gems were found lurking in Orange State soil, 
 Their lustre tlie Landgrasper could not resist — 
 
 So the diamonds of Kimberley formed a rich spoil 
 For tliose no remonstrance could cause to desist. 
 
 Though Great Britain had voWed slie Avould not extepfl 
 
 Her sway over more of the Southern land, 
 Yet in 'Seventy-seven tliat failed to defend 
 
 The " Tkaxsvaat, " from seizui-e ; dark, sly, underhand ! 
 
 It was "deeply in debt " and "menaced by foes, " 
 vVroused by a railroad laid t'wards Delagoa ; 
 
 And Sekkocoeni's and CV'tewayo's 
 
 Great armies conduced its coin*age to lower. 
 
 Then Shepstoiie — as "friend" and "advisor" — appeared ; 
 And remained as lisurj)er, ignorhig each right 
 
Of tlie State he annexed as soon as thei*e neared 
 Its fortressless borders some forces of inight ! 
 
 Oppresision and Wrong for three- years wronght tlieir harnij 
 Till a Botr ^vas maltreated -within Potchefstroom, 
 
 AVhen far o'er the land pealed the tocsin's ahirm ; 
 Forebodant of British sovereignty's doom. 
 
 For the peo})k^ arose and strove with a will 
 
 And Ijattles were fonght whicli added the name;? 
 
 Of Hroxkiiurst, Lain<i's Nek and Majuba Hill 
 To the fair tields of GiOry that Liberty claims. 
 
 For the arrogant British were forced to retreat 
 When Freedom nnfnrled her banner of Right; 
 
 •And — instead of poor tril)esmen foredoomed to defeat — 
 They met whites of a nation as valiant hi tight ! 
 
 Invocative. 
 
 Oh! Men of MA.irnA ! 
 
 Remember of yore, 
 How the, Briton's prond tiag 
 
 From onr mountain you tore ! 
 
 Wliere Siiir won in the day 
 
 More tlia-i Wayne gained at nightj 
 
 In a struggle that dwarfed 
 That " iSto)r>/ Point " higlit; 
 
 What the sires accomplished, 
 
 The sons may re]>eat ; 
 The soldioi;s of Freedom 
 
 Keed fear no defeat ! 
 
if'^,)]')!! ,! hcivisiiien and farmei's !• 
 
 With riUcs ill Ii.uhI, 
 And rally roiiml Joijikrt 
 
 A vesolute h;ui(l ! 
 
 \^ Narrative. 
 
 t'^o. GladstoiK' concede". I the rights of the Hoers, 
 Kesorviiig- a.h)iie, to Great Hi-itain, the option 
 
 The pi'ivilege of fathering treaties ensures : 
 
 To ])revei!t their coiiclusiou or speed theii' a(h)ptioii. 
 
 Thus far all seemed well. l>ut wlio could e.\'j»ect , 
 
 A nation like JJritain, to liold to her Avord, 
 
 AVlien the course of events sliould severely affect 
 Tlie I'esults to lier ])rogress its kee[)ing incurred ? 
 
 In the 'Vaal were discovered rich veiiiings of GOLD ; 
 
 A h)adstone as ])otent to lure ami destroy, 
 As tlie Lead Horseman's spell o'er his Black Mountain hold 
 
 Ere tlie arrows of Agih o'erthi-ew the decoy, 
 
 A medley of miners swarmed into the State — 
 Adventurers seeking- their fortunes to found — 
 
 Confusion intruded where l-*eace reigned of late. 
 
 For the most cared for naught but t/ie gold in the ground ! 
 
 Vet 'twas claimed for these men ; wlio cultured no soil — 
 Who rendfre<l no service tJie State might expect — : 
 
 They shoidd burghers heconie ; he less taxed for their toil i 
 And how the true 13oers to the choice tliey elect I 
 
 Acreature the Rothchilds had trained in their thrall. 
 From tlie Cajx^ to Suez had ]>rojected a wax. 
 
M:\i] surveyed f(ii- his road a courRe thrmtoh flie 'Yaal, 
 
 And designed tliat tlie IJoers shoidd acknowledge the SM'ay 
 
 Not of Eii<>iaiid so ifi'lieli, as h/'s aw/t. Conipiiny'.i. 
 
 Tliis man, ( Cecil Kliodes ), instigated a raid ; 
 III the hey-dcy of jx^ace, under most specious ])leas, 
 
 ])y the tools he procured it \ras huiigliugl v made, 
 'i'he Imrglieis were Avatchfid, and at Doohnkot a net 
 
 Enuu'slied all these brigands aud halked their <lesign. 
 Kncircled most skillfully, those wlioui Ck(»jk beset 
 
 After weak and brief battling were forced to resign. 
 
 Success makes the hei'o-^aud Cecil had failed ! 
 
 The home rulers, at once, all countenar.ee withdrew ; 
 Protesting tliat "England" had not then assailed 
 
 The Rejuiblic JIEK fsoi.DiKits ha<l stro\e to undo I 
 The |)risoners then taken were ([iiickly set free ; 
 
 Aud — though redduinded traitors caught a.rmeil, in the act — 
 AVere but bauished or fine<l, through tlie Uoei's' clemency, 
 
 Wlien tliey might have been hanged — as a matter of fact. 
 
 A\'heu tliey would liaVe been hanged, had the case been revei'sed 
 
 And they had l>eeu. Bokks caught Colony raiding ; 
 i";:r England has evef, with )'igor accursed, 
 
 /vfade "example'' of "rel)els" her domains invading. 
 Ill (Jieat Jiritain^ to p<>wer, a parvi-nu rose ; 
 
 j\\^ ak'ning surprise by his wondrous e\']>ausion ; 
 !.!(■:-■ liie low-born RafHesia, Sumatran wood groAvs, 
 
 Li whose htige iiowfr Foulness takes up her mansion ; 
 
 Repelling, with loathing, the curious seeking 
 Tkti vicinage of its lank, inutile, bloom ; 
 
Tims presenting, iu truLh, a likeness most sperikin;;;;' "* 
 
 Of iJkm self-eJhgrmseSi, ill-sa-yored, h.iiinan niushrooni ! 
 This schemer for station, ( Joe Chamherhiin named ) 
 
 Soxig"lit tlie dark, narrow, patlis whereon diplomats crawl-: 
 Destroyed the good Avork for which Gladstone was famed, 
 
 And trailed — Helix-like — a foul slime over all. 
 Like the wayfarer, honsed by tlie Satyr of old, 
 
 ( As 'tis pithily told in Esopian lo]'e ), 
 Who witli the same breath blew first hot and then cold ; 
 
 He contradicted, at times, \\diat he'd uttered before. 
 He countenanced the schemes Rhodes' roguery hatched, 
 
 And Milner of Cape Town's sly intrigue contrived ; 
 Till 'twere hard to discover three such rascals so matched, 
 
 And their schemes of iniquity broadened and thrived! 
 The calm had subvened that tempests oft folloyi^— 
 
 The franchise, late craved for, the Boers concede, 
 During parleys for peace on England's part hoUaw-r- 
 
 Ah ! now.D.o concessions, yould satM.y Greed ! 
 5s or mere arbitratiqu re.oeiye ,t]ie , approval 
 
 -Of L'handjeriain's faction, whose ambitious crew 
 Is barlessly bent on remorseless removal 
 
 Of those deemed by them a suppressible few. 
 '■Some troops wei-e dispatched and straight took their station 
 
 In xS^atal quite close to the boundary line ; 
 In positions that menaced each gallant Boer nation ; 
 
 Thus firing the train that was laid to the mine ! 
 To TvT;r<;i:R and Steix, of tlie T,u,\N'svAAi, and Feee State, 
 
 Harsh alternati\"es ollered : subjection, or — war! 
 
For years they'd foreshadowed this ultimate fate, 
 And prepared to resist it most timely before. 
 
 Then cried out these brave ones: "Well, let it be War!" 
 They hurl down the gauntlet with resolute hand, 
 
 At once into Natal their armies inpour ; 
 To visit the strife on their enemy's land ! 
 
 All honor to Kkugek ! All honor to Steix ! 
 
 Undaunted by numbers — when many would yield — 
 May their ardor for Lii;>:K'i'Y never decline, 
 
 And their banners in battle tioat o'er the won field I 
 
 Invocative. 
 
 Brave Tkansvaal defenders ! 
 
 Whose forefathers left 
 The farm-lands of Natal 
 
 That robbers had reft ! 
 
 A THIRD TIME behold them ; 
 
 ( The conscienceless thieves ! ) 
 All sateless, they come, 
 
 With the plea that deceives. 
 
 Four horrors confront ye, 
 
 Proclaimed in a breath — 
 The desert ; subjection ; 
 
 Or battle ; or death ! 
 Strive then for Likkrty ; 
 
 Strike for your home ! 
 Until your last foeman 
 
 your arms overcome ; 
 
Vaticinalibri. 
 
 Thv liurricaiK' u-atlivvs ! It anrkviiH the -oky ! 
 
 .S;iv I w'liuse arc the tonus tliat Lelru-e it shall fly? 
 'rhiiu' 1 Tliiiu' I oh falise Ennlaiid ! the maltreated Boel-, 
 
 AnlUMis-like risen, hatli ceased to endure ! 
 
 Thou liast east the bared sword in the fair-M'eighted scale! 
 
 An<l — like Brennus the (TauFs — thy endeavors shall fail. 
 Oh ! dread be the reckoning- ; complete, thy disgrace, 
 
 \\'hen thy armies meet fdemen incensed by menace. 
 
 Thv treasure, oh Britain ! shall slip from thy hand ; 
 
 As Falkenstein's Count's ran changed hito sand — 
 Thy chiefs be dislieartened — thy ])eople distraught — 
 
 And thy realm to the verge of insolvency brmight. 
 
 'i'hv land f^hall be rent by political strife ; 
 
 Dark vobings of sorroAv garl) mother and wife, 
 J^'or the lost that leave bleaching on mountain ftnd veldt 
 
 White fragments of bone where their life stream eVf^t welled j 
 
 And Chanjberlain's raiders Shall long rue the day 
 That their cohorts abetted a demagogue's sway ;' 
 
 AVhoii he and Ms creatm-es of ambitious lust 
 
 Are, Avith Britain's false pride, down-hui-led in th.c dust. 
 
 For when England retiects on tlie warfai-e of shame 
 
 She hath waged with a peo])]e (piih- giiilth'ss ol' hhinu' j 
 
 S^'if-rfepr^at-hee will follow and -Ics'I'ick ai-raign 
 The evil Al'ch Plotter, her curse and her bane-^ 
 
 CuAxMBEKLAliS I 
 
M( 
 
 Page 1 . Caption. 
 
 Tin; TncsiN. 
 Tocsii) is (Icriseil rr-(iin till- ( )1(I l'"renrh ; •• tii<niU!C, " ( to toiicli or -ti-i';'- , ;mi(I '■ >,i'iii!." ^a 
 liell. ) ■\VKusn.:i;'s Dictionary. Isiiit. •' An iila.nn licii or tlu^ riiiii-i'iLi,- oJ' it lor [nirjioses of ul-j nu." 
 Nr ! rAi,,].. " St;i;i(l:Hril J^ictiMnary. " Tiic list" of tire Tocsin darinu ilie I'rtMirh Revolntioii Utii'j-' 
 ,-":mblp the uriH (tiul(^s. ii:!-; rcrMlert'-l the word almost ]m-o\ ci-iiia!. Zi:i,'.. ■•l"o):i, Eiir-yolopedisi, " 
 h'. 2ot''l. . (kUi>. v.lion tilt' lioprties of the entire world — such ;is they are -are jeopardir.ed iiv 
 
 one fif the most r;inseless aad flig.-iint invasions othuman rij;lits ever beheld : never wa^'. Tli^re 
 greater oeeasi.m to sound in sigTiitleant tones a wide-siiread warninj;' to all the (leople ot ihS -io- 
 eallfHl eivilixed nations of the earth, arrnyin;;- them as an united whole in the represfdoii <n iii^im- 
 i ive, i.>erti(,h and \vrong-. To that end ha\e I entitleil this poem '• TiiK T.)'Si,s. "" deseribec) In 
 its staii/.as. with truthful exactness, the unmerited sulVeriujis of the persecuted BfiKR Repl n- 
 (,i''S under tlie "X(j,.valile jiolicy juirsued towards them, No'r b\' the misinformed ENiiLisH Pi;.|- 
 .♦'t.j: hlit by the (lovernmcntof the latter, direeted by Joseph Chambei-lai!'. and the like : and 
 now send it forth to summon : as with the ^■oi • e of the \eritable liell : <'\ei\ freeman of every 
 clijlie to the aid of the'oppressed, ar.d the dlsc(nnliture of the designs of heartless alid jjl-aapiliti' 
 f.\ raniiy . 
 
 Pg. 1. Line 11. 
 
 "VnCi: liAiri.T. MVMN SINCINC." 
 
 Th(< sinijile but stirring' \-evses of the Transvaal " \'olkslied. '" of wliicll the Cr.st linea bave 
 been th'.iB rendered into nur tongue : 
 
 " Itiii'ht noliiy gave, vofirtrekkers brave. 
 
 Their hlooi'u "their lives, their all ; , 
 jM>r Freedom's ritil't, in Death's despite, 
 ■" The.v fought at'(luty's call. 
 
 Ho I i)urgUers, high our banner w'aves, 
 
 The standard of the Free ! 
 No foreii-'u \dke our land enslaves ; 
 
 lierereic'jieth J.Iherty ! 
 'Tis llea\eii*s command that we should stand 
 And aye defend the volk and land. " 
 And eloquently does past history testify how gallantly the lioers have obeyed the high behiia't,' 
 
 Pg. 1. Line 18. 
 
 "The KA.Mf.Ki.-DOKN TJti:?-.. ■' 
 Thi.strco, ( Aea-ia giratTa-i, so called h(;f:kus(i the giraffe : known to the Ditteh l^y the name* of 
 '• kamcci: " brnw.-f^-. on l',^. l^-ndf*!- Crtliai^-e. i-^ a Nerv cimsijicuous feature of South AfriciiU yu-cil- 
 ery. Reijuiring, as it iloc.->. hut vf'ry iittic \\':;ler it ahounds on sandy plains ; greailV i-clicviug 
 surfaeo Which, hut for its rapid growth, lair stariie and )denteous leafage, would jii-eseut a coifr^ 
 paratively barren aspect. Thick, strong, brown thorns render it formidable. 
 
Pt^ i. Line 20. 
 
 '•Kako.s.ski* Kaffju. " 
 
 hie kaross Isa petiiliiir cloak forming the principal Kaffir garment. It is iirt'iiareil intiil ti t? 
 skills of Jackals, leopariis. iiieerkats, oxen, itn. those of the bla<-k-backe(l jackal heinji, p'.-rliaps 
 most hifAhly prized, and those made fi'oul ox-hide the kind commonly met with. (ircat skill \< 
 shown by the native tailor :( nearly eVHry Kaffir, once upon a time, l)ein<;- his own artilicier i, in 
 the fabricatiim of these cloaks ; the stiff ox-hide becoming i)liable a; silk in his ileft and jn-ac- 
 tised hands. It is sewed with a large poniard-like needle, the thread used being strung sincw:. 
 The inner side is often curried with dark oc'hrtl ori'harooali i s.iys the • lini versalTra velb-r " 
 pg. 470 : but Wood. ^ " Man in Africa " ), and JJAititow, ( "Travels into the Int. of S. .\frica " >,' 
 do notc.ontirm this statement i Ki.k.mi;^^, i •' Smltherii Africa. " JHW, pg. 141, )' menti<ms such a 
 prncti(^e as in vogue amongst the Korannas. 
 
 Since the advent of the Caucasian, the far Jess fiiacOful blanket has sujterceiied the kaross a." 
 niong many of the tribes contiguous to the settlements. 
 
 Pg. 1. Line 21. 
 
 "Thk Kiu.sT or AM, CI vii,r/.Ki> i,amjh( '* 
 Siich is the claim of Englishmen, \Vho) nevertheless ]>roduce and perniit a Chamberlain to (-oni- 
 hiit acts against which humanity Jirrttest-sand by Which ,iasti(!e is oufcraged. religion iria(h; more 
 of a mockery than is usual and tki;i'! ifiivllization effectually thwarted and indefinitely iiostponcd.' 
 
 Pg. 1. Line 23. 
 
 "At a ' rKA«'l.;-I,OVIN(i ' IJI'KKjN'S IMOHI' ' CMIUSTIAN ' fo.M.MA.N'DS-" 
 
 Victoria has the prerogatory iiovver of dedlaring \Var or proclaiming jieace. When it is rcmcni- 
 bered that not a single week of peace, \Vithln the linVits of her dominions, has been rccorderl irt 
 history since her accession to the thronei the reflective reader ntay be led to doubt the sinceri- 
 of the British sovereign's f)ft-reiteratert protestations of good will to the world ! 
 
 Pg. 2f Line 1. 
 
 " BKni;t'KKi) wnrT tiik TK.*i'riN<is ok HAnnAiuc i-kidk." 
 .Many Hritish regimetlts have been sent to nleft their South African opponents; (^lad in n1or''1 
 tlian even the glaring finery worh by soiile of our lUilitia on parade ! Strange! that l.ngland so 
 lirogressive along ('ertain other lines, should be so slow to learn the U'ss«m sucMressivcly taught 
 1)> ISraddock, Kurgoyne,- Ross and Smith. It is safe to predict, that unless the Nortliumbcrlanrt 
 1 iisilier (juickly doffs his white-barred red .ia(d<et the OorrtoU) or Argyll, Highlamler bis cath dath 
 (if yellow and green, and the I^ancer his (-onsiiiiiuous " helmet " and tawdry^ glittering lacings ; 
 the (uily land the Knglisn soldier w'ill perntanently acquire from the lloers of South Africa will 
 prove to be of similar extent and character to that allotted by the Saxon llaroJd to the Xorwo- 
 giaTi Hardrada. 
 
 Predilection for gaudy (colors, shining tinsel, pompand showis a relii' of barliarism anrj as nii- 
 ijiistakeiible a token of a <leficient education annmg us at the jirescnt day, as the red pnint-ind 
 i\ory-ariulet^ of the wild Musguese, the massive and glittering rings of cop])rr of the llaloiidtii 
 or the ra^uitw-lmed costumes ami furnisliingsof China and misnamcrl MiiaJig Tlidi. 
 
P^. 2. Line 0. 
 
 " THAX HIS Wiro OOVI'yj'KP IJIK r.VHTIlIAN Sl'ATi:." 
 
 Cra'i-ius, reiniteil oiieof the wealthiest and most avaritdoiis of the iiatricians of ancient Ko nic ; 
 \vh(i li\L'il from liw li. f. to 54 H. C. Actuated by ,nTee<l ami amhition, lie persfinaliy conduct. mI 
 fin e\]ic(litTou into I'arthia — only to mtet with deser\ed and terrilile defeat from its alert ;ind 
 wily |)eo]>le. 'lV!l<en ilrisoner in the pitiless closing' of the death-trap set for him hy the tre:ich- 
 eroiis Surena, geherftl of the Parthians, and at onc-e jmt to death, his he;id and band were sent 
 to king Orodes, arrh'inji- diiriilti,' the hnptual feast of (me of that monarch's daug'hters: evokin>; a 
 disiilay of the spirit of savaf^ery latent in man in all ay:es ; the sanle cruel delight which im;>(dl- 
 ed Alunidi of Auenstein, centiiries later-^viewing the bodies of bis foemen on thi' Kield of St. 
 ■lames — to ex(daini : " The \ ery g'rass, dyed \vith the blohd of my enemies, seems a jjathway ol' ro- 
 ses ! " Their joy was heigtheneil by the sight, aiid. says K<U.i,in, ( " Ancient Hist. " 15k. xx; .\rt. 
 2. ), "'It was reported that orders were given to pour molten g(dd into the mouth of the head, to 
 reproacli the ins;itiable thirst Crassus always had for that metal. " I'H'TAKcli, ( " Life of M. A. 
 Crassus, " Tonson's edit. 1727, v. pg. 117.), only tells us that a farc^e was performed with tlie 
 bead for its subject, by the triumphant nobles of Hyr;>des the king. 
 
 The (lareer of Crassus mightserve to typify the ]>resent, and j)erbaps foreshadow the future, 
 bourse of ICngland and its probable outeoirte. High in station, rich beyond a dream, holding the 
 rod of \ast empire ; yet covetous of fresh honors, greater treasure, an<l nlore exteiided domiii^ 
 Ion : he dissiiiated his wealth and destroyed himself, in ^•ainly endeavoring to ett'ec.t the useless 
 Kidijug;ition of a l)ra\e and hardy people guiltless of olfensei but jjossessed of temjjting territory 
 and accredited with affluence ! 
 
 Pg- 2. Line L 
 
 "THIC RIOM 'WA rBItSHANl). " 
 
 The Witwatersrand, the great ^o\i\ field of South Africa,--and one of the causes of the shame* 
 f ul persecution to wiiich the inhabitants <if the Transvaal, ( within whose boundaries they sire 1o» 
 (■■ateil ), have l)een subjected by (4reat Britain : lies between the .^lagaliesberg range, ( X. )■, and 
 liie \'aal Ixi'.cr, ( S. ), and extends from Klerksdorji, ( W. ), to Heidelberg. ^ K. ) 
 
 Tlic ■' KmikI " is unicpie in consisting of auri1%rous, pebbly, conglomerates of sediihentary ori- 
 gin : found in the priuieval gneiss and granite rocks. A titaniferous'band of red (piart/. and 
 m:ignctii' oxide of iron, is a remarkable freiiuent accomiianyntent and, therefore, ■indic.at<u- of. 
 the iu-c(-ious metal, which i.s present in no large crystals ; neveras water-worn nuggets ; but in 
 an in \ isible state in veins associated with pyrite and silica. I), de IjAr.N.vV-. ( Eng. & Mug. Jour- 
 nab 1^117, Ixiii, ^igs i<M, (;r>:». ) The seams of ore vary from three inched uji to even four feet in 
 thickness, writes W. Y. Camimu'.lj,. ( ibid. Ixiv, pg. KC. \ who gives irtu(=H interesting data. 
 
 The first ti\'e stamps were operated in 18S7, at the (dftse of 18f)o, about 1801) were Working, and 
 lip to l.s<)7 as many as -ISIU had been built. Amalgumatirth, chloriiiatirtn, cyaniiHng aiid leaching 
 nf -limes ar(> cni]do.\(d to e>;tract the gold, most of the labor being performed by Kaffirs, Hot- 
 tentots and oUier •■ hljok bny< " who receive small wages and are poorly fed and lodged. 
 
 "VVhou it is known that the gold mir.ed in 1K9T was valued at »ie,180..'H5, and in ten months f)f 
 18;)8, S 00(288,11)^ 5 the desire of, the Uriitsb to seize these milles will be readily undersi.iod ! 
 
Pg. 
 
 Line S. 
 
 " I'.r'i' iiv cAi si-;s as imii-knt, ■i'hi''. iiaikicd ov r;A' i; : ot('. 
 Alici'rnt ^Timaiu'.es were clierisluMl between Hi e I'.ritisii ;niil I'leinish, liel'orc I';!l\v;ii-<1 IM.:\1' 
 linl Viimseir wltli tlioUtU>r in l;!;;.S rgiirst France ; r.'v,iv( il .i{;;riii wtier,, in l.ur. lie sou^hl t i 
 inipiise the nile i)f hiA suti over tliein iirid faileil to aiM-nni|)l isti 'iiis (h'sig-ii. In l.iVi:, sii>s !'"i!iii?'.-' 
 SAK-r, ( " Clin.nieU's:. " vol. i. (■!!. (■.:xcix. i. tliey fo;;^iit wlieiiever tliey met on tlie seurj. 
 
 Tlie Kn}.;,lish. wlio, in tlie reign of strong-willed Klizal-etli, assisted the l)\iti-li in the resistanee 
 tluM made to the eneroaehnients of S]iani-ih ]iower ; leaving. howe\er. owing to tiie niileiics-iot' 
 the soldiery to the women and the iiir.onsideni te brnsiuieness of their eonnnunders, any hut 
 endearing- memories on theirde])nrture ; afterwards grew gTadiially jealousof tin ir commercial 
 suiu'eniaey over thenKjn the seas ; nor did the f (ollander.-; reg:ird a dangerous ri\;!i more favor 
 alilx . Suddenly, in ICl!), the " massacre of Amboyna " oc,,!iiri-ed ; ('apt '^o^^■erson and nine more 
 lOngiislnnen falling \i(ttims to the enmity of their !>ntch neighbors, who had taken the island 
 from the I'ortiiguese in 1(;()7, monopolized the lucrative (dove trade of those parts, and natural 
 ly regarded the liritish, who thought they ought to have a share in the tia«1e, as interlopers. 
 
 Torture was employed to extorta confession froul these ur\f(n-tunates, of a rather improbable 
 l)lot to seize tlie castle ; a circumstance further ir.ccnsiiiK the p('pnlace when the news reacli- 
 eil Kngland— although th.Ht horrible practii'e was not abrdishcd hi the latter country until ITO'.'. 
 and the dreadful " peine forte et liare " was actually resortcil to in iTHl. 
 
 l>i:\ oi-.N. in the ebiloj^iie of hi,« tragedy, '- Amboyna, or the Cruidties of the Dutch to the ICih 
 glisli MendiantSi "( Works, edit, of iTllo. noI. iii. jig. 4f>V. ). written in 1(iT:i ; strikingly portraya 
 the feeling prevalent to>Vard the Hollanders, and the en\y excited by their Asiatic possessioiis i 
 " So VVo\ild our I'oet lead you on this Day ; 
 Shewing your tiu-tnr'i'l leathers in his i'Uiy. 
 To one well-born th' Alfront is worse, and more, ' 
 
 When he' sabiis'd and bafHed bv a Hoor : 
 AVith ab ill (irace the Dutidi their Mischiefs do, 
 
 'l"hey'\e botJi Ill-nature and lU-maniiers too. 
 \\'el] ina\' the\', b )ust thenisel\ es an ancient Nation, 
 l'\ir they were bred ere Manners were in l<'ashion : 
 And their new Coinnion-we-'.l t)i has set 'em free, 
 Only fi-om Ifonour and CiviHty. '' 
 Farther on : 
 
 " As Cato did his Afriid^ l-'ruits disjilay. 
 
 So we i)efore y<U!r ('iyes cheir Indii's la.v. " j 
 
 The Dut(di (Toverninent ]ironi)itly ajiologized foran outrage they probably bad no hand in.anrl 
 could not. in that <'.ase, have prevented ; l)at the lOnglish coald ncicher forget no/- forgive, 
 
 Little resi)e(tt was shown to the (.'(unmonwealth b> the Dutch ; so the CromWell uu-,n aimed a 
 di-astrousblovv at Holland's commer<-.e h\ the pa:.-;age of the Navigition Act, foi-bidding ivnpor- 
 ta-cion save by .shijis of Britain or of tlie countries produ<'ing the goods. 
 
 Matters under su(-h conditions grew worse, and ->vhcn, ( .\la,\ bi.'iji, tue lavnnus Van Tromp sailed 
 irit:i the Channel and declined t i lower bis topsails in defer-ence to llie f^ngjish (O.or.- of i.lake, 
 tlure was a furious engagement, terminated by the withdravVal ()f the Dutch, 
 
 \\ar followed, J'.lake was defeated at first. Van Tromp •• sWept tihe chop< oi the, Channel," en- 
 raging all l-:ngland by fastening .-i bi-oo;u to the rrfisthead of his Hag ship. l-.ut Hekle F.)rtimo 
 >!';l'icd, the Diit<-Ii su/fered greatly in Ihrec n-a val battles i in Lhe last fif w'hicli i\\v brave VaU' 
 Tr.iiuii was killed. I'eac-e wa-; made 
 
fft IfiCA fhe Ouke of York seized soille Oliint'a syttknifents of the liiitrh, tht> llvtter iiinii^dlattf- 
 ly cajitnredsnnie Knglirih uiercdiuntmen ; \\4r was ducUred and then ensued a series of " battles 
 of tlie giants " on the seas ; strewing them -rtith splintered wrecks and pnuring-into their shot- 
 surged waves the wast'<'d Itlood of thousands of gallant men ; both sides tightilig with the doj;- 
 ged o))stina<y ''hfirarteHiifijivthe two races, soirietinies. i as off f.owestoft, ICHD, and The J)owns, 
 IwiG ), for days, and rtnaity sl^eering olT so • rii)ple<l as to be unable to se(v,ire the fruits of \-ictory, 
 And this strife •' for hu provocation'" to use t)ie words of K\eiyn, •• hiit that the I>uteh ex^- 
 ceeded us in commerct* and inrtuitrie and iii ail tilings liut envy. " 
 
 In icr,'') Che Knglish fleet forced an entran<'K into the neutral port of I'.ergen, only tn cSsperU 
 ence a most disgraceful defeat ■ tlien in lOtjO their oppontmts \Vere t^irifibly beaten in tl>i' < lian^ 
 nel : next year, however, seeing the Medway tlloc.ked by l)e Kuyter, shipping in a vast ('oiit!as= 
 rajtion in that river and the Thames, Sheerness fortirtcations destroyetl.'aild vast mischief rloni:, 
 Anotlier hollow treaty of peac.e resulted ; treacherously broken )r!' the atteuijit of Holnicsi di- 
 rected by Charles II. ( then po.sing as a mediator between the I'\-ench ail'd I'utidi ), to se!;fte tlie 
 rich Smyrna tleet, — an inglorious failure. The drawn battle of Soleb:iy a terrific aH-da.\ iiH'bti 
 took 'place that year, i' 1072 ), then in three engagements, I)e Ruyter worsted tlie allied li'rencli 
 and ivnglish navies and compelled a hasty ces.sation of hostilities. 
 
 in 1T7.S Holland was one of the lir.st of the nations to extend a friendly hand to tlie strugglJnfj[ 
 patriots of the new-born United States — an act of magnanimity temjiorarily (• isting lier all licr 
 c<d<)nial possessions and never properly appreciated by the peojde she su)ip<irtcd at such a crit- 
 ical jieriod. During the Krench war, in IrfOtJ, those restored territories were again taken by (Jroat 
 Britain. .\n exjiedition involving the loss of much money and many lives to Kngland, termina- 
 ting inelfectively In lS(lT,an<l the forced sale of the Cape by Holland for onl.\ S l'.,iMm.(i(H) ; brings 
 our condensed nan-ative of the embroilments of the two colonial alid couimerciarrivals to a 
 couclusioh. ■ 
 
 Pg. 3. Line 9. 
 
 '•Fivi'; sconr. am> i-ivi'. vfaks aho, tuk l)ri*')l At CAric Th^Vn.'' 
 No permtiuenc settlement at the Cape was elTected by the Heet sent there 1<<- Holljiiid in llvm •■ 
 rior by the lOngHsh who endca\-ored to defeat the object of their voyage by takingTosscssioii of 
 the country in the nam a of .Jam is the First, a little prior to theii' arrival. Tlii-s iie\i'r rcii vcd' 
 otticial recognition. A few'Iiritisii 'convicts had been placeil on l{obben Island in the )>ay in 
 
 li'14 ; but were soon killed or driven away. Though neglect to lastingly occupy a (Miiiiitiy does 
 riot necessarily nullify the clairnsof a Power to .scnereignty o\er it. as ruled by Mr .Malum dur= 
 iiije the Dolagoa Bay arbitration pro(H'edings in 1x12, when lOngland was seeking to dis])osscss 
 J.'ortugalon the streiigth of certain deeds to \*hiirh ('apt. Owens, ( while osterr^ibly sur\e>ing in 
 the reg4\iij by I'ortugruese permission! ), had induced natives to alVix the-S'-i^arks ; omissi<.ij.(if 
 legal claim '.i.'istlli»d \>>i l-tii'.itKcK wheii, under the ausidces of the Dutch India Couipany, on 
 A))ril (J. IC.'n'j he fonhiled the tirst maiiiland colony. In eight years thi reafter. about '-i miles of 
 landhacroeen accjiiired — in a decide more, all the peninsula. .\n(l all ii\ 'ri!i';Ai\ ! ••'Ihe j];ir-- 
 eliase appears to ha\e been (piite a.s complete as that contdudeil between William I'min and the 
 North .Americans. " Moodiic. In t7S(l the <,>uaina;c, ; the aborigines ). had retii'cd licToie 
 t.iie settlers as far as the Crcat I'isli Ki \cr, a clnnge clfected with \i'ry little oi' llir shocking i-rii' 
 felly disgracing the coloiii/.atioii ot .\ti*<- i;n;j,land by tlie lOigllsh, 
 
Pg. 1. Line 20. 
 
 '• Kaiu)S.si:u Kai'KJu." 
 
 'tlie kafoss Is a peculiar cloak forming the principal KalTir garment. It is prerlarefl ffoM tfc^ 
 ftkilis of jackals, leopartls, meerkats, oxen, &(•. those of the bla(:k-l)a(;ke(l jackal being, perhaps 
 most highly prized, and those made from ox-hide the kind commonly met with, (ireat skill i-" 
 shown liy the native tailor ; (nearly every Kalflr, on(;e upon a time, being his own artirtciRr i, iil 
 the fabri(^ation of these cloaks ; the stii'V ox-hide becoming pliable a; silk in his deft ami prac^ 
 tised hands. It is sewed with a large poniard-like needle, the thread used being stnmg sinew. 
 
 llie inner side is often curried witli dark ochre ofciharcoal, ; .says the •' Universal Traveller " 
 pg. 470 : but Wood, (, " Man in Afri<^i " ), and IS.vituow, ( " Travels into the Int. of 8. Africa " ), 
 do notconlirm this statement i Fleming, ( " Southern Africa, " imi, pg. 141, )' mentions such a 
 practice as in vogue amongst the Korannas. 
 
 Since the advent of the Caucasian, the far less graceful blanket has superceded the karnss a, 
 mong many of the tribes contiguous to the settlements. 
 
 Pg. », Line 2\. 
 
 "ThK I<^ri«ST DF .4IjL rIVII-IZKI) l.ANH.S. " 
 
 Su(;h i.s the claini of bjhglishufen. Who, nevurtheless produce and permit a Chamberlain to (Com- 
 mit acts against which humanity protests aild by which justice is outraged; religion made more 
 of a mockery than is usual and f ihik, civilization elfectually thwarted and indefinitely postponed; 
 
 Pg. 1. Line 23. 
 
 "At a ' PKACKM.OViNii ' (jtkKjN's iMtJST 'chkistian' commands-" 
 Victoria has the prerogatory jidwer of declaring war or proclaiming peace. When it is remem- 
 bered that not a single week of peace, withifl the limits of h(^r,dominions, has been reconled in 
 history since Her accession to the* throne, the retiecttive reader may be led to doubt the sinceri- 
 of the Britis^i sijtferfeign's oft-reiterated protestations of good *i'ill to the world ! 
 
 Pg. 2, Line 1. 
 
 " PfTlDKCKEn WITH THK TlSAlTINriS OF r,A\iP,AniC I'KIDF.. " 
 
 Many Kritish regimeii'feM have been sent to meet their South African opponeiiits. clad in nlor<i 
 than even the glari'ng- finery -^Wh by some of our ihilitia on parade ! Strange ! that England scf 
 jirogressive alc^itg certain otfa'er tine.s, should be so slow to learii the lesson su(!(^essively taught 
 V)y Braddocki 15urgoyne, Uoss and Smith. It is safe to predict, that unless the NorthuiTlUerlanrt 
 1 nsilier quickly rtoffs his white-barred red jacket the Gordon, or Argyll, Highlander his cath dath 
 of yellow and greeh,' and: the Lancer his conspicuous " helmet " and tawdry, glittering Ifleiiigs i 
 the only land the Knglisn soldier \Vill permanently acquire from the IJoers of South Africa will 
 prove to be of similar extent and c.hara;<:ter to that allotted by the Saxon Harold to the >Jorwe- 
 gian Hardrada. 
 
 I 'redilection for gaiuly colors, shining tinsel , p'rttrtp and show is a re1h'. of barbarisnl and as nn- 
 niistakeable a token of a del1<'ient education among us at the present day, as the red paint and 
 ivory armlets of the wild Miisgucse. the massive and glittering rings of copper of the Italondaj 
 t)v thil rainbow-hucd c(.)stuincs and furni.-ihingsof China and niisnanicd Aluang Thdi; 
 
Pg. 2. Line 
 
 '■Tii.w ms -wild crtNK'rKi) Tin-; PAiri'iriAN StatI';.'* 
 ('nissii.H, t'eiiiited (inciif tlif -A-oalthie^t and nnvst avHrii'inns of the ])atricTans of aTifient RpTrfe-; ■ 
 Vvlio livei.l rrom lo-; 11. C. Ut rA };. C . At tuated by t^reeil .iiid ainbition, he persoxialiy (•oiiiliic.t.il 
 an exjiT'ditioji iiUn rarthia — only to meet with deser-ini and terrilile defeat from its alert nn,(l 
 \vily pc'oiile. 'I'a'ien jjriaoner in t!ie pitiless ciosia'i' of the death-traj) set for him hy the treach- 
 erous Snrena, general of the rarthiahsi and at rinee ]iut to death, his head and hanil were sent 
 to Uinji,' Orodes, arri\ini;- durin<i- tlie nuptiial feast of one of tha.t mrtna.ryirs dauijliters; evokin^a 
 (lisida> of the spirit of sa\agery latent in man in all ay;es ; the same (-ruel rh'iight whicai imjJeH- 
 rii .Miincli of Anenstein, centuries later^-\iew7hg- this bodies of his foenien on the Fiebl of St. 
 ■lame J — to exclaim : " The x'ery grass, dyt.d With the blood of my enenwes, seems a pathway of ro^ 
 Be i : " 'I'heir joy was heigthened by the sight, anil, says Roi.lix. ( " Ancient. Hist.." Hk. xx. Ar,t. 
 -'. ). "It was reported that orders were given to pour inolten gold into tlie mcmth of the head, to 
 reiiroa<'h the in.satiable thirst C'rassus always had for that metal. " Pi.ttakcii, (," Life of .\i. A: 
 t'rassuri. '■ Tonson's edit. 1727, v. pg. 117.), only tells lis that a farce was i)erforme(i with tile 
 hc'id foe its subject, by the triuiu]ihaut hollies of Hyrodes the king. 
 
 The <'areer of ('rassu* might serve to typify the i)reseht, and perhaps foreshadow the future, 
 t'ourseof r;ngland anil itsprobabie outconie. High in station, rich beyond a ilrfci m./ioldiiig the 
 rod of \ast emjiire ; yet covetous of fresh honors, greater treasure, and uiore exti'iided ilomiu- 
 ion : he dissi])ated his wi^alth and destroyed himself, in \ainly endea\oring to etl'ect tlie useless 
 Subjugation of a bra\e and hardy jieople guiltless of offense, but possessed of tempting territory 
 and accredited with aflluence ! 
 
 Pg- 2. Line 1. 
 
 " TlIF. RICH 'WATK!tSl!ANI>. " 
 
 The Witwatersrand. the great gold held of South Africa. — ami one of the causes of the shaine- 
 i'ul iiecsecution to wliicli the inhabitant.s of the Trans\'aal, ( within whot'.e boundaries they are lo- 
 ca'.cd 1, lune been .subj 'etc 1 iiy (;.-e:it ISritiin ; lies between the .Migili^sijerg range, ( X. i, anil 
 tlu' \:ial i;iver, ( S. i. ami extends from iClerK'sdori), f W. I, to Heidelberg.. K. ) 
 
 Tlic " K;tud " is unii|ue in consisting of aurifcioiis, iiebbly, <-onglomerates of sedimentary ori- 
 gin : found in tlie iiriiue\al gneiss and granite rocks. A titaniferous band of red. quartz and 
 magnetic oxide oC iron, is a reaiarkalde frequent a-companyment and, therefore, indicator of 
 tlic pre. -ions metal, ivhich is ])resent in no large cr>stals : neveras water-worn nuggets : but in 
 iiii invisible state in xeins associated «ith pyrite and silica. L. ile L.mnav, ( Kng. >S: .>lng. Joiir- 
 na.l, 1S!I7, Ixiii, ])gs t;:;i. r.,')'.l. i The sea uis of ore \ary from three im-hes u}i to c.en four feet in 
 thickness, writes AV. \ . (' ami'uvaa.. i ibid. lxi\ , pg. :i(;. ), v.iio gives much interesting data. 
 
 Tile lirst li\e stanii>s were operarcd in issf, at the close of Is'.ii). about isilii were working, ami 
 np to l.s;i7 as many as -ls;;l had been budt. Amalgamation, chlorination. cyaniiling and leachiiig 
 01 slimes are employed to extract tlie gobi, most of the laiior being performed by Kallirs, iiot- 
 tcT.tots and other •' blaclc boys " who receive small wages ami are jioorly feil and lodged. 
 
 \'^;-..';] it is knov.-n that tlie gold mined in 1S'.I7 was \ulucil at .-s 4r.,l (;!/,:>-!,"., a.inl in leu moiUbs of 
 i-j.v,, ;f C>:i,::ss,ly:j ; the desire of the firiltsh to seize lliese mines vi1l he rcadil> understood '. 
 
'i^g. 
 
 Lhie 5. 
 
 " r>i';r 15V <'Arsi':s as roiicxi', riiK ii aiiivj) i>v ',:\<-i\ '. fti'. 
 ;Aiii-'"iit !;'ru\a;5ci-'s were clu'i'isbfil lictwoi-ii Ttic ilvi tish ami 1 li/misJi, iH-rcn- ICilwnnl Ill,.it1- 
 lir'i hini.sf'li' v,-Uli tJiolatler in l:!:'.s ajiainst l-'rance : reviwii :iji,ain w'neii, in I:;i5 tie si>ii;;lit tt' 
 impose tlie rule ■■'i' lii-. .son (i\cr tlif.n ami faileil tn :icc.'.}ni!)l!f.h !)is d^'iign. In V.',12. says i'Viiois- 
 SA i;r, ( " ClironirU-s, " vol. i. cl!-. rcxrix. i. the>- fought whenever they met on the seas. 
 
 The Knjiiish. who, in the reign of .strong-willed Klizabetli, assisted the Dutch in the resistancf? 
 theyniHde to the encroachments of Hjianish power : lea.\ing. h(.iwe',er. owing to the riideiiessof 
 the soldiery to the wonien an<l the ihconsiderate brusqnene.ss of their c.omma.nders, any but 
 endearing- memories oil their dejiarture ; afterwards grew gradiuilly jealous of their coiniuercial 
 supremacy o\-er theui on the seas ; nor did the Hollanders regard a dangerous ri\al more fa\or-' 
 ciiilv . Sudilenly, in iciii, the •' mas.sacre of .-Vmboyna " (x^eurred I ('apt Tower.^on and nine mori? 
 Isngiishmeh fulling \ ictims to the enmity of their Dutch neighliors. who h.ad taken the island 
 from the Portuguese !n ir.oV, monopolized tlie I;icr.iti\e clo\e li'ade of those parts, and iiamral- 
 ly regarded the I'.ritisli, who thought they oiigiir to ha\e :i share in the trade, as interlopers. 
 
 Torture was emj>loyed to e.xtorta coufession from tliese unfortunates, of a rather imjiroliahle 
 plot to sei7e the castle : a circumstance further incensing the jiopulace when t!ie news reach- 
 ed KngJand — although that horrible practice was not abidisliedi in the latter country until ITDK, 
 ajid. th.e dreadful " jieine forte et dure " was actually resiu'ted to in iT4(). 
 
 Dijvin'-.N. in the e!>ilogue of his tragedy; •• Anib'ynii, or tlie Cruelties of the Dutch to the En = 
 glisli :\ierchants, "( Works, edit, of IT.'ift, \o\. Hi. jig. 45G ), written in l(;7.j ; strikingly portravi^ 
 the feeling prevalent toward the lloUamlers, anil the envy excited by their Asiatic jiossessions i 
 •' ^^o would orir I'oet lead you on this Day : 
 Shewing your tortur'il Fathers in his I'lay. 
 Til one widl-born th' Alfront is worse, and more. 
 
 When he' sabusM and baffled bva lioor ; 
 With an ill (irace the Dutch their':vlischief.s do, 
 
 They'\eboth Ill-nature and Ill-manners too. 
 Well may they, boast thenise]\es an ancient Nation, 
 K(U' they weie bred ere .Manners were in Fashion : 
 And their new Couimon-wealth lias set 'em free, 
 Only from Honour and Civility. " 
 Fartlier on : 
 
 " .\s Cato dill his Afiic.k Fruits display, 
 
 So we before your F.yes their indies lay. " 
 The Dutidi (ioN'ernment promptly .-qiologizeil for an outrage they 'probably had ,nohand in, and 
 could not. in th.it case, ha\e jirevented : but tlie Fnglish could mithi r joiget r.or r.irgi',.", 
 
 Little re-,i>ect was bhown to the <'ommoi:v>-ealth b> the Dutcii : so th'- < Vonnvell nwn aimed a 
 (li.sastrous blow at llolland's commerce b^• the pas.'i:(gc of Ihc Xa \ igMtion .\ct, cojoiddiug impor- 
 tation save h\ shiiis oi" lirittiin or of tl\e counti-ies jiroduc.hig tlic goc-tis. 
 
 .Matters under such ■•oM.Ulions grew wor.-e: and when,( .Mayli^r.J,, the famous \ui) Ti-cmii sailed 
 into the Channel a?nl lieidimil to lowcr his topsails in flefcrence to tlie .'Migiish coir.r or i,:aiNC; 
 th( '-e was a furious engagement, teiniinafed by tlie ^vithdrawai of the Dutch. 
 
 \Var i'ollov,ed, I'd-i'lcc wis ilcfeated at first, '\'an Troniji ■' swept the choiis oi' the <ha;in(d," en- 
 raging .ill lOnglaml by I'aslcnjnga b:'ooui to tlic masthead of his iia.;' siiii!. r.iil ,'cl;i,' 1", rtunc 
 .sbiftei!, the Dnt'-h siiHcrcd greatly iu Ihrce n.ival l)attles .; in the last of wliieli the br,-i\e \ap. 
 Trouiji was killed. Tcace was made. 
 
.in It'lU thti rni!;e of Viu-k ,si;i/eil •mihh- (J'.iinca ?!ettleineilt^( of the Dutch, the latter iiinn^iHiUit?-- 
 ly .■liplurfcd A.iiTiti English (nurciiiiiiim,':! ; wax- wa^ Ut:oiaitid asivi than ■■iisaad a siries of ■■ battlv.s 
 of the giants " un tlie sens ; stfev,'ing them with S])liiUerett wrecks and p da ring into their shot- 
 surged waves the wasted hhjod cl th(msands of gallant men ; both .sides ligliting with tlie dog^ 
 ged oljstinauy chararteri'/.ing the two races, souietimes, ^ as off L.jwcstoft, IWir), and The Downs, 
 li;t;o ), for days, and iiiially sheering off so ■ rii)pled as to be unai)le to si.^eure the fruits of \ i.;tory. 
 
 And tills strife -'for no provocation," to use the words of ICveiyn, •' hut tliat tiie l>utch ex- 
 ceeded us in cnnnneree and Industrie and. in all tilings but envy. " 
 
 In 1( :(;.'■> tlie Kngiisli fleet forced an entrance into the neutral port of IJergen. (mly to experi- 
 enre a most disgraceful defeat ; then in KJtiO their ojjponents were terrioiy i^eaten in the Chan- 
 nel-; next year, however, seeing the .Vledway blo(dced by I)e Uuyter, shipping in a vast conilag^ 
 rati<in in tliat river and ilie Tliames, bheerness fortitU-ation."? de.^troyed, and -.-ast mischief done^ 
 
 Another Indlow treaty of jieace resulted ; treacherously broken by the attempt of Hnluies, di- 
 rected b,\- Charles II. { then posing as a mediator between the French and D'.itch i, to seize tiie 
 Tich Smyrna fleet, -"an inglorious fail.ire. The drawn battle of Sidebay a terrific all-day tight, 
 took ,p]a(te that year, ( 1672), then in three engagements, l)e R\iyter worsted the allied I'^-ench 
 !tnd r'ngli.^h na\ies and conipialled a hasty cessation of hostilities. 
 
 In ITT^f U(dland was one fif the rtrae of the nations to extend a friendly hand to the sti'uggling- 
 patriots of the new-ljorh United States— an act of magnanimity temporarily c.<)sting hsr all her 
 colonial possessions afld never properly appreciated by the i)eople she suiijjorted at su(di a (Tit- 
 ical period. During' tb« French war, in 180G, these restored territm-ies were again taken by Great 
 Britain, An expedition in volxing- the loss of much motley and many lives to England, termina- 
 ting inelTectively In lH(>7,and the forced sale of the CAp-i by Holland for only $ (!,l)0ll;0(iO ; bring.-t 
 our (Condensed narrative of the erabrollinents of the tWo ('olonial and ('(unmercial rivals to a 
 conclusion. 
 
 Pg. 3. Line 9. 
 
 " FlVK SCoHK ami I'lVK VKARS A(;o, THE Iiin-CH ,^-i' CAPVj Tdavn. " 
 
 \o iivermanent settlenicflt at the Ga}>e was filfected by the fleet sifSitt there by Holland in i62n ;■ 
 nor liy the lOnglish who endea vore(V to dWeat the object of their voyagje by taking possession of 
 the country in 'the n:i]i;4',(it' .James tlK3 l'^irst,a little prior to their arrival. This never reeeiveri 
 iithcial recognition A few British convicts had Ueen placed on Uolirfeen Island in the hay in 
 
 l(-t4 : but were st.Kui kiJ^i.'d or driven away. Though neglect to lastingly occuipv a couiitry does 
 not'n'ecessarily nullify the claims of a rbwer t<) so\ ereignty over it, as ruled by .Mc Mahon dur' 
 iu,g~tiie Delagoa Bay arbitration proce'eflifig-s in 1S72, 'when England was seeking to dispossesj* 
 I'ortiigal on the strength of certain deeds to whieh ('apt. Owens, ( ^vhile ostesJsihly survey ing itt 
 t'lie regionally Portuguese permission 1 ), hiid induced natives to MV\ their n>arks ; omission of 
 legal claim justified \ aS Rikhkoic when, under the auspices of fne Dnich India Tonipany, oil 
 April li. I(j.^i2, he founded the hrst mainland colony. In eiyht y»iars thereafter, about H miles of 
 land had been acquired— in a decade more, all the peninsula. And all isv tkkatv ! -"rhe pur^ 
 chase api)ears to have been (p.iite as coniiplete as that concluded between William I'enn and the 
 North Americans. " MoooiK. In iTSd the (.KiaiiptiV, ( the aborigines ), bad retired before 
 the settlers as far as the (ircat Fish Kis-er, a cbT.ige effected with very little (d' the shocking ( ru-- 
 elty disgracing the colonizatioh of New I'.ngland 1>\- the l-higlish. 
 
Pg. 3, Line 21. 
 
 •'Tina I'oiiMi'-ii A Ki:vr r.i.ir. " 
 
 1 l.a\c tal. mail imssililr <-ii!-i- to iisci-rtiiiii Hie tjiilli or fiilsiry of this oflH-oiiti-fril sliiti'TTi.'nl „ 
 ^\i!li till' rcsiili Piut it is satisi'actoi-ily xciilicd. ^ Vlii' ('n])V luitrh, loii^- chaiiiifi; mi(!t.'r tbo muj,c!i 
 iai rule of their j;d\fniiiu']it. rose in ri-l/cilioii (liirilig- 17'.i-l ; lU'ifated rbj- troojis : lifhy-anuert'CltUe 
 CoviTiior ill tlir castlr. ami iiroclainiecl a rcimblii'. lint an l^ii^ilisli Ih-rt riUcrfv.l ihc harbor 
 oil .iiinc bifh. IT'.i.'.. and, iMii|i..\i-cnMl only li.\' th(-' aiUliorlry of tht^ I'rin.-c of Oraiigf,' i at that time 
 (li'lios.d Vi\ ]"!clii'ii'ni aiiil in iuiiiotcnt I'xiU' ). bunlcil soUliprs iindcr lire on Sept toth.. sciziiig the 
 roiiriiry \\itb.(Mn .'\(n liic |irc\ aliMH-c of war to justlfv tlu-ir d isrepntaiyic |.irocodiirf I 
 
 Tliouiiii |l,,vs(■^;~i,.|. ^^;•.^ taki-n in the naninof ()n.\ Nci-:, yet two \ ears after the J'eaee of Amiens 
 we lind the i.eojile relea.sed troni their aliet;ianee to— his lliii i ANN !<■ majesty I 
 
 Pg. 3. Line 17. 
 
 »• ASI'AliK t'ltl^M Tin: idriVCO.N THAT f.KlHITIl 11' l'"i: A NOI!, "" etC. 
 
 The izreat 1'"rcn<-h IteNoliition ; the outbrealc of tlie Ifin^-siilVerin';- anil de,si>ise(l pmlftariat a- 
 ^-.linst the insuiiiHirtalde desjiotisni of the aristoeraey anil eeelesiasties : i-yelon1e in the brevity 
 aiid destnietivcness of its eiidnranee : a|ii):!!linu' in eonsidera tion of the deplorable sai'Titiee of 
 Li. 111.111 liie aiteiidin;^ its ineluet iide )iro;j,iN'ss : Imt liii-oneei vably benitie*'nr in itrt far-reaidriiift- 
 ii|ili.!tii;eiii: ol' r!ie masses and n in i lien tier, of Uie kk; ii rs of man. 
 
 A siinijiU- re\olution will inevitably take phu'e in this country, when the .■^o-ealled " e.ommon 
 jieojde '■ rendered more intelliireiit i by the seed sown broadeasr over theliind by Carnegie and 
 sueUashe, in the form of |uibUe lilii-aries to tlieriiin of their posterity : ,i;eriniiiating- and matiir- 
 iuy;), awaken to the realisation o| the fact, ninv so little heeded : that the eoneern of one is the 
 eonee'rn of Al.l.. and aei in eiie!-;ifrir and nnsidfish IMUN. 
 
 Pg. 4. Lines 5 and 6. 
 
 •' As IT FAKKt) WITH riir-. VOriTl's. V.'UnS!'-, All ■.M1-:\TW*' * * ('ATHA-\-'S I,KAHNKI1 I'KlNfKSS." 
 
 The aniiablc yoiitli. Medoro ; wounded while eon \eying the body of his dead patron Croni 
 the hatth'-tield. and suoeored at the point of death by the linely .Vngeliea of Cathay, i (-hina >. 
 ••Soon as Angelica witli sad survey 
 
 Keheld the \oiith,,who jiaU' ami' wounded lay. * * * 
 Tlien to her mind she eali'd whate'er before, 
 
 111 Inflia tanglit, siie Icnew of healing lore, * •* * 
 Onee in a lovely mead with seareliing \iew ; 
 
 A ]ilant she met \vIiose \irtues well she knew ; * * * 
 Tliis o'er his bre.'ist she ijlieds with .sov'reign art, 
 
 And hatlies with gentle touch the wounded part : 
 The wouml such virtue from the juice derives 
 
 .At (ine<' the blood i.s staun'cb.'d, tlie youth nnives. " 
 
 .AKiosTO. ( " Orlandf) Fnrioso. " Hoole's tr. 179!), hk. xix, pg. :ier^ et .sor(. ) 
 
 Pg. 4. Line 8. 
 
 •■■With Okii.oan qcicknicss. " 
 Orilo, < Hoole ), or Orrilo, i l.'ose— lluggins ). was the giant robber with wboiii many a ehampi((ri 
 
 
I'-ug-ht In yuiu ; u ina^ic h^ir aun.l Hi. flowing l..i,ks jiiftlnt;- hl.u with nc.ro.nantlr uo^u.y to lu. ,1 
 niN wiinndsand rt-ninte eai-b ^evri-fd ji'irt, 
 
 '• Willi backward stroke lu' cuts liini now in twain. 
 And. witl! his lu.-nd.iers iiieccnical strews the iilai'-i 
 As olc (,)i-i!o liids till' ])art unite. 
 And woudrons stinids witli new reco\ered niit;-ht. '" 
 
 Ai:iosrii, ( !(](■, eit. bk, xv, j)g. i;w ). 
 
 Pg. 4, Line 9. 
 
 " (.>ri N(i ; Wrni a imiii vnh a iiiiaiunt s ii ami, " 
 Many .u,-eons .-(..ort to the knife when lar less d.aslie n, ensures would sueeeed as wM -in 
 "innerous eases, hetUT. The same may be said or < ;overn,nfnt> as re-,r,ls theM- ireaument of 
 111.' van.|u,sluMl ; they lack as yet sutlieivnt knowled-e to enable Lheu, r,,exlul,ir rbat forbear- 
 anee. that kindness, that healin- taet amid an unwaverin- liruiness. whirh soothes the inllua'ed 
 uu<l eankerin- woun.ls of the newly eonquere.l, and would ultimattlv e.iire bv virtue of the'l nVi- 
 n\\i\ !M.u lu: exhaled b\ theui, ten]iiered by .] rs r |oi:. 
 
 Heavily .dosed the ban. I of Kngland on the (ape ISoers during t.bo.4e thirty wearin.. boneless- 
 years between ISW; and ls^;,; : Nearly all the oblen rights and ,-uston,s Were swei,r-,w;n witll 
 nn-onsMlerateabrui.tuessandinjudieiousri-or. What Russia is aCtemjitin- in I'.iiand •* wlnt 
 <;.T,nany )s strivin- to aeemnidish in Alsa.'e-L,>rraine ; rooA v-Kn-kind endea v<.red' to do- 
 TUKN. The homes of the settlers were subjeeted to a hateinl systeu, of ineessant es|,i,,n-i..-e • ' 
 o\,u--walous and meddling- missionaries entertaim-d and reporti^.l to the Caiie, ..r the ilomj ("joy- 
 erumcut the merest runu.rs of erucH-y to the uati\ e s]a\ es ; so that, in IxU-f there were not 
 Ine tamihes resident, )n or near the frontier, but luid seen .nie op uiore of their incuubers arres- 
 ted and im|.rrsone<l on ebarges ti'at eonld not be iipommI in the ,M.urts '. kife and jiropertv 
 were e,|nally unsafe fruin tlie su.hlen innxuis made by Kaffir hordes, whom th<' " humanit->rian '■ 
 riuthoritu.s protf.el.Mh .bn-rug whi.d. dw.dlings were atta.dse.l. n.en u,assa.-r..,l. w.njien outra-e.l 
 ai;-onr/.mgl> tortnr.Ml or dnyt'n nake.l int.) th.' wil.leruess. ami what were erstwhile pe-,<-i.f,i| 
 happy, and thriving In.m.es. redu.-.'d to silen.-e. .h-,dation and ashes. New lands were .-rant- 
 e.l l-o the savages an,! lui rsh.u- la ws enfor.-eil f.>r the ilei'ensi- i I ) of these prote-vs of ■, h,is..-Mi,| 
 ei! Minisl<i-\ '., >- • r. 
 
 S.-x.-r,.r vr.-w th,: U. \vs--,mhuv irksome t!w innoyations. Tilles to nir.us were un justly with- 
 
 held, lor.yeiirs: l.-unHu-s w.u-e pr.-N .uit.wl fn.m nuirketin- tJieir grain at nu.re than Is ,r per ha"' ' i 
 Wsl-l.,y:U^h l>ru,. uu^ht.lail to realis,. enormous profit : rh.' <.1.1 1 Mit.d, .•urr.m.-vwas rede.^m'^ 
 ■■d.)fojyiy.;.:p.eent. ol ,ts Wu;- vain,. inls2^: tb.- ,..,urts of heemra.l.oi and landrost wer,' ab.dish, ' 
 ed in I«-i;- ; ■.t;h..- us.' ..t th,. l-;n,^-||sh lan-uage was made e,„u|u,ls,,ry in the .-..urfsan.l pul>lie ofli- ' 
 -.•s , Iheb.m-.-stabiish.'.l ->st,-m of Ian, 1 t.uiure was swei)t a\Vay in f<l:; ; an. I. to.-aji the.-liu,-;x 
 anabru).! mu:, m:ipatiou ,,r i|,e sk, x e-^.-with.uit suia.lde pnni.ion f.,r them .u- a^le^uate r,-e„ ,' 
 p.-us.- to their wbil.uu u,,-,st,Ts.-,-ast th.Mis-,n.ls of th,- Ibnuer forth up,,u the Ian. I t,.o,.fien on 
 l.v t,.robau,l ,,iur.i,-r, an,| ruiiu-d hun.lre.ls .d' the kitt,-r. The elL-.-t ,.f all this .-umulati \ .- ]u-o\- 
 ..eatn.n upon m..u.,les<-,-n, hints, .ftb.,s,-wboha.l ,b-li, Ml tbe tyh,nn'i,-al atfemi.fs of khilip II' 
 iuul koni-^ XfV.orl,end.-a'J:y resist.-,! th,- kr,n,-b 1 1 uu-enoV im.,-s,m-u tions subs,-,pn-u t to St H-ir- 
 th,dou„-« s saturnalia of 1,1 ,1 ; n.av be l;,inth ima^inV:/.- Ih,- w.m,h-r |i,-s ; in reli.-elin.. upon 
 
tlii-lr iiltiuiKtH fxodui* t'rciin their rlghtl'ul territories— in tlie Cure tliat tliey Ijore so Ihuj^mihI ]k\- 
 tU'iitly wluil would lune eaiiseil luiiiiy :m inul>rt':ik it' it hail lieeii perpetrated in I';ii<i;|an(l. 
 
 SeeTnKAi., ( •• Hist. <\l' file i;oers,"i; ('l\kki;, ( " The Transvaal " IM'J >; (i.oktk, ( " The 
 Story of the (ireat. l">oi-r Ti-ek, '■ ;; IlKvi i:, ( •• Tljc Story of South Afriea".; I'lr.TKi; Smit; 
 1 '• Petition to Sir (ialbraicU I,. Cole, " Feb. Liist lsi.".t i: and numerous doeumentrt anU rei-ord:i 
 pre.Mervedin the I'olony Arehiscs. 
 
 Pg. 4. Line 17. 
 
 "In KICIITV.KN-SIXTEKN, A K Kl'.l'.l.l.K I N WAS 1)1' F.J J,KI). " 
 
 V<'.s ; (|ue]led like those in Ireland and India — 1)\' the exhibition of neeiiless harliarity — !>>• th<> 
 exereise i if relent less se\-erity : as admitted by all the lai-iiish writers idironieliiij;- uhe shoekinj^' 
 occurrence fore\ er blackening the name of 1 1(>\ ernoi- < harles Somerset, 
 
 When the lloer liio/.i imcMinrT, died liijlitin^;' alone ay,ainst a detachment of troojis ; sent to 
 arrest hiui for beatini;a nati\e in Isiri: his neiy:hbor,s rose in arms to defend what they beliexcd 
 to be rieiit. lUit t.he\' were defeateil. jiursued into Kafiirland, whither, ( '<letermined in)t to 
 
 submit to the old dcs))ot)sm i. they had lied for refuj;!' ; o\ erfciken and bojielessly entrapped 
 in a i^looiny dclile. made prisoners, and six R'adcrs—thc. ma.rtyvs, If ever marl yrs wi're — s]ieed- 
 ii,\ sentenced todc>!ith. taken to the military post on the farm of Van Aadt, ( or A.ardt ■, wheie 
 tl)i y had formerly sworn the oath of rebellion, and tlmre surrounded by .'tOU soldiers ha\ ini;- sev- 
 eral fie!(!-piec(.'s, all, but one. hany;ed. Four of the ropes parted, the S|iectat:.)rs c.ried out 
 for a pa,r<h'n — aias ! mercy there was none : 7iew roi)es were adjusted, and the trajz;ed>- consum- 
 uiatf'd; tht wi\t's and children of the victims, and siuue of their comrades thirty-two in num- 
 ber, being forced to behold the revolting proceedings by cmiimand of the hard-hearted Somer- 
 set ; who afterwards banished or imi)ri3oned many of tbem. 
 
 'I'ha SutTerers met their fa te with unfaltering hwoisni ; a hymn rising in solemn strains fr(un 
 their dying- lips;— their names : Stepb.anus and Abrah;im liotma. Hendrik I'rinsioo, Thennis 
 pe Kleck.and Corneles Taber ; should be treasured in memory by all trut^ lovers of freedonij 
 and publicly honorcfl like those of the gallant Swi.s,-; who ilied at Nafels. April !)th. lass. 
 
 The beam and pieeesof the ro)ies with whi<di these men wei'e murdered, are still preser\ed 
 by their venerating countrymen, ;!s nu-uiorials of SI,.\< 'HTl-:i;'S M<;k. ( Hutehei-'s (Udge ). 
 " .May mmc thos(> marks etfaee; for they appeal 
 J<"rom tyranny to (fod '. " 
 
 Pg. 4, Line 22. 
 
 •'LiKK rHK (ill-lKI) (;ii;()>i>E, " 
 
 It was the last d:;y of Qetober 17!);!; and four tu]nbriis, laden with the most \irturous and en- 
 Ughtencrt members ofl.lre French ('on\-ent.ion, bad rattled their deathward wax throngti rht- dr- 
 lerious multitudes, suari-i'.ng anil roitruij;; in ierocious exultation, in thenarrow Parisian strect>; 
 aiid deposited their doomc^i ().ccupant,s altlie foot of the li-rrible, recking, g;iill<itiiic. 
 
 The.sc were the f '. i noMHs rs ; intelligciit, JMimanc, depiiM-ating massacre.', inspired with hdt\ 
 phinnin'g I'or Uicir dear Kepiiblic's luiure : they had dared to opiiosc such meii as Dantoii, Itoli- 
 cspleiTc, and Mar.-it ; the> haiT a tteiuplcd Li baik tb" luad design.- .dan unreasoning mob, inlox- 
 
'".Ttt!!! hy too copious (IrmifchTs from tlie <;up of Liberty after a f.^arfully ftnforncd «b,<rinri)c(' ')f 
 (''■ntnrit'S (l.';ti;:.i:- frojii the time of the ,I;<.e(iiierie ;— tln'y li^ni attemptiM.l tfi I'.ireet rbe TTKitV. <>i' ■\ii 
 ;!\;i1niie,lie inorc^ f'ltal than that of the 'Cai'aineli : Inol'they were whelmed by it to a death t.luit 
 
 of therie twenty one i;alnj. br;n i 
 
 ;i^ ii!iniortallit>-, 
 
 Cirni .Hiifl distinct, ;inii(l an aiipallinf;- riinimr, rose tlo' \-'.ie 
 en I hn.siji ;•■(■,■; : singini; i7i unison a iiara]ilri'.ise of tlie Iiei\ Nerso nf the irIorio\is'- MarneiP.aise ; '' 
 ' ih'it l"i>'Tin \vhieh w.'is >et to h^ad thi' :^on>: oi' (;:i!lia on u: \ictory over the combined and veler- 
 iin annii';; .-.r ull imperial I-:uro))e ;. but fainter ;ni(i faiiiier iell the deliant notes e.non uniiit\ irr;,'- 
 ear.--, as. one by one. tiie sinper-- jnissed bene:vtli the di-scendiuy; kniJ'e of the swift !)nt iiwfnl en-, 
 Kine, till tliey sisnk intosilcnee iovrvfr. Sillcry with his white and tiowing hair ; l-Mllery, vvlib 
 composed in prii^cm the pi'opin'tii" dir;;-e, concluilin;^ thus; 
 
 '• r>ut sb.onbl tile niur(b>rer's arm prevail ; 
 Should tyranny our lises assail : 
 I'uTUoved, triunajdiant, sc<irniiifi,' de;"tb. 
 We'll bless thee with our latest breath. 
 The hour, the irlorious hiMir, will etune 
 That eoi'seefates the patriot's tomb. " 
 Silb>r>-, the nolile and thc> p)od, bowinj;- calmly to the peo]de. wa.s the lirst to die; nioid \<\'^ Ihe 
 ■W'^rk of s;ansor!--in thirty two minutes after, tin' ii|)riij,ht, thcu^-htfal I'.rissot : ; )ie Ird ;v i mti- 
 sonne ; tiie •licius La Source; the talented Dueos : and the elo(|Uenl "\'e:-t>iar,it -y (wiia ;id 
 ■whose rhr>sostnii'u'ton;.:ue tlrew tears from bis terriljle judy;es nl' the precediiyu: ui^iil ere it was 
 riulely silenceif -W-itli che rest, bad i>'isse(t iut' the fatliondc -s obsciirity th:U siirouds the sei-rets 
 of tiie t;rave. I-'rance. in a ■.upr(.-uu' freny.\ , h;id annihilated all that was virturons and just 
 
 at the htdm of her s1p]i of s'atc ; at the niin;itory luaml^ite^ "f iuijieriou;- ilestiuy sbe liad dash- 
 ed aside, at least ti-mpoi-ariix . tools tracing,' lines of delii-;tle mid ;estbetie ;;-r;, \ure,. fur co.irsiT 
 instruments cuttin;.;- with a deiitli and rouiihness tli.a.t ebdiorated eflec'tsas tiltim.atelj ^T.■lUll as 
 primarilv. they were ajiiialliufr. Aristocracy Ma'^ r.o be humbled and eruslied with resistless 
 
 hi.iu' extermination ; a bli^biiuu,- .tnd blind ing- <derjiy was to be liarled from its 
 I ro\alty a!lo\er Iv-irojie sliaken on its throne and aliai'MJ in its 
 c. so louj; abused, so lonji' despi.sed. raising- the hideous .le ifii' 
 
 ngor, :i',)] 
 
 mind-ensla \ iiig siipi 
 
 arr(ig-ance. ii\ v!i<' ( 'immon i'locni 
 
 arr{tganc(.'. o\ im' i ' ' m \][ *.\ i i-.n ei.;.. so cuig aouseu. so nKii^ MesjM.-Ni'u. ■. d, tmiii; i iit- m nj<-wii.-. . n -i, , .i ^- 
 head standard i!.'.;i;<>i! over the corsesof the resisting;ind the reliu-tant, and rtisliiug on to ilMat 
 the tri-i-(*l(UT,bo\c nearly esery hostile eapitol. The i ; iron dists—nuua-if ul--idefil istie- cent uries 
 advanced in thought beyomi the :;gt — were incanablc ni'this horrifying sa<-rifice to ruonm-ss, 
 so they Wire swcjit instantlv from ;powc'r ; as an\ iii tclb-'tual mt>der.'i f^s would lie today, who 
 migbtatten;])! tcdire^'ta revdutioii of ourowii misgoverned citizens during the first transports 
 
 and terrors attendant upon their liberation 
 
 Pg. 5. Line 21. 
 
 •• TiM-ii.VNriiist'.n THK si,,\vk." 
 
 When Kngl.-ind lirst permanently sei.'.ed the Tajie. her ottici^ls are alleged to have guaranteed 
 the continuance of sla\'ery as an instittition sanetioneil by law in the iiew^ " Colony." 
 
 I'.e this .as it juay. it is certain that both the practice and tralhc were connived at, and the lat- 
 t-er uit.nol)oli/.ed by, the Kjitish. ( See roiauals in the Colonial Artdiives, <luring isijr, and IS07 ). 
 
 Tlierc \V''re ii(':irl\ eC.eiKi slasc-;: whose \alii<'. indisidiuilU . often rose a-: high as from ,^.■^0e to 
 
£.(!iiO : these were appraiseii at (nily t.sr. ii]i;cce— e:;,iioii,()i)(i m the aj;)^!-i.-;itc. l;ut wlicii t'li' Iri -- 
 ty c:iianciiiati(!ii washefi'un in is;;:;, it was t'otunl thati owinji,' to ins\itlii-ieiit a|i|irii|ii-iati<)n 1)\ lli<- 
 J'arliaineiit X tlie Caiie wouhl recei\ e l)i\t tljiio.ono «i: the total firaiit, ov alxmt €8.^> i>cr slave I 
 
 Ard this iiia(le(iuate sum was iiaid in iiumis wliieb <-oul(l lie cashed at uar value, only in Car •,\- 
 M-ay London 1 Uuin to liiindreds resulted; some, who had mortg'ag'ed their s1a\es) rjor lo tiie 
 Aetbeir.i*' forc'ed to jiart with tlieir farms; ( Ci.niorio, i'"i.i:.-\i i nc. ) : others raisinj;- money <ni llu' 
 (rertitieates from dereiviiifi' speculators at e\'en .'lO \>. cent, disi'ount ; ( 'I'liv-.A i,, ) ; and sonic ucv- 
 er reeeixinti' any of tlie bonds 1 i Kixc, ■■ Jaiueson's i.'aid. '" IS'JC, > Discontent rose his'' a- 
 
 nioufi- t)ie imiioverished farmers, wliose lamls wer(_' now over-run with tlnevlng- vat;Tanls. aii<l 
 1 prepared the way for what might have bi-en a\crteiVh-id tiie proce-sol' emancipation been f;rad- 
 !y carried on and the e(!nipensation (V) of vhe inr.sters idlccted with ordinarx' attention to the rv- 
 tjuirements of c(>]uui:!n business honest.N . 
 
 Pg. 6. Line 6. 
 
 •'Ami soiiwir IN riii; wii.ns a m:w nwr.i.i.i nc-im.aci:. ", 
 Ten thousand brave, ail-saerilicing [leoplc.— more evilly treated than the Puritan I'llg-rims li' 
 !oi-mer <la\s; inlinitely more tolerant and humane tlian most iiigo'oco ami |H-i,-,cc..iiiig ,. nifv c; 
 lior.i misrub.- :— severed the ties that '.)ound them to a misentitled ■' ci\ ili/.ation ;"aiiri v.-endcil 
 their toilsome way, beset with ilanger, sudering. and death : t<i found an ideal <-onini(inv, c:ill i 
 ( i th.eir (uvn. This was the (Iitjcvr Tki:!\ id' l.s.'.(; — it was astonishing — it was gi-;niil 1 1 1-v:, 
 
 many of ni\' dolla7--ensla\ ed countrymen of tod;n could imitate it : nay, e\cn :i]ipreciate ils io - 
 \y motives and its almost unparalleled self sacrifice '.' 
 
 Pg. 6. Lines 13 and 14. 
 
 '• ClIAlvA. "' ■• DiNOAX. ■' 
 
 ( Iml.a, or 'l'(d)aka, the Ca'sar, and a t the same time the ( iirrier. of the Kaliirs ; \\:is oucolf' ■ 
 ]nost reiiiarkable and sanguinary desiKits that ever ruied a jieople. t)riginall\ only roic' .,. ' 
 
 the Amaxulii ; he (de\ated that small trilie from a state of insignilicancc to a posit ioii o,' nnoo^ 
 pc.sable iiredominance. lie formed the w.irriors into regiments : taught tiicm'he nio.sl , ilil 
 ( lements of martial dis<-ipliwe ;■ and aiu-ustomed tliemto rush c^oncertcdly in c'lm.paci 111:1s c , 
 upon their foes, which no KaHir had dreanu^d of liioing, before. Sla\ery. torture and dc-iil.i mI 
 tended his \ ictorious arnrs. Dreading a successor. an> of his scores of wi\ cs nxIio c\ imrd lo- 
 liens of apjiroaidiing nuiternitA. were jiut to death on trilling pretexts conc(-;iling the rr 1I o'l 
 .ieet in view ; e\-en this most absolute of moinindis being necessitated to oulxxMrdh' .sj-pi^;)!- i.-, 
 consult tl'.e wisbes of his jiftople. Iferlid not long. sur\i\-e the murder of his nni! her. ."dnin.-i 
 vvliicl) he cau>^ed, and at and after whose interment there reigned a carnixal of slaiigbli-r ilv:)'- 
 lingi:;e atrocities iieriietrated by M'tesa of Uganda and the '-customs" of (icicle of n.ihom- 
 e\- ; soldi intended to di\ert suspicion from hiUi'.seif. Ten girls wci-e iniri^'il •■ilix.iin Iot 
 
 gra\ e— live thousand iieoide slain at it wlc,>--e t ;;,;;■< i'adcd Iri lies exti'rminated tor bidng iibscnt .' 
 
 Dii!gan and i'ndilanger.ie, his brotlier,--, tr._-ache:'oiisl.\ slew him during ;i council: ihc li.nr.cr 
 |. bleated tb<' soldiery, usurped the tbro-;ip, ami ruled :is liloodil> a< (l^'iK-i inilil llic i:-.,.,-^ -b . ■ 
 tercii his power p. ml be l.wi. ■■.o-.,„.,. ■,..,,, c.. 11,, _■ A,s;ii:|.i;.fcc ij; I qii. win. pu 1 lii'n 1 • w|,- , 1 li.. 
 
Pg: 6i Line 1"^. 
 
 '''Willi, IX iji'Vrn'.K's i.i:Ai>i:itsiin' rr.Arixc 'nii:ii: ■ikist." 
 I''?>tc^r h'otiff \\;'.s a \iiie-ilresser in I'aarl District, Cajie ('(i)ony ; butaliaiuli/iied this industry 
 i"nr tlie ro\ iiii;' life of a frcintier tradcT. After luakiny; and losing- a fortune as ('(intractor, be 
 
 was ajiiKiinted fnmtiereniiiiiiandant in 1-<:j4, but so alily did he repress the iCatlirs and defenil 
 tiu' colonists against then; and the Aagraiits that Stockenstroni ijiiarreled with him, and the 
 high-siiirifed man s<ild his ]iropx-'rty, and cast in his lot with that of the emigrants beyond the 
 ris er \'aal ; who made him their ('ommandant-Ceneral. Tlie melancholy cud oi' this daring, 
 V-onscientious, and well-lo\ed leader will be related in another of these notes. 
 
 Pg. 6. Line 23. 
 
 '■TiiF. ri)>vi.i:K "a Nil cins df tiii; i'iksp Ihu-i; nAxus. " 
 Incredible as this act of cruel heartlessness, emanating from the Cape i io\ crnuu-nt. may ap- 
 ]iear : it is iricoiitroN crtibly true. Hut r.iany merciful iCnglish officers e\aded strict comiili- 
 
 aiicf with ordi'rs whose rigid eniorcement would ha\ e been ecjuiN aient to handing over the un- 
 fortunate emigrants bound hand and foot, to the sa\ages the authorities pretended to be so de- 
 sirous of protecting. 'i'liese ciin\eyed warning of their purpose to./or wtMX- remiss in their 
 search of, the i!oer pioneers : so muid! ammunition, etc. was secreted. Vet the order limited 
 their sniijily s-i scriousU- that .Ian \au Uensburg's little comjiany iierished. men. v.ome!i. chil- 
 dren, — all : — by famine and mas-jacre I And suliseciuent parties also .^nirvred horribly. 
 
 Pg. 7. Li^ es 9 and 1.0. 
 
 •' .\mi swiim'i.\' ■riiK iii:a iii-i'iKK flkw, fno.M ■rmc s;.(ii'i:s of \'i;\'i:r Koi-. " 
 The lierc-e .Abiselekatie, or .MatzuU'-Kat/.e, ruled over the Ziihis i-allcd Matabcles then dwell- 
 ing far nortii of the'Vaal. A gra]ihic jien-jiicture is dra\\n of this chieftain by Couwn allis- 
 J!Ai!i;is, ( •• Xarr. of an Kxped, intoS. Af ica, "" ls:"o. ), who also described <)iie of the camps of 
 tile emigrant I'.oers. SuSpiidous of the white men's intentions, his warriors sudilenl.\ swejVt 
 
 (low7i on their ad\anci-ig \an and liutchered tir.srt "iS, and then lia. of both sexes and all ages. 
 
 Other I'.oers, \varned liy siir\ i\ors, resisteil successfullv: .Moselekatze sent a great arm>- coiii- 
 jiosed of t!ie iiuirtial Hower of .\niatabele, to destroy them ; but the desjierate farmers, assi- ted 
 li\ their wi\'es ar.d ch.ililren, ( for there were only ,!s a\ailablemen ! ), formed a strong hiav;er 
 on ^'e(d>t Kop in the Orange fh'ce State, and defended this cauip with such, puissant \ahir thai, 
 a!th()ugh it was rejieatedly set on lire in jilaces and once nearly carried liy assault: the ferocinua 
 assailants were finally repulsed ; the l>oers losing only eight killed, and wounded, 
 
 Pg. 7. Line IL 
 
 '" LiKic rni; Fi,i:s:i-si-,Ai;iN(: isAix." 
 
 'I'l.at NN'hicfi droppel on the folorn and nak^-d of the se\e:ith circle. " On whose area \V'i'.'l'e of 
 arid sand and thick ■■'■■ > fell sl-)N\-iy wafting down, ilik: ted Hakes of lire. " 1>A.\T1", ('•iM'.ijic 
 Comedy — Inferno," Cary'str. canto xi'v. lines l:;, 14, L'."' ar^il -Ji;. . 
 
 Ir was a fasorite de\ ice, origiriated, by the Katlir scldiers, to bind blazing brands to 'the shaf :3 
 of their •■ throwiiig-spears "and literally shower them dov>'n-. thus con\ erted into incemfiary jiiio- 
 siles, iioi:n their enemy's !<raai, ( '.iliage i, or l.iag^r, i c'liUp r. 
 
Fg. 7, Line 12. 
 
 •■ l>Ai:i\ vs Tki n I HA ii's I, A K i:. 
 Tl t ^Tcat \ntvh ;ii\ _ re: r t1;e v:;ia-i' nf I a I're ;, Ishiml nf '1 r:ni< ail ; \\\\ii.^o wati-)';, :: inilc'i 
 In fircmiifevence, ar ' (Ik iH.v cdNereil with a,si)li.i!t a-.-isiii;:,- ri<(i n Ijituiiu'iious cdal. 'I'iiis su'.j- 
 
 staiire i-i hlark wit'i lirov.ii, red am! .iTcy th ts, ir.d m-.irly lioils at the ctiitro of the iak(!. 
 
 Pg. 8. Line 4. 
 
 " .-Vn!) voi'w t'^•^t\iv. 111- lii mjs WITH im;a\k i;!r!i;-v vi-i.i.. " 
 Uetief had received assuranees from Diugaii. that, a-^ .-■(kiii as lie re.-(i\ ered some rattle takt-Jl 
 from liim by Sikonyella, a .Mantatee ehief;a ^-rant of certain uiioccni);e(l lands \vou4d he con- 
 ferred upon the I'.oers. Uetief accomplished thiswithout Ijloodslied, andalter his reluni, de 
 si>ite the warnings of his friends, set out in an exW h<iur for Dingan's caidtal ; where lie a!Ti\- 
 ed on Fel) 2nd. 1>S3!I, attended by 7ii or so IJoers ans, e,on\-d :',.) ser\anto.\inj;- the restored cattle. 
 
 Dingan feasted him, signed an ali'reement ceding the v.'ished for territorv t'ore\ er. and a.s he 
 was about to depart, in\ited him to re-enter the isi-bava i <L'ntral ei (d )sui-e i, ofthe great miii- 
 tar\- kraal. rnsuspectingly, Uerief and his men piie.l their midcrts o iHide, in eonform:aiice 
 \vitb Zulu eti(iuette ; and went in. T.ut while they sat in pleasant con\ers:' — parting-eiip^ of 
 maize-beer raised to their lips— loud thundered the voice of the terrible Z.ilii ; " Slay tlie \\ i-:- 
 ards ! And there ]iressed around the doomed ones. -lOdI) of the willing warriors, wh"se fatal 
 
 kerries struck down the victims at first like oxen in the shambles. Hack to ba(d<. armed luil^- 
 With (dasp-knl\ es, the Koers sent many of the foremost in that crushing (riride to tlieir last ac- 
 count, ere they, too, fol]owed tlieir gallant eommamler to the grave. F<;. il i'or lliewidf ai;d 
 bird of prey, their bodies were thrown on a small hill outside the kraal, de^■otelI to ta^ remaiiis 
 of criminals ; where, ten months later, Pretorius found them, a horrible ]»ile of bi;ttered ski 1- 
 etons one of which was identified as that of Retief by mjans of a leathern ])oucli containir.g the 
 deed si.'.ned by Iiingan, still hanging from his neck. 
 
 Pg. 8, Line U. 
 
 " r.iKN T owx (IX 'rir'-; < A:\n' o:' t:iic ii;';i.;-;.::ss oxi'.s >,:i;ii. " 
 The eanip of tl'ie emigrants extended far down the lUiie Kr;^,nt:'. rnd Klii ri\ er \alleys : only 
 at a few places, here and there, had any defense, in the shaite o'' f ce-branches, stones, gnuip- 
 (•(1 wagons, etc. been begun, the young men not with Retief had ridiU'u oil' ti hunt, and the aged " 
 and the women and (diildren, lulled by an amazing ser.se of security, abided, scattered v.'.irlun:^- 
 or resting, their return— an easy prey to the ten Zulu regir.ieiits tlien rusliing on Irom ('inlvi.n- 
 gloid',- red with the recent siaughter, — to destroy them, 
 
 Pg. 9, Lines IS to 22. 
 
 " Fo;:'iiiF. wa;:-axes citrsitioi) riiic fi;aii. ski i.r. <iv iiii-, ciiii.n,'' etc. 
 The Kaftiir — good-humored, kind-hearted, hospitable to tlie extreme in tiaics ol' iieace— is so 
 affrightingiy transfonnei! during warfare a5 to liecome a faclnoroiis d^emcii : a Moloch iiu.-aterL 
 by prolonged, anil multiplying agony and slaughter- Wiiat horrors tho^c iitti > childrc,-, ;;i:i4 
 
 iicipierj^ ■.vomeii v\ci-e ii.r,-ed to ■-i e .'ind sufl'er. iiasr-c-' 1h_'11; ii-.i.'.'gir.'.tji u i 'i ili : r'p!;i n ! 
 
Vtii\ isbeil, eA"e"nteT?<tr-], rTis<"2rate<i, !^ioill.^:tt)<^-:l];'v,i.;: \ e— flaye i ^.v■ll :i ii-u;ii 'm1:i(1.' xvmd ji M-T'ir- 
 ated ai^'ain anil aguiii by them in n.(in-vitaJ jilai'es tu priiirnij;- tii mi- i-Sijiu.^it.- .i,.-;n.r> i<ij •■.■■^r-i^- - 
 seared and charred and broiled by lire — all this and more did tliese ^ irtims of the barbarous, ni- 
 human policy of the Cape authorities exhihitto the ])ityinii'eyes of their avenginy; countr>iiic i 
 and kin as the latter entered those veritable \'ales of death. They found Marguerita Van 
 
 's'oort pinned naked te the ground by assegai-heads thrust deejily into the soil through her 
 wide-extended hands and feet : her nose ears and breasts pared oil' i lose to her head or body :■ 
 )'.nd her excnterafed abdo]nen displaying in its blackened ca\ity the (■( lil remnants of what ha<l 
 once been glowing endiers? : — they reuioved the skeleton of an unknown young girl, i>artiaily 
 denudedof all flesh, from a broken ant-hill ; she had been sfcripi>ed. pegged down on her ba(dv 
 upon the nest by sjiear points in the same cruel manner before mentioned, and left to perish lin- 
 geringly, excruciatingly, in worse than tiery torment, by the bites of the enraged in3.e(^ts that at 
 once began to I'rawl over and sting her and gradually burrovv' into her body ; her first frenzieil 
 writhings doubtless affording infernal mirth to the gloating torturers ere they sought fresli \■i(^• 
 tims for newer forms of prot'rastinated (U-ath ; — and they lifted (uit little Catherina I'rinsloof roni 
 a dreadful heap of mangled and blood-crrusted C(U-pses, l;\ing and yet to live, though jierftu-a^- 
 ted with twenty-om; ghastly assegai wounds '. 
 
 It is for no idle purpose that [ Shoctk the reader by the recital of a few instances cf sii<>h i>f 
 these enormities asdecenc\' permits to be nameil, — but to con\'ey to his mind a fcidilc im;ii'css- 
 ion of what a persecnte^l people were forced to undergo through the unjustifyable linrslmi'^s 
 of the same ■' ci\ ilized " government that shortly afterwards drove them fron\ tlies<' new lnnil <, 
 won at the itost of so much sacrihce and sulferiug, and is now for the third time jiursuiug them 
 with pitiless and contemptible malice accentuated by that basest of motives : cni-.EO. 
 
 And, furthermore, to awaken his indignation and then dir.ect its flow agiiinst the true cause 
 (d'all tlie misery befalling the ISoers: the Ufitish fxovernment : by also dire ■ ting his .■ittcntion 
 to the fact that, as that power unrighteously seized f'ape Cohmy in the beginning— forced many 
 of its inhabitants into exile— followed these even beyond the waters of the Orange to depri\(> 
 them of sersanrs, preteniled to have been really sla\es, and of thi'ir arms, their on]\- means of 
 defeuse and siibjistenci^— and stirred up the natis'es against them.( e\en as they did trie wild In- 
 dians in our Re\olution )— the l>riti-h (hnernment and that alone must be \icweil as the princi. 
 lial in all the.se and ensuing horrorsand the Kaffirs .«imply regarded as either ine\ itably concouu 
 itants upon its measures, or else as .vc rr.vL .viwcnts, 
 
 Pg. 9, Lines 15 and 19. 
 
 " \V.\u-Axr,s" * * * •' AssiccAi. " 
 
 War-axes were used by some of the Kafflrsnorth of the i)rakei!-;berg uumntains. pressed into 
 I'lingan's ser\-ice— they did not form part of the arms of th.c true Amazuhi. 
 
 The assegai was the i>rincipal weiiium of nu)St of the tril>es ; this was n kind of spear, or b'glit 
 iavelin. composed of a slight-looking. graduall.\- ta])ering sliaft formed f roui the elastic wood rf 
 the ( urtisiadi-cc, and a likide-shitpcil i rem head : cimxex on one side of a raised central ridge 
 and CMUi'a-\ I- on the otliev- scr\ lug !:> c .■.iiaiimicate a rofntorx- motion to it during its flighty 
 
 Sscmctlm'::- it w:r- b:nir,-d. b iv mir \cry ol'lcn ^..,pinl o'--';:sinn:!ll\' the cl,;il)ur;i.lely-fasliior,ed 
 
blade \'?a* rci)]ai-e(l l),v a mere spilce. Thoiig'S of raw liMe, ori5j,iiially wetted, were used ti> tirm- 
 ly biii'it the head to the shaft. In the ai^ of throwing this weapon, the Kaftir springs raiiidly 
 fnun side to side, ami inii)arts to it a iieeuliar (jnivering motion at the nnnnentof ts deenrtura 
 ac<'oniimnied by a strange menacing hum ; both of whieh it retains during its undulating, ser- 
 pent-like, bewildering flight. The stabbing-asisagai is shorter and hea\ ier and has a bayonet- 
 shaped blade. Lf. Vai.i.iant, i5.vi!Ki)W, Fi.kmim!. 
 
 Pg. 9y Line« 25 and 26 
 
 " TlIK Xol!TIIEl!N-I,AM) LKMJII.XCiS " # ,t * " NoKGE" 
 
 The lemniing( .Myodes lemmus, or Creoryehus novegituis ), a short-tailed, mouse-like, terribly de- 
 structive little animal ; swift and' absolutely void of fear ; over-runs Laplan<l and Scandinavia 
 a t uncertain inters'al.s of tiuie, generally once or twice in twenty years, migrating either towards 
 th^ Atlantic or the (iulf of Hothnia. Neither tire or water bars its progress audit attacks 
 \VVi'ate\er living it may meet. 15( i-I'Un. Hi(ii,A^ND. Woon. (" Natural Histories " ). 
 
 Norge, ( pronounced nor j^'iy ), Is Norwegian for Norway. 
 
 Pg. 10, Line 1. 
 
 •' Tin: \vAi;i;ii>i;s or Kosa a.nt) Zrr.u ani> I'onda. " 
 Altliougii, fo'- tlie nn.st part, formed of Aniazulu, yet the Kaftir armies contained many war- 
 rior.s of other tribes forcod into ser\lce. or else absorbed by the former nation's conquests. 
 
 Pg. 10, Line 6. 
 
 " PUETnlMrS. " 
 
 Andrics Fcetorius had lieen a very po]iular Field-t'ornetin Prraaf-Reinet district, Cape Colo- 
 fiy, aud had recently jiiiued the emigrants ; who now gave him chief command. 
 
 Pg. 10, Lines 10 and 11. 
 
 " I.MIMS lil- DlNMiAX. " * * * "IJllOAD WAI! SHIELDS EXTAXD." 
 
 An inqji, <:)r regiment, consisting of from (iOO to 1000 men, was indicated by the black and red 
 s))ots displayed on the broail white surfaces of their tall, strong, shields of hide 
 As many as thirty six iiupis were, at the zenith of Amazulu jiower ; kept ready for war. 
 
 Pg. FO, Line 16. 
 
 •']")F.ATii i!ini.\(; FOK F.rniF.i; who viki.dei* that plain." 
 Zulu soldiers returning unsuccessful from battle were certain to meet death or decimation 
 a(^cording to the sanguinary precedent set by Chaka. And the Boers knew that failure to win 
 that st/ifc meant future massacre to themseUes and all dear to them, by the sietors.- 
 
 Pg. 10, Lines 18 and 21. 
 
 •' • K!,]:rnAN r Kixci.'" * * * " Zingans. " 
 
 •' Klcph;;nt King " is an isa-b'>'riga, i praise-name ) : it is assunied by, or given to. a Kaftir on 
 
 (":r.i>i.iii, /.ii:j^:iii, iir Ziugian. is :i uaiiii- :ip])liBd to all the tribes occupying the territory lym;:^ 
 
TictwfoiiHie nnikenslmr!; 'nidimtains mid llio sea 
 
 l>1iiji-aii's army left from .-JOOO to oOOO dead ar.d wonn.ie(V on the field : many Koers declare 
 that tlie battle eontimied thre(- days. It terminated on Dee. !<;. l^i:;^<; the ainuve:>-ary oj' 
 tins vietovy is celebrated to this day at Paardekraal.' 
 
 Pg. n, Lines 22 and 23. 
 
 '• NAPIKK. '■ ^ * * •• I'KlNSI.co. ■' 
 
 Georg-e Xapier, governor or<^ii)e Colony, wronii-f ,;llv laid clMiin ;.o Xatalia on the pretext tliat 
 it was originally inelnded in the land aeijuired by i-higland at the •• ees-iion " of tlic <"ai>e ; and 
 also to jireserNC peace in South Africa, which liis own countrymen had repeatedly sprinkled 
 with the blood of its natives, whom xhey aifectefl to protect when the latter did not immediate- 
 ly stand in the way of their and)itious jirojects. Vet, in lH4;i, this man had left Natal to the 
 .>>oers, writing- a line moral missive to their Landrost whi(-h concluded with his •' sincerely hoji- 
 ing" that they might cultixate those ))eautiful regions they had made their own, in peace and 
 tranqnillity! (See Ci.oiciF/s " (ir. i;oer Trek.'") The bi;ave, rngged, honest (ioy. PuiNSLOo's 
 first notificatimi of this \ illany. was tlie adxent of a well-appointed detaidiment of troops under 
 >lHJor-(ienerai Smith : lie remonstrated in vain. : so uttering the memoraliie woj-ds gi\ en in tiie 
 ]ioem, he awaited the onslaught of tiie foe. .\ttemi>!ing to surprise tiic I'.oer 1 r.igcr iiear tlie 
 Congella river, a swift Natal stream ; Smith was defeated, losing manxmcii, { iii<itul\' <li-ownt'd 
 in their precipitate High t i, ami all his canmr. ! lie was rhcreuiion , dnscl;, besieged in iMirlian, 
 but large reinforcements arrived and British age:; t.s caused the l^altirs. always delighting in war. 
 to fall upon the frontier farms: thus relieving Smith, who Iviii been dietinu' ecouomicaily up- 
 on liorseflesh : for the i'xicrs hastened to save such of the women an.), (diildren there ash.,d not 
 already been outraged or murdered. Thus rhe Knglisli forced them to submit ! 
 
 Some began to leave Natal at mice : others, finding the, rigor of I'.riti.sh rule increase— for nv.- 
 ny farms were confiscated because not iriimcdiately oecui)ied, 'houses were arbitrarily entered 
 aud searched, a petitioner sent to the (■a)>e ignored, and a reward of ilUnm offered for their for- 
 mer leader dead or alive — soon followed them anil Smith saiil that the u)isery he then beheld, ev 
 (■•■eded any he had ever seen before. A nd all this after England had solemnly assured Ketij f 
 she w<uild not interfere with the Uoers in future, on their quitting ('ape ('idon\ '. ^.he i:egan 
 to fear the effect of the lu-oximity of a nourishing kkkk i-tKiTBt.ic 
 
 Pg. 12, Lines 3, 4 and 5. 
 
 " Koi-.FEli. " •• D'Kl.lSEl:. ■" •■ W.VUVELi,. " 
 
 Jens Koefed. a brave, upright and sagacious inhal)itant of the mountainous nanisli island of 
 I'.o.rnholni. ( in the I'altic ), assemlded live resolute^ men and surprised the commander of the 
 Swedish forces then subjecting the country, at iloenne— rode, iike Paul Revere, from Tiilag" 
 to \ illage rousing the peo}de— (utptured flanimershius — was maile general -in-ehief — and freed 
 the island from the yoke of the invaders. 
 
 U'Elbee, a ^'endea^ gentleman then about 40 : joined the peasant-army in 1703 : defeated the 
 republican jierrnyer at < 'henille — was ukade commindc'- en rlie dc'at?; "f' ''Kf^^^^\}^^n"liAl — an'i,shoi: 
 ill the breast during the terrible slaughter at Chollet, was left duriiig the p-.iss;ige of the Loire, 
 
■riikcii iiriSDiit'i-, sbiii-tly aftcrwanls. iiinl ladi'ii witli insult while tcirturcd by liis woiiml ; lio 
 cndiiiTil it all caliuly for ii\ e day^, tluui alnidst fxi)irin^v, he excla-iiiied •• (ientltMuen, it is tiiiiu 
 til ciincludc. let nil' <!ie '. " Tlioy jilaced him in a chair li>' the shore, and shot liim. 
 
 riiouj;li a tritle pedanti-'. he was a \ery virtiiroiis, able, eouraji'tsitiis, learned and iiions man. 
 
 Andrew .Marvell, .M. I'.— satirist of Charles 1 !— friend of liberty— was horn at Winesteud, in 
 Yorkshire, Knzland. in Xr•^^1. lie stoo<l for the best interests of his eoimtry. though his life 
 
 was fre(iuently threatened : and he nnhesitatinii-ly rejected a place at court and also an olTer of 
 +:],il(iii. fnini Lord Daub)-, intended to purchase his silence, although he was in such wr.nt as to 
 be obliged, immediately afterwards, to send out from his obsi-ure and cheerless lodgings to tr\- 
 to borrow a guinea. \Vell diil he deser-, e to be called ■' the ISritish .Aristides I " 
 
 U is delightful to be enaoled.to resurrect the nearly forgotten names of '^uidi nobie and 
 consistent men from the g-r;i\e of years of ohli\ion, and mjrror forth the (hnds that haloed 
 them of \iire, for shining and euialative example to the beings vf today. 
 
 Pg. 13, Line 4. 
 
 •'Tli:, VUVK SrATl-; WAS ANM';.Vr.[l. " 
 
 Another gross -liolation of (Jreat ISritain's oft re-iterated j-.rov.iises that she would not disturb 
 the settlers mirth of the Colons. The IWiers residing near the Orange Ki\-er, resisted Kngli.-:h 
 authority after the (<iniiuest of Xntai, an:! were defeated at the 'hard-fo;ight battle of Boom- 
 plaats, . .Manx- then trtUkt-d ne.tb. whei'e the rortuguese, kinder than the I'.ritish, had gi^■eh 
 land t.' the refngefs from >'at:;i. A reaction occurred in Kngland, i-esuKing in the recogni- 
 
 tion of these i'.oers north of the "V'aal ri \ er. as independent, a c(in\ention signed by Commi.s- 
 sioners Owens and Hogg, also decLiiing that "lOngiand vvilil not make any extension of territor.\' 
 beyond that boundary." (Jan. IC, IS.'il' ). And in another act of justice, on !''eb, 4, l^.W, when, at 
 Zand ri\er, llussell Clerk restored the freedi^m cf thy Orange KiA'er I'oers, hist atlloonipU-ats, 18J'.i, 
 
 NVhate\ er motives of .Ministerial compunction or diplomatic or linaneial exiiedieney. induced 
 this sud.dcn restitution, their ascendancy was, uufortunatel.\-, of very brief duration. 
 
 Pg. 13, Line 7. 
 
 "LiKi': Till" s'niD.Nc, srcKicK-isitA Ncnr.n, Ovaii. Ti;r,K." 
 The weird and leafless tree, fabled to stand in the great anii)hitheatre of the evil Black Priest- 
 liood of the wonderful golden city of Manoa, high-reare<l on niysterious lioraima,. t (iuiana ). 
 
 ■■The brandies which were many — a hundred or more probably — drooped o\er from wher:' 
 the trunl-- euil.Nl -Arid trailed aluuit th.e gro.md..'" * * * •• It.^nexer ceasing !i!o\-i;n.-ius .■i\;;- ..--^t- 
 i'.e of e'.erlasting "aantiog hilei- p '"y. of -m ins^itiable craving for its h;iteful di.-t ..T llcsji an 1 
 blood, of ijleepless hunger, of tireless rapacity and relenties.-Viituelty — all these m ide up ;,n un. 
 natural creation that ap|) iUed rlie instincts rtii'i cljilled the \ ci-i; ulo'od of those \\ ho looKcd u li- 
 on it." l'\ Al !-.i;f.\ , 1 ■■ ihc I'ciil '1 ree of Kl Dorado, " ISiiT, pg.3. SJ-i and :!4n ). 
 
 Pg. 13. Line 17. 
 
 " So nil': iiiAMiixiis iir Kimdf.hlicv." 
 In 1S71, in renewed violation of the most positive assurances one nation can gix'e to another, 
 a large piece of territory in which diamonds had been uisco\ered the year before, was toril 
 
fi-riiii tb( Tree State In; Great Kritain and formed intf) a colony entitled rjriijifa l;ind AVesf. 
 
 Some jears later a IrMiug sum was paid to the Hoers as indemnity for their losses by this act 
 of infamy ; a payment of thousanes where millions were invol\ed and which, while it confess- 
 ed, only ai.-centr.ated the v-^rong-done the nnolfending Itepaolic. 
 
 Pg. tS't bines 21 and 22, et. seq. 
 
 "That failei) t^' uKf-KN'r)' ttii', TkansvaaI; fhh.m sicizi kf. " 
 The South African Republic, or " Trarisvaal " had been endeavoring to connect it«elf with 
 Jiolag'oa Bay by rail ; this, and some trouble With the people of I'trecht on the fnmtier, stirreil 
 the wrath of Cetewayo, king of the Zulus, and seconded by a powerful (diief named Sekkocoeni 
 .lie prepared to make a <lescent with three large nati\ e corps. 
 
 It is true that the Republic was bankrupt, that her citizen's were rflarmed, aifd thiit tliere was"^ 
 fljninority party favoring annexation amongst them : but it is, neverless. as certain fact that 
 tlie Koers m'Iio, despite continual British and native hostility,- had preserved their intlependence 
 for four decades — unaided — could and would ha\e successfully defende<l the]nsel ves at this cri- 
 (sJs ; and that there is nothing to justify the treachery and hypocrisy whicli now disgraced lOn. 
 glish procedure. Theophilus Shepstone was hurried to Pretoria fnun tlie ('ai)e. as friendly 
 
 counseller ; there is no doubt, from his extraordinary inttuence o\ev the Kaitirs. he i;ould have 
 rolled back the tide of invasion tiiicn, as he easily did subse(iuently ; )>ut that v,'as not the d;'. 
 sire of tlie Alaclaavelians who sent him. He paltered — pretended to find anarchy while he art. 
 fully fomented discord — and at the juncture he j:idge(l favorable : the sa\:;ges on one side, an 
 aiM'umulating J5ritish force, ready to be employed for or against the IJoers , i as circumstances 
 uxight warrant ), on the other— he indelibly besmirched the honor of his countr\ and betray- 
 ed the conlidence many Afrikanders had based upon his previous asse\erationSi by i)roclaimjjig 
 the Trans\'aa.l a crown colony 1 In vain the burghers protested ; in \ain two deputations jour- 
 neyed to Englanil — the former were unheeded, the latter were denied an audieni e^ani) the old 
 aggravating policy of supercilious misgovernment was inaugurated anew. 
 
 teee Thkal, v" History of the Roers" ,) ; Nixon, (•■ Story of the Trans \aal " ) : ('ai;,tki!. ( •• A 
 Narrative of the Boer war" ) ; and t'oi.isNso, (" Natal letters " ) : 1 have corresponded with 
 Englishmen and Boers familiar with the above-mentioned occurence* and lijue caiefiiHy read 
 o.v contemporaneous British " Blue Books, " in ni\ search "for trutli. 
 
 Pg. 14, Line 6. 
 
 "TiLr, A BoKi! was jiAi/ntKATFi) wrriiiN PorciiiM-sriidoM. " 
 A Boer, named BE/l'iDUNHorr, of the P(it(diefstroom District— ( along the Mofii ri\er, to- 
 wards the S. W. of the Trans^■aal } — refused to pay the (;o\ernment (piit-rent taxes, which the 
 1 sxivpefs of his country had imposed on the burghers without caring to obtain the sanctic ii of 
 he Volksrftad. His wagon was seized, (after he had been roughly handled •!. and offered I'u- 
 sale in the nmrket-plac.e of the town, when its indignant owner appeared with a lew dctcrmiu- 
 Sd friends and carried it off. Constables were despatched to enforce tbe claim ^ of i,ii- K<'\ en- 
 •iie Coitliinssioner, but Bezuidenhout had many suji]r:'rters l.i,. that time and ilicy preidpicatel y 
 
todk tn tliijtit. Troops w;'rc teleKraplie"! for : meanwhile the Boers were meetinp; at raarrto- 
 kraal and cUTthii;- p, uovernniont, and iiroclainiinn- their independence; ]>ec. Htb to l:!th, ISSO. 
 
 The cnsuinji- \':ir proved disastrous to tlu> liritish, who were ambushed at lironkliurst Spruit, 
 ( Dec. '.Kith ). rc|Milscd,at La'Pii'S Nek, ( ,)an. isth ), and at Ingogo, ( Feb. Tth ), and completely de- 
 feated by a far infeinor force under Nikolas Bmit at MAJITISA HILL. l^eb. 27, wliere !ess than 
 200 lioers stiu-meil the British position, killed Gen. C'oUey, the comma,nder-in-chief. and nearly 
 102 men, and drove those not taken prisoners, in utter confusion from the mountain top. 
 
 liesiiles this, bodies of English were closely besieged in Potchefstroom, Rtamierton. Wakker- 
 
 •stroni, i;,ustenberg, Lvdenberg and I'retoria ; defending themselves with the gallant obstinacy 
 s.) characteristic of the soldier of Britain, but with Varying stua'ess. 
 
 Directly after their defeat at -M.a.luba, the ICiiglish made peace with the Boers and re-affirme 1 
 the Zand River Convention. A truly great man, ( Oi.adstonk \ then directed Britain's af- 
 
 fairs : a Minister whose generous cosm(!i>o]itanisin and ardent zeal i'orhis country's most endur- 
 ing glory, ])re\ailed over the base instincts of racial; factional, and personal ambition— lie rec- 
 ognized the full extent of the wrong that had been done and strove to refiair tliat wrong as far 
 as in his power lay. The Pretoria Convention of Aug. 18>^i specified British suzerainty over 
 
 an otherwise autonomous people, but this unwarrantable and unrighteous clause was omitted 
 from the subsecpnmt Convention of London signed iu Keb. 18S4; the complete independenee of 
 the Boer llepidjlic being thus tacitly admitted. 
 
 Pg. 15, Line 17. 
 
 " As T3fH Lf,ad-H<>i;sk.^ian's spell. " 
 The bearer of that potent talisman of lead, afiixed to his brazen breast, who (hnninated the fa- 
 tal loadstone nnnintain and, (amongst many others ), drew^t^ie ships of Agib, son of king Khes 
 ib, to swift destruction on its ro(d<y and iron-strewn base. The prince let My three nuigie ar- 
 rows at tlie rider and lo ! the spell was dissol\ed and horse fiiwl man engulfed Inthesea. -'The 
 Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, " Payne's tr, ^'illon Society, \<>\. i, pg. 12o. 
 
 Pg. 15, Line 23. 
 
 "Yet 'taws <T,AL"\rEi> fou 'riiESE jien; — " etc. 
 
 That the Uitlanders, ( non-citizen foreigners ) of the S. A. Republiit, were firmly and in some 
 instances autocratically ruled, is certain. BnW.hate\er treatment of this nature they un- 
 
 derwent was amply justified by the ]ieculiar conditions environing the State without, and also 
 by the increasing numbers, monarchical tendencies and menacing attitude of the immense al- 
 ien inliiix within. This foreign populaticni was almost entirely composed of miners ; mell 
 for the most part charing nothing for ac(iuiring citizen.shiii or fmmding permanent homes i)i the 
 i-ountry : but onl\- interested in elforts to extract the greatest possible ammint of com) from 
 tlie ground in the lc;ist iirkcticable time and chi'apest aecouiplishablc manner, and then re-em- 
 bark for their nativ' shores carrying their uuin.v'jsted wealth along with them. 
 
 OCIO.OOO whites in the ■• !;an<l" in Is'.ti., so per. cent, were E.\(iLisi[. W. V. Cami'Iiell, ( K. 
 & ?ilTig. Jcmr. vol. lxi\-. pg. :ii; >. Tin. artimi-Mif these lacter unnii,sta!<caWI\ e\ inced tlie hos- 
 tUe trend of their sentiments towards the little llepublie. 'Ihey refir-icd t" licai arms against 
 
the Kaffir tribes inenaeing the State, although proffered full liurgershi]) if they complied — thej' 
 njaniored that tliere wnsr.o education for their children, when the fact was, (and is, as the read- 
 er may easily ascertain for himself ), that several good DrTor schools v>'ere located in the Trans- 
 Aaal, liut they had ni) vvirih to make use of these ; for why ? — their posterity would tlien be- 
 
 come imbued with j;<)i:i; and US'-.i-ciu-iCAX ideas and syuipathies ! 
 
 ''Jhev iirotested again=t'the deservedly heavy taxes ; the only source from whi(di the (/luntry 
 could hope to deri\c any material benelit out of those who were draining it of its natural treas- 
 ures — they, and the great mob of the criminal and dissolute always met with in a lai-ge mining 
 cHnip, agitHteil for li(|U(u--saliions in pienty; which the I'oers, a sober people, strongly opposed; 
 but, abo\e all, they cried out thiat the franchise was denied them — as from the force of circuni- 
 stances it certainly \er>' pnipcrly was. until they bad been residents for 14 years, iiut l-t >ears 
 luul notalways been exacted by the liepablic. In l.sTC, iiiCFoi;!'; the precipitation ui)on herof a 
 foreign element in numbers nearly twi<te her entire pojyulatiou, on'k year's abode in the coun- 
 try conferred citizenship : ia liiSL' the term was increased to 5 years, and only extended to 14 af- 
 '\VM tlie wild rush to the newl>'-disco\ered gold-helds in 1»!)0. Kven then the Trans\'aal did 
 
 not attem ]it 1o ic ft! Ht ( 1 p7( libit (.migration— as the I'nited Staes has done without being 
 warred against by any of the foreign goNernments whose subjei-ts were thus exc]ude<l. 
 
 Had the former liberal fran"hise r(;mainert in force. th(_: malcontent l^ritish, (and it was from 
 Britons most of tlie clamor-arose ), would ha\e outvoted the rejjublicans in their own Volksraad 
 and handed the country over to England. 
 
 Ultericn- agency was busily at work among these dissatisfied adventurers to stir thein into 
 rebellion ; many of thegreat moneyed combinations of the world — suchasthe Kothehilds, Wer- 
 ner ]!eit & Co.. and others of the rascally stock-jobbers that disgrace our social eondiions and 
 r.iject no methods, howe\er mean or infamous, that appear conducive to the success of their fi- 
 nancial schemes : had insinua ted their mercenary and Intriguing (creatures, of whom Rhodes, 
 then Cape I'ermier, was chief, into the aiiairs of the Republic's till then orderly mining camp. 
 
 Pg. 16, Line 6. 
 
 "Tins .-MAX, (Ci'X'iL Rhodes,) insthlvtv:!) a katp. " 
 Cecil Rhodes, founder of Rhodesia, former Premier, director of railroads, man of millionf^ 
 and plotter to create an ITnited South Africa neither under ISoernoi- liritish flag ; stands prom-'' 
 incntly re\ea]ed by the search-ligVit of ircpiiry directed upon the immediate causes of this wan- 
 ton attempt to coerce the Af ril:.indfr-), as one of the prime movers in the iniciuitoiis (•onspii-u v 
 called "Jameson's Raid. " Witli the design of Jameson, the cat'.-;-]ia-\v, when, with Kliodes' 
 brother and a force of llechuana-land police, vS;c., under i)romincut iJumsii oihcers, o!i I>ec. 
 .jDth, 1*15, he started out on his brigand incursion into T;;aus\;ial territ(iry- to " redress tlie 
 v,-[-ongs of the llitlinders ;" nu^iy of the people of Johanr.esburg, instead of antii-iputiDg liis 
 coming as that of their sa\iour, evinced little symi)at]iy — soim,-, i'higli^^hmen to boot ! regirdcil 
 his undertaking wilb unconcealed dislike. Many conressjons bad l)ecn nuide to tliem by I'res. 
 KurnKU, and by ivitJent cndcaMir they knew much more might be aciiievcd. 
 
 The RKfornr C<imriiitee, howexer, armed and began fortilying. Hut all their hopes were ut- 
 terly destroyed by the disaster that betel the im^autious Jamcoon, who— lirct repulsed in a .skir- 
 
mish at Krnsersdorp — washcmineil in on all sides, at Dooh.nkoJ', by the vigilant lioprs pouimiia- 
 (leil l),v tlu" wil\ anil able (icii. I'ict ( 'ion jr. und conii'iaicd to surrender, after a loss of fjS killed 
 and wounded. ( Jan. l.=it, IsilG ). 'I'ten tlioy wei'e forced to throw thtni:iel',e.-i ujion the uierey 
 
 of the i)eople whcua they hud ur.jiistltiabl) outrag'ed. With the Draconian British Government 
 to deal with, ih-;atii would lune been their i>uniihn,ient ! Admirably had the Eeimblic. .iust 
 (lenionstrateil its staV)ility — no less praiseworthily did it nowdii^play a most extraor<linary mag- 
 nanimity. The offenders were only banished or fined, and Kngland, ( who had hastened after 
 their overthrow to disavow any inirt in their plot ), was expected to bring them to trial ; which 
 she never, sul)se(iuently, u)ade e\er. a pretence of doing ! 
 
 SeeKi.NC, ('■ Jameson's Raid," IrtKi. ) ; Youncii i :s];.\.Nn, ( " S. Africa of Today," 181)7. ); 
 JJifiELow, (" White JVlan's Africa, " 1898.); also GoNt. " Blue Boolcs " of the period. I ha^e, 
 besides, resorted, to trustv/orthy correspondence, with both parties, before lonning any opinions. 
 
 Pg. 16, Line 27. 
 
 " Like ruv. low-p.oh.n Rafflesia. " 
 
 I have not alluded to Chamberlain's humble origin to east any slur on those who honorably 
 ri.-;e from lowly beginnings — bu.t sjni]dy to add force to the simile. 
 
 The bi,iarre nalilesia Arnobli, disco\eied iiy losejih Arnold near Pulo Lebban, Sumatra, in Is- 
 18, is a parasitic rhizanth, or stemless and leafless root-dower, inhabiting the hot moist jungle. 
 
 '• He, " (. a nati\e ), " iiointed to a Hower growing close to the ground, under the bushes, wliicli 
 was truly astonishing — " *■ •*■ * '■ it measured a fuii yard across, 'the ]ietals being twel\e inches 
 liigli — " * * * '■ tlie nectarium, in the o; inion of iisall, w()(ild hold two pints, and the weight of 
 tins prodigy we ealculuted to be iif teen pounds. " J . A k>>(>li). 
 
 It grows in the old wood of a species of f issus, and emits so loathsr/uie an odor that flies afe 
 often attracted to it to deposit their eggs. 
 
 Pg. 17, Line 5. 
 
 "TlirS .srilEMEIl EOll STATION, ( TOK ('lIA:\n!lCl;LAIN NAMED)." 
 
 Of Josejih C'lif.mberlain, one is irresistibly i;npelled to cry out In the wsuxls of Cowley : 
 " Curst be the Man ( what do 1 wish ? as though 
 
 The wreicji already were not so 
 But curst on let him lie ) who thinks it brave 
 And great, Jiis Countrey to enslave. 
 Who seeks to overpoise a!')ne 
 The I'.alance of a Naticui * * * 
 Wlio of his Nation loves to oe the first 
 
 'I'hongh at the rate of being worst. 
 Who would lie rather a threat Monster^ than 
 A Well, p;-op irtiin'd Man. " 
 («'Di,?courseontheGo\t. ofO. (roiiiwell, ' 
 Chamberlain, the son of a wooil-screw malser, 
 abandoning his trade to more (Iiiigei't!> ';:i;o^i 
 Birmingham — 187;!,-4,-5, and was sent to ; :, -. :.. 
 since. Gladstone appointed, him Fres'^^-r.t 
 
 radical until 1886, when he disagreed wit'; f'.e « 
 ome day bring great r.'oiible upon the c.>r.iitr\ 
 111 ISSo he uiarried one of those j-'ch women o 
 
 " Works, Sth ed. ICiCl, pg. 
 
 -.0). 
 
 
 was born in Londiuiin is.'iil ; ( 
 
 rifted intoocniti 
 
 .•s. 
 
 : tiicni.in 1M4 : v.-as re])eate( 
 :. :,i in 1^V'^ m whicn iicliiis 
 
 ly elected inayoi 
 been returns <( e' 
 
 of 
 
 of tiic ];i,ard of Trnde, <;?id 1 
 
 e lio-UMi ' : !, ::■■ 
 
 
 !;-;i;;-l Old >:uij who. [irop!;^^ 
 
 01 g L 
 
 
 ; iiad iield hiin in i-licck wi 
 
 til a sn-oni; iu.im 
 
 
 f the i'nited t^tates always c 
 
 onteut to sacril 
 
 ce 
 
Kepui)Hcan principles and privileges for the shining gauds of social— aristocratic— distinction. 
 He is now Colonial Secretary, and a rahid imperialist — a determined persecutor of the lioers.; 
 whom he has, as occasion recjuired, alternately landed and decried. This wofnl lack of consis- 
 tency an<i of regard for the truth, together with his uncontrolahle ambition, constitute his evil 
 features. In many other respei'ts he is an extraordinary person, as e\inced hy his rapid 
 ac(iuirenLent and firm retention of ilo inconsiderable p.ower. And haNing dwelt upon his 
 
 glaring demerits, it would be manifestly unjust to (unit mention of some of his commendable 
 qualities-: which are patent to all when it is said that he is a good husband, a faithful friend, 
 a brilliant orator, and a politician pnK'tically incorruj)tilile. 
 
 As to his great as)iiration§ : the rremiership of (Ireat Britain and the an-'jexation of all of 
 South Africa to the Empire, this war will prol<ably wreck his schemes relating to the latter and 
 though he may attain to the former, it will not remain witli him long, for, even if the reaction 
 sure to take place in the popular mind, during or after the strife, does not displace him, some 
 other shrewiier, shiftier, or merely luckier politician assuredly Vt'ilL i.Tis fate niay be read in 
 '■the fourth book of C'owper's " Task : " 
 
 " The seals of office .glitter in his eyes, 
 
 He (dimbs, he, pants, he grasps them ; at his heels, 
 Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends 
 
 And 'With a dexterous jerk soon twists hint down, 
 And wins them but to lose them in his turn. " 
 Englishmen, admirers of Cliami)erlain, may denounce what I have stated derogatory to him ; 
 "nay. imagine it pro-]>oer libel. Let these read his speeches and study his acts with careful 
 
 attention, iirtd with the regard to eciual justice on both sides that is notable among the English 
 'people's trkits of character ; — I ask no more. 
 
 Pg. 17, Line 9. 
 
 "LiKK THE Wavfaui:h iiorsEi) I'.Y TiiK S.■v^^lt or oi.n. " 
 The Satyr in Esop's, v or ^Esoji's ), Fables,- who drew the dhilled Traveller into his cavern frtmi 
 the wind and snow ; and, horrified when his guest first blew on his hands to warm them and af- 
 terwards on the hot wine jirepared for him to cool it ; indignantly expelled hin\. The ap 
 
 ■ }dication warns us that, unless the tenor of a man's life be always true and c;)nsistent with it- 
 
 ■ self, thtVles's one has to do with him the better. ( Fabie Ixxiv. Croxall's ed. pgs. 153 and 15-i). 
 
 Rg. 17, Line 19. 
 
 "Ill^KlNG PAULKVS FOU PEACE." 
 
 The High Coiiimissioner, Alfred Milner at a conference held in June, 1899, declared that En- 
 gland would be satisfied if the S. A. Republic granted a five years franchise to the Uitlanders : 
 he had. however no right,— according to the terms of the London Convention, to i>roii()rie this, 
 or intefere at all. On Aug. 19th, the Republic Cfuiceded what had thus been illegally rccjuir- 
 
 td of it and desired that arl)itrators be appointed as soon as the franchise became operative. 
 
 Chamberlain rejected norii the concession and re(inest ; Fin- nearly a year croups had oc- 
 
 cupied positions along the Transvaal borderland to overawe its peoi>le : now Cliambcrlain be- 
 {^■an to mass them there, and on Sept. 19th, Milner teltgraphe^l to F'rcs. Steir:, (<-■, ;-leyti ', of 
 "the Orange Free State, that a portion, or all, of a detachment from theCape, xs.nibi Ifc posted 
 
took to flijvht; Troops wfre tcloo-raphod for : meaiiwliile the liner?, w-rc meetiiip; at Pannle- 
 Ivraal and electhisj; a troveniimMit, and proclainiiii,!;- tlieir independonco: lH>c. stls to i:;tli. isso. 
 
 The ensuiii.u; war jirovod disastrous to the ]!ritish, v/lio were aip.lnished at ]'vord<lHrrst !si>niit, 
 ( Dee. L'Oth), repulsed at Laui'^s Xid;, ( .Tar.. L'Stli ), and at Ing-ogo. ( Vv.h. Ttli), and completely de- 
 feated hy a far inleriov f'.rce antler N i koi..\s,Smit at M Ad 1 ' I'.A Hi LI.. Feb. 'JT, wlicri^ less than 
 :.n) i;.,ors stun. led, tlie !;i-ii:.i.-:h po.sition. killed (ien. Colley, the eoniniander-iri-cliitd', and nearly 
 1.,- liieu, and dr;.'\c tlmrio n (it tat. en prisoners, in ntter o(iT:fii.sion from the niount.aiii top. 
 
 !;e.jides this, liodie.:, of Ihijiiish were elowely hesieged in i'otehef.strooni, Rtanderton. Wakker- 
 stroiii, linstenberLV. Lvdiadifr-' and Pretoria ; de.fending themselves with the gallant obstinaey 
 so charaeteristic of the soldier of P.rltain, hut with \-arying snecess. 
 
 !)ire'-tlv al'ter their defeat at Majidin, the Eniiii.sh made peace with the Hoers and re-afiirnied 
 the Zand River Convention. A trnly i;-reat man, . (i ladstunk ), then directed r.ritain's af- 
 
 fairs ; a .Minister whose generous eosmopid.itanisiu andardent zeal forh.is country's most eminr- 
 ing glory, prevailed over the'b.ase instincts of racial, factional, and personal .■imb!ti<in — Me rec- 
 ognized the full extent of tl'.e wrong that had been done aud strode to repair that wrong as far 
 as in his power lay. The j'ret<n-ia f'onventif.n of .V.ig. IshI s!)ecdilc<l iiritish suzerainty over 
 
 an othttrv,'ise autono}nous people, but this unwarrantable and unrighteous (dausc was omitted 
 fnnn the subsetpient Convention of London signed ia Feb. 1>3S4; the eon)plete ind.ependenoe of 
 theJioer Uei>ublie being thus tacitly admitted. 
 
 Pg. 15, Line 17. 
 
 " As THK Ltcad-Hoksioian's rtf.lt.. " 
 The bearer of that potent talisman of lead, affixed to his brazen lireast, who dominated the fa- 
 tal loadstone r.uuintain and. ( nniorigst many others ), drew tlie ships of .\gil>, son of king Ivlies- 
 ill, to swift destruction on its rocky and. iron-strewn base. The prince lot Hy three magic ar- 
 
 rov.s attheridierand lo ! the spell was dissolved and horse and man engulfed In the sea. ''The 
 Book of the Thousand Xights and One ^Mght, " rAv_NE's tr, Villon Society, vol. i, pg. 123. 
 
 Pg. 15, Line 23. 
 
 " Ykt 'taws cr..\iMKi) Foi: TifESK jif.n; — " etc. 
 
 That the Kitianders, ( non-citizen foreigners) of the S. A. Republlt^ were firmly and in some 
 instancies autocratically ruled, is certain. Ihit whate\er treatment of tiiis nat'.'.i'e tbcv un- 
 
 derwent was amply justilied by the peculiar conditions en\ Ironing tlie State with.out. ;ind also 
 by the increasing numbers, monarchical tendentdes .and leenacing attitude of the immense al- 
 ien influx within. Thi.s fm-cign jxiioikition was almost entirely composed c,f miners ; men 
 for the most part caring nothing for accpiii-isig citizeJiship or founding permanent liom(!s in the 
 country : but only interested in edorts to extract the greatest possible .amount c,f laiLD froro 
 the ground in the lea.st iiracticable time am! ciica])cst :H'Ti.inidisliable manner, and then re-em- 
 ))ark for their nati\'e -i^-.i >;■■._'- c^ir-rying their iunn\'csted \i't'ailb ahuij;- witii them. 
 
 Oi'fOjdOO -whites in the ■• fjand '' in ]s!!i;. s() per. <-ent. were Knc.i.isii. vV. Y. Ca:mi'!;k,j,i., (ii. 
 & .A!ng. .I.our. vol. Ixiv, pg. 'J<j ). The accionsof u\> a: l.-rctor airci.stakcaidy c\ii'.<'.;d tiJc hos- 
 tUe trend of their !»entiu)ents towards the little Kepiiblie. 'Jhcy rcfiised to Ijcir arurs agauiit 
 
the Kaffir tribei5 menacing the Btate, although proffered full burgership if they complied — they 
 ciamoi'c'il that there was no edneation for their children, when the fa(^t was, (and is, a,s the read- 
 er may easily ;;sc(M-tain for himself), that several good DrTcii schools were located in the Trans^- 
 vaal, liut tlicy had no wish to make use of these ; for why ? — their posterity would tlien lie- 
 
 coiiie imbueil with lloEH and KKin ulican ideas and sympathies ! 
 
 Thev ])rotcstf'd against the deservedly heavy taxes ; the only source from which the (!o\nitry 
 couUI hf>pe to derive any material benefit out of those who were draining it of its natural treas- 
 nres — they, and the great mob of the criminal and dissolute always met with in a large mining 
 camp, agitated for li(|uor-saloons in plenty; whiith the iJoers, a soberpeople, strongly opposed; 
 but, above all, they cried out that the franchise was denied them — as from the for(re of ('ircum- 
 Btknces it certainly very projierly was, until they had been residents for 14 years. J!ut 14 years 
 had not always been exaitted by the Ueiuiblic. In ISTC, iskfouk the precipitation upon her of a 
 foreign elcmelit in nundjers nearly twic^e her entire jioijulation, (Ine year's aboiie in the (xum- 
 try (^■lhferred citizensTii]) ; in 1882 the term was increased to 5 years, and only extended to 14 av- 
 'n;i; the wild rush to the newly-disc<ivered gold-tields in 1890. Even then the Transvaal did 
 
 not attem I't 1(> itf-trii t < r pi( hibit emigration— as the United Staes has done without being 
 warred against b>- any of the foreign governments whose subjects were thus excluded. 
 
 Had the former liberal' fran.'hise remained in force, the malcontent J^.ritish, (and it was from 
 Britons most of the clamor arose ), would have outvoted the republicans in their own Volksraad 
 and handed the country over to Englalid. 
 
 Ulterior agency was busily at work among these dissatisfied advehtiTrers to stir them into 
 rebellion : many of the great m.<neye<l cosnbinations of the world — such as thc> Itothrhilds, Wer- 
 ner r.eJt & Co., and others of the rascally stock-jobbers that disgrace our social coudiions and 
 reject no methods, however mean or infanujtts, that appear condtn i\e to the success of their fi- 
 nancial schemes ; hatl insinua teil their mercenary and intriguing creatitres, of whom Rhodes, 
 then Capo Fermier, was chief, into the affairs of the Kcpublic's till then orderly mining camp. 
 
 Pg. 16, Line 6. 
 
 "This i\r.\.N, (CEf:iL Rhodes,) i.xsxifiATKn A uatd. " 
 Cecil Rhodes, founder of Rhodesia, foruior I'reniier. director of railroads* man of millions, 
 and plotter to crpate an United South Africa neither under Boer nor IJritish flag ; stands prom- 
 inently revealed by the seai-cli-lhiiit of in piiry (;ircctcd upon the immediate causes of this wan- 
 ton attenvpt to coerce the A fr!U:iuder,>, as oiicof the ]iriinc mo\ers in the iniquitous consjiiracy ! 
 called "Jameson's Raid. "■ With the design of Jameson, the cat's-paw, when, with Rhodes' I 
 brother and a force of liech\iana-land ])olice. cVrc., under i)rominent l!i;tTi.sn ofH('ers, on Dec. 
 30th, is;i5, he started out on his bi'igand incursion into Trans'.aal territin-y to " redress the 
 wr(-ngs of the Uitlanders ; " many of the jicoplc of Jolianncsbarg, instead of anticipr.tiug his 
 coniing as that of their saviour, evinced little s\ iiijiathy— some, Kngli..ibiuen to boot ! regarded 
 his Undertaking with unconcealed dislike. Many concessions liad been iiiadc to th(in ii> i'res. 
 Kki;gf.k, and by patient endeavor they knew much miu-e might !ie achi..'\ cd. 
 
 The Ri'furni Coujmitee, hou'ever, armed and began fortilying. J'.nt all tlitir iiopcs were ut- 
 terly destroyed by the disaster that befel the incautious Jameson, who— lii-st repulsed in a skir- 
 
mish atKrngerstlorp— wa9?iemiiie(l in on all sides, at DoonxKor, by the vigilant Boers ooranina- 
 (led by the wily and able (len. I'iet Cronje, and compelled to surrender, after a loss of 58 killed 
 and wounded. ( Jan. 1st, 1S96). Tten they were forced to throw themselves upoh the mercy 
 of the i)eople whom they had unjustifiably outrag-ed. With the Draconian British Government 
 to deal with, nEArii would have been their punishment ! Admirably had thp Republic just 
 demonstrated its stability— no less praiseworthily did it now disi)lay a most extraordinary mag- 
 nanimity. The olfenders were only banished or fined, and England, ( who had hastened after 
 their overthrew to disavow any part in their plot), was expected to bring- them to trial ; which 
 she ne\er, subsequentlN', made e\en a pretence of doing ! 
 
 SeeKiNC, ('-Jameson's Kaid, " ISiHi. ) ; Y()tT.\OHUSuA:\D, ( " S, Africa of Today," 1S97. ); 
 Bjoki.ow, (" 'SVhite Man's Africa, " IKUS.); also Ciovt. " Blue Books " of the period. 1 have, 
 besides, resorted to trustworthy correspondence, with both parties, before forming any opinions, 
 
 Pg. 16, Line 27. 
 
 " LiKi: TJ!E LOWBOUN RAFFLESIA. " 
 
 ' I have not alluded to Chand)erlain's humble origin to <;ast any slur on those who honorably 
 rise from lowly beginnings — but sim]>]y to add force to the simile. 
 
 The bizarre ItalHesia Amoldi, disccn'ered by .Joseph Arnold near Rulo Lebban, Sumatra, in 1«- 
 18, is -a parasitic rhizanth, or stemless and leafless root-flower, inhabiting the hot moist jiuijj'le. 
 
 •' He, " ( a native ), " pointed to a flower growing close to the ground, under the bushes, wlijcb 
 'was truly astonishing— " * * * " it measured a fail yard across, the jietals being twel\e inches 
 high—" "* * * '■ the nectarium, in the o) inion of us" all, would hold two pints, and the weight of 
 this prodigy we calculated to be fifteen iiounds. " i J. Arnold. 
 
 It grows in the (dd wood of a species of Cissiis, and emits so loathsome aa odor that flies are 
 often attracted to it to deposit their eggs. 
 
 Pg. 17, Line 5. 
 
 "TurS ROHF.MElt FOR STATION, ( TOE ClTA JLBERLATN NAMED)." 
 
 Pf Joseph Chamberlain, one is irresistibly impelled to cry out In the w<u'ds of C(,)WLEy : 
 " Curst be the 31an ( what do I wish '/, as though 
 
 The wretch already were not so 
 ButGurst on let him be ) who thinks it brave 
 And great, liis ('ountrey to enslave. 
 "Who seeks to oserpoise ahme 
 The Balance of a Nation * * * 
 Who of his Nation lo\es to be the first 
 
 Though at the rate of being worst. 
 Who would l^e rather a great Monster, than 
 A We!i, pi'oiKirtion'd Man. " 
 (" Discourse on the Govt, of (>. Croiuwejl, " Works, 8th ed. l(ii).", pg. 59). 
 .Chamberlain, the son of a wood-screw maker, was bcum in London in lSo(i ; drifted into politics, 
 aliandoning his trade to more diligently pursue them, in 1874 ; was repeatedly elected mayiM'of 
 liirmingham — ls7,'.,-S,-r>, and was sent to Parliament ill 1871!, to whicli he has been retui'r.ei! e ,er 
 since. filadstone appointed liirii Tresident of tl'.e ]?oar<i of Trade, and Vie jiosed a.-- an nitric 
 
 rH<lical until iss-'i, when he disagreed with the (,)i-aiid ohl Mdit who, ii-ophesying tiiat lie would 
 fjoiiie day l.iring great ;'ouble upon, the country ; hud held hiiu in clieids with a strong hand. 
 Ill 188G he iuarried one of those rich >yomen of the United i-^tates ahv:i\s content to sacrifice 
 
Repul)li('an priiiciiiles and privileges for the shir.ing gaudr, of sorial — aristocratic — (llstinc'trmn.' 
 He is now Colonial Secretary, and a rabid inijierialist — a determined persecutor of tiie ISoers ; 
 whom he has, as (<e(;asion re<jiured, alternately lauded and <lccried. This woful lack of consis- 
 tency and of regard for the truth, together with his uncontrolable ambition, constitute his evil 
 features. In ]uany other respects he is an extraordinary person, as eviilced by his rajiid 
 acquirement and firm reteiiti(n:i of no inconsideraiiie power. And having dwelt upon his 
 
 glaring demerits-, it would be manifestly urtjitst to omit mention of smiie of his coimnondal)!e 
 (]ualities ; which are patent to all when it is said that he is a good husband, a. faithf al friend, 
 a Ijriliiant (u-ator, and a politician practically incorruptible. 
 
 As to his great aspirations : the Premiership of (ireat JJritain and the a«:TP?Eation of all of 
 South A f rica to the Kmpire, this war will probably wreck his schemes relating to the latter and 
 though he JLiay attain to the former, it will not remain with hiiu long, for, even if the reacfion' 
 sure to take place in the popular mind, during or after the strife, does not disi>lace him, some 
 other shrewder, shiftier, or ujcrely luckier politician assuredly will. His fate may be read in 
 the fourth book of C'owper's "Task : " 
 
 "The seals of ollice glitter in his eyes, 
 
 lie climbs, he pants, he grasps them ; at his heels, 
 Close at hi.s heels, a demagogue ascends 
 
 And with a dexterinis jerlc'lsoon twists him down. 
 And wins them but to lose them in his turn." 
 Englishmen, admirers of Chamberlain, may denounce what I have stated derogatory to him ; 
 nay imagine it ]>ro-l!oer libel. Let these read his speeches and stud.y his acts with careful 
 
 attention, and with the regard to eipial justice on both sides that is notable among the English 
 people's traits of character ; — I ask no more. 
 
 Pg. 17, Line 9, 
 
 "Like the Wavfaueu iiorsEO hn' tiie Satyk of old. " 
 The Fatyr in Esop's, ( or ^Esop's), Fat)les, who drew the dhilled Traveller into hlscavei-n froni 
 the wind and snow ; an(^ horritied when his guest lirst blew on his hands to warm them and af- 
 terwards on the hot wine prepared for him to co(d it ; indignantly expelled him. The ap 
 plication warns us that, unless the tenor of a man's life be always true and consistent with it- 
 self, the less one has to do with him the better. ( Eabie Ixxiv. Croxall's ed. pgs. 153 and ir>l). 
 
 Pg. 17, Line 19. 
 
 "DruiNG faulevs von i-eace. '" 
 
 The High Commissioner, Alfred Milner at a conference held in June, ISOO, declared that En- 
 gland would be satisfied if the S. A. Republic granted a five yeai-s franchise to the I'itlauders ; 
 he had, however no right,— according to the terms of the London Convention, to propose this, 
 or intefere at all. On Aug. IDth, the Republic conceded what had thus been illegally re<piir- 
 
 cd of it and desired that arbitrators be appointed as soon as the franchise because operative. 
 
 Chamberlain rejectc(i corn the concession and reijiiest ! Vov nearly a year troops iiad oc- 
 
 cupied iiositions along the Transvaal borderland to overawe its peoidc ; now Chamberlain be- 
 gan to mass them there, and on Sept. 19th, Milner telcgia|ihcd to I'res. Stein, { r.c Steyn \ of 
 the Orange Free State, that a portion, or all, of a aetacluneut fioji; the Caiie, Wvyuhl be i)Obted 
 
on that country's frontier " to keep open communications ! " Pres. Stein replied tliat his 
 
 burghers vpould regard such action as a menace, and on Oct. 1st, sent s<ddiers to his own side 
 of the border. The S. A. Rei>ul)lic had previously done likewise ; and, on Oct. 0th, deman- 
 
 ded the withdrawal of England's rapidly increasing armament, which now had become so for- 
 midable as to no longer lea^e Chamberlain's intentions in the slightest doubt, and again asked 
 for AuniruATiox— to which no answer was returned ! War had becun when the armies of 
 
 England encamped near the two Republics: it was formally declared on the 11th of the present 
 month, by the Transvaal President. Mark Chamberlain's subsequent utterance of the IDth : 
 •' The Transvaal and Free State have an ideal which is dangerous to Great ISritain. " ! ! 
 
 Pg. 18, Line 20. 
 
 '•Thk plea that df.ckives. " 
 
 •ivii.izATKiN of the worhl ! England has not determinedly bent 
 
 advancfment inlands under h.er rule or •' jjrotection ;" as, for 
 
 the slave markets of Zanzibar and Fengu,— pi-e\enti(m of famines 
 
 hment of the notorious tratllc in girls, prevalent in Afghanistan,— 
 
 revolting Whitecliapel slums,— etc. Hut she is forceful and lav- 
 
 iBii ^. ■ ■ , when her self-styled ad\ancement of progress presents a prospe<'t 
 
 of COLONIAL E.\]•A.^,-.,._.: Chamberlain's llrst plea for interference was " HiUandcr rights ;" 
 
 now his excuse is that " Great Britain must be paramount in South Africa ! " 
 
 Pg. 19, Line 6. 
 
 "AXD, — LIKE ]3in-:N.M:S TIIH fiAlIL'S,— " 
 
 Brennus, about 300 B. ("'., had led his 70,000 i'urifuis Senones frem the icy regions of the Bal- 
 tic to the sunny plains of glowing Italy, and hurled them upon Rome ; whose defenders, rout- 
 ed on the banks of the Allia, had sought hasty refuge witliin the Capitol. The Gaulish king- 
 swept city and suburbs With sword and fire, and besieged the Romans for six months, when— 
 starvation lowering the spirits of both contestants — peace was projxiscd. The Romans agi'ccd 
 to pay a thousand weight of gold ; the metal was procured and waabcing weighed, wdicn the 
 Gauls kicked and overturned the beam. Brennus replied to the remonstrances of the men 
 
 of Rome by casting his sword and belt into the scale, and declared the action signilied " Woe 
 to the eou(iuered. " Much enraged, the Romans began disputing, when suddenly, Camillus 
 \yhom they had lately exiled, apjieared, leading a numerous army, removed the treasure, ami 
 admonished the dlscomlited barbarian: •' that it was the custom of the Romans to ransom their 
 country not with gold ^ biit with iron. " Subsequently the armies engaged, and the Gauls 
 
 were nearly annihilated. See I'Li-TAurn,( " Lives, Camillus, "Tonson's 1727 ed. \-ol. ii, pg.oo), 
 also Akn<->li>, ( " History of Rome " ), It is also aftirmed he threw in the sword to augment 
 
 the ransom, which FoLVBirs, [ " Praginateia, ( Hist, of Rome, ) " Bekker, ia44] ; rejecting the 
 {idvent of Camillus, says he effected a safe departure with. 
 
 Pg. 19, Line 10. 
 
 "As Falkensteix's Cduxt's ran chaxged into SAxn. " 
 A legend of the Castle of Falkeusteiu, Germany. ( " Leg. of the Hartz Mts : The Cave of the 
 
Oolilcn Treasure. " iii, 1872 ). Ticlian, shepherd of tbe Count of Falkenstein, loved Elsbeth 
 
 ]'.nisc)i, whose father, a well-to-do faniier, insolently refused to permit him to marry her, until 
 " lie co-iiil show a pocket full of g'lld ; " of which — the young- man beirg very poor and honest, 
 there apjiiTirod to he, in those times, very little likelihood. lUit, one evening, a beautiful flow- 
 er, '• ;.',iov. fiig M'ith a clear, cold, brightness " that encirclefl it with lovely hues of blue, oranji'e 
 and ifisc ; met his eyes, and he Was about to gather itfor Elsbeth, when a sweet little voice is- 
 i'wci} from it, crying " Oh ! pray do not hurt me, my good friend ! " He forbore ; a tiny EIJ ,, 
 
 discugngcd'hiniselC from the beauteous tl' 'er, and grateful for the kindness Tidian had sho'vvn ' 
 him, g n c hi'.n a Horal guide to a caverr .ed with light and music anil— heaped with golden 
 treasures! lie \\'as bidden to help i self, but never disclose the source from which thi; 
 abundriUic ilowod, else misfortunes would surely fall heavily upon him. 
 
 He iM-irricd ICIslicth, lii>n;;ht hi« freed<p.u, and prospered for awhile ; but the Coi 
 suspicious of his former serf and having received a bracelet of gold friunhim on h 
 of a young lady, and learning of large sales of precious metal made l)y the impru 
 man ; he had Tidian co7i veyed to his castle and cmfronteil with a dungeon and tori I 
 
 Tidian re\'ealcd tlie secret, ',;pon which they sh,, red the treasure for awhile, but th ! 
 
 nobleuuin resolved to posse^s the whole, stabbed Tidian, deprived him of speech ar \ 
 
 hurled hiui on some rocks, to eventually breathe his last in the arms of Elf-guided _._ 
 
 Falki'usteih proceeded to tlie cave— it was dark and still ; he had filled a satd-r, when it light-' 
 ened. in liis grasji, and forth ilowed yellov>' sand, while a voi(te cried : 
 
 '■ ISegone, thou cruel murderer, Withdraw thy blooil-staiued hand. 
 In vain thou seekest treasure. Thou shalt only grasp the sand ! " 
 Furious, he snat(died at burs of g')ld, they crumbled to worthle.s3 grains at his touch ;— he hur- 
 ried to lii^ castle, the ri(dies in its treasury changed in his hands to sand ; which flowed, as he 
 fled shrieking, from room to ro(uu — hemmed him in— rose around him— rcdled a\er him— stitleu 
 his breathing with its yellow tide ;— and the poor shepiierd was avenged ! ' 
 
 Pg. 19, Line 21. 
 
 " Fol^ wiiKX England ukfi.eots on the wvitFAiir. of shame." ' j 
 
 This war gives ample promise of being pndonged and bitter ; already the ISoers.— brave, ste( ' 
 ,iast men -vi^hose c<uirage has been shamefully underated.— have given most significant proofs ( 
 their true mettle at the battles of Tahuia Hill (, Oct. 20), Klandslaagie, (iilst), Dundee, ( 22nd ),. 
 and Rietfontein, ( 21th ). 
 
 I ha\e much confidence in the outcome of the final decision of the English People concern- 
 ing this coiiibct : they are, in the main, reasonable and ^nst, and — though at present inveigled 
 into ai'i'arr.il sauction of their <io\ernment's inexcusable policy by cunning politicians and 
 niachiiKiliiig liu'uiciers— a i-'IsAction will siuselv, sooneii ok lateu, ensfe. 
 
 And if this little work conduces, even in the smallest dCgree, towards that virturous reaction 
 by tending ti> culighteu them and the world as to the full extent of the enormities perpetrate(l 
 iipon a frcedom-loN ing people ; itu.author will not regret the labor expended on it. 
 
 / The End. 
 
At a meetixg op Friends in 02^1^ op the cofxtky towxs op 
 England, the case op a ma^t who had sl'ppered a seveke loss op 
 "worldly possessions through isto pault op his own, was presented 
 POR RELiEP. . Many eloquent expressions of sympathy, ending 
 
 AViTII "I PEEL POR HIM," , HAD BEEN JIADE. At LAST, AN OLD FrIEND 
 
 rose and ,said: "I peel £ 10 por him, how much dost thee peel?" 
 
 A NEW "feeling" pervaded the meeting Ajfp restored the 
 bankrupt to comport. 
 
 APPLICATION. 
 
 This AV AS sound, practical, com:\[ON sense. And as the old 
 
 Quaker sym pathized with hui Fortune had despoiled, so should we 
 WiTPi THE Boers prom whom Britain is, a third tijie, takin(; their ali,. 
 
 Let money be raised, let volunteers join them ; let the voice 
 
 OP the PREEDOM-LOYING people op this country and EN(iLAND AND 
 THE WORLD, SIGNIFY TO THEIR GOVERNMENTS THAT A BRAVE, UNoPPEND- 
 ING PEOPLE MUST BE PROTECTED AND PRESERVED PROM THE ATTACKS OP LAW-. 
 
 LESS Monarchy ; and, above all ; 
 
 Let English goods be boycotted to Tjiic fullest extent ! 
 
CONSISTENCY ! 
 
 "To goto war with Pres. Kruger to enforce 
 upon him reforms, — that would be immoral.'' 
 
 ClIAIMBEULAIX, MaY StII, 1899. 
 
 DEl'ltEOATIXG WAK OK TUE S. A. REPUBLIC. 
 
 " Great Britain must remain the para= 
 niout power in South Africa. " 
 
 CiiAMBiCRi,Ai>", Oct. IOtii, 1899. 
 
 Ain'ooATn-x: -wai; o^- tuk S. A. EKiTBur 
 
v^:'t>r 
 
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