Identifier: southafric00colv (find matches)
Title: South Africa
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Colvin, Ian Duncan, 1877-1938
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Publisher: London Edinburgh, T.C. & E.C. Jack
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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of time to try to disentanglethem. The British Government had allowed Moshesh,the chief of the Basutos, certain treaty rights, and hehad formed a great nation of the broken tribes left byMoselekatse, and established himself in the mountaincountry round the head waters of the Orange. Thenwest of him was a Griqua clan, commanded by a half-breed called Adam Kok. The Griquas were themselveshalf-breeds, the children of the Dutch farmers and theirHottentot servants, and these people had graduallyformed a clan system of their own. West of themagain was another half-breed clan under Waterboer.Besides these there were tribes of Bushmen andBechuanas scattered here and there over the vastregions west and north, and there were several distinctparties of emigrant farmers, some, under men likeOberholster, friendly to the British Government, andothers under irreconcilables like Mocke, a mischief-maker who had already given trouble in Natal, hostileto colonial rule. All these tribes and clans and290
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THE FAMILY QUARREL sections were more or less inimical the one to the other,and the Colonial Government, sadly hampered bymissionary influences, Kafir wars and Colonial Officeinterference, followed a timid and spasmodic policy, ifpolicy it could be called. But then came our old friend Harry Smith, nowSir Harry and Governor of the Colony, with a greatcareer as a soldier behind him, and somewhat advancedin years, but with fire and energy unabated. With hisarrival all was changed. He told the farmers that hemeant to take over the country from the Orange tothe Vaal; he tried to reconcile Pretorius, who hadfought against Captain Smith and had recently beendirely insulted by Sir Harrys predecessor, who hadrefused to see the fine old Boer warrior when he cameto Cape Town to present some grievances. Sir Harryalso set Adam Kok in his right place and reconciledMoshesh to the change. All this he did with the zealand fine dramatic fury peculiar to his nature. He weptover the Boers and threatened

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