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Somos Primos Staff Mimi Lozano, Editor Mercy Bautista Olvera Bill Carmena Lila Guzman John Inclan Galal Kernahan Juan Marinez J.V. Arthur Conan Doyle. Published by Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1. The following text is that of the upated 1. TABLE OF CONTENTSDuring the course of the war some sixteen Editions of this. I hope, a little more full and accurate. I may fairly claim, however, that the absolute. I have never had occasion to. I have formed. In this final. Of the. various episodes in the latter half of the war it is impossible to say that the. By the aid, however. I. have done my best to give an intelligible and accurate account of the matter. Of the. correspondents upon whose work I have drawn for my materials, I would. Messrs. Burleigh, Nevinson, Battersby, Stuart. Amery, Atkins, Baillie, Kinneir, Churchill, James, Ralph, Barnes, Maxwell. Pearce, Hamilton, and others. Especially I would mention the gentleman who. Standard\' in the last year of the war, whose accounts of. Vlakfontein, Von Donop\'s Convoy, and Tweebosch were the only reliable ones. ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, Undershaw, Hindhead: September 1. Take a community of Dutchmen of the type of those who defended. Spain at a time when Spain. Intermix with them a strain of those. French Huguenots who gave up home and fortune and left their country. Edict of Nantes. The product must. Take this formidable people and train them for seven generations in. Then, finally, put a finer temper upon their military qualities by a. Old Testament religion and an ardent and consuming patriotism. Our military history has largely consisted in our. France, but Napoleon and all his veterans have never treated us. Look at the map of South Africa, and there, in the very centre of the. British possessions, like the stone in a peach, lies the great stretch of the. Who. are these Teutonic folk who have burrowed so deeply into Africa? It is a. twice- told tale, and yet it must be told once again if this story is to have. No one can know or appreciate the. Boer who does not know his past, for he is what his past has made him. It was about the time when Oliver Cromwell was at his zenith – in. Dutch made their first. Cape of Good Hope. The Portuguese had been there before them. Some gold there was, but not much, and the Portuguese. Great Britain signs her huge cheque for Delagoa Bay. A hundred miles of. For centuries. these pioneers of South African colonisation strove to obtain some further. That very rudeness of climate which had. Portuguese adventurer was the source of their success. Cold. and poverty and storm are the nurses of the qualities which make for empire. It. is the men from the bleak and barren lands who master the children of the light. And so the Dutchmen at the Cape prospered and grew stronger in. They did not penetrate far inland, for they were few in. But they built. themselves houses, and they supplied the Dutch East India Company with food and. Wynberg, Stellenbosch, and. Karoo to. the Valley of the Zambesi. Then came the additional Huguenot emigrants –. France three hundred of them, a handful of the choicest seed. Teutonic strain. Again. Normans, the Huguenots, the. Emigres, one can see the great hand dipping into that storehouse and sprinkling. France has not founded other. The Rouxs, Du Toits. Jouberts, Du Plessis, Villiers, and a score of other French names are among the. South Africa. For a hundred more years the history of the colony was a record of the. Afrikaners over the huge expanse of veld which lay to. Cattle raising became an industry, but in a country where. Six thousand acres was the usual size, and five pounds a year the rent. Government. The diseases which follow the white man had in Africa. America and Australia, been fatal to the natives, and an epidemic of. Further and further north they. Graaf- Reinet and. Swellendam, where a Dutch Reformed Church and a store for the sale of the bare. Already the. settlers were showing that independence of control and that detachment from. Europe which has been their most prominent characteristic. Even the sway of the. Dutch Company (an older but weaker brother of John Company in India) had caused. The local rising, however, was hardly noticed in the universal. French Revolution. After twenty years, during. Titanic struggle between England and France. Cape Colony. was added in 1. British Empire. In all our vast collection of States there is probably not one the title- . We had it by two. In 1. 80. 6 our troops. Cape Town. In 1. 81. Stadholder for the transference. South American land. It was a bargain which was probably made. As a. house of call upon the way to India the place was seen to be of value, but the. What would. Castlereagh or Liverpool have thought could they have seen the items which we. The inventory would have been a mixed. Kaffir wars, the greatest diamond mines in. South Africa of peace and prosperity, with equal rights and equal duties for. The future should hold something very good for us in that land, for if. But surely the. most arduous is the most honourable, and, looking back from the end of their. The title- deeds to the estate are, as I have said, good ones, but there is. The ocean has marked three. There is no word of the. Hinterland; \' for neither the term nor the idea had then been thought of. Had. Great Britain bought those vast regions which extended beyond the settlements? In that question lay the. An American would realise the point at issue. United States the Dutch. State of New York had trekked to the westward and. Then, when the American. States, they would be face to face with the. If they found these new States. American and extremely unprogressive, they would experience that. At the time of their transference to the British flag the colonists –. Dutch, French, and German – numbered some thirty thousand. They were. slaveholders, and the slaves were about as numerous as themselves. The prospect. of complete amalgamation between the British and the original settlers would. Five thousand British emigrants were landed in 1. Eastern borders of the colony, and from that time onwards there was a slow. English speaking colonists. The Government had the. British rule. It was mild. On the whole, it might have done. But to change. the habits of the most conservative of Teutonic races was a dangerous venture. South Africa. The Imperial Government has always taken an honourable. We hold and rightly, that British justice, if not. The view is irreproachable in theory. Boston moralist or a London philanthropist upon men whose whole society has. Such a. people like to find the higher morality for themselves, not to have it imposed. They feel. – and with some reason – that it is a cheap form of virtue which. Beacon Street or Belgrave. Square, prescribes what the relation shall be between a white employer and his. Both branches of the Anglo- Celtic race. The British Government in South Africa has always played the unpopular part. It was upon this very point. A rising with bloodshed followed the arrest of a Dutch farmer. It was suppressed, and five of the participants. This punishment was unduly severe and exceedingly injudicious. A. brave race can forget the victims of the field of battle, but never those of. The making of political martyrs is the last insanity of. It is true that both the man who arrested and the judge who. Dutch, and that the British Governor interfered on. It is typical of the enduring resentment. Jameson raid, it seemed that the. Cookhouse Drift to Pretoria, that the Englishmen. Dutchmen had died in 1. Slagter\'s Nek marked the dividing. British Government and the Afrikaners. And the separation soon became more marked. There were injudicious. English for Dutch in the law courts. With vicarious generosity, the English. Government gave very lenient terms to the Kaffir tribes who in 1. And then, finally, in this same year there came the. British Empire, which fanned all. It must be confessed that on this occasion the British philanthropist was. It was a noble national action. British. Parliament should vote the enormous sum of twenty million pounds to pay. It was as well that the thing. With many a grumble the good British householder drew his purse from. If any special grace. We spent our money, we ruined. West Indian colonies, and we started a disaffection in South Africa, the. Yet if it were to be done again we should. The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom. But the details of the measure were less honourable than the principle. It. was carried out suddenly, so that the country had no time to adjust itself to. Three million pounds were ear- marked for South Africa. Finally, the compensation was made. London, so that the farmers sold their claims at reduced prices to. Indignation meetings were held in every little townlet and cattle. Karoo. The old Dutch spirit was up – the spirit of the men. Rebellion was useless. But a vast untenanted land stretched. The nomad life was congenial to them, and in their huge. Gaul – they had vehicles and homes and forts all in one. Their herds and flocks accompanied the migration. One tattered little. He was a small item in. Paul. Stephanus Kruger. It was a strange exodus, only comparable in modern times to the sallying. Mormons from Nauvoo upon their search for the promised laud of. Utah. The country was known and sparsely settled as far north as the Orange. River, but beyond there was a great region which had never been penetrated save. It chanced – if there be. Zulu conqueror had swept over this land and left it untenanted, save by the. There were. fine grazing and good soil for the emigrants.
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