l~

thence up along the most south-westerly spru it to the source

thereof, and t hence in a straight line up to the outside of the

established line of the South African .. e,cmb ,ic, and t henme wi t -

h the same line which runs the great wagon road which goes fmam

the ;jal t r an and along the 'rransvabl.l li ne up to t he beacon on the

Rooigrond by the clurap of trees, and thence ali!mg that line to

the beacon at Bu ur.mansdrift, and chen t o t he point of Ramatlaba-

l.a.a, a nd from the point Rama tla'oama, back in a s t l'aigh t line to

t he beacon to be erected 1760 {1,700}yurds above the side ofit:t

t he t own Mafikeng, while in addi tion shall be excl uded the place

Rietfon tein which shall be given to Machavio

l8.)Both undersigning parties as s ent hereby after the passi ­

ng of this agreement to hold t hemselves strictly notjoc to

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accept any new inhabitants or natives at present beyond

t h is territory , or to cause them to come or live in it

without the previous knowledge and concurrence of the

Government of the South African .epublic, nor shail any

white inhabitants be allowed within our land unless .

they will take the oath of allegiance to the South _fr-

ican Republic . <,~Ij,~

eeing that the now too-long waged war has not / occasion-

ed great injury, laying waste , b l oodshed in consequence

of which a great runount of debt liab i lity has been i~cu-

rred by the :Great Chicf 1 oshe te and his people, it is

hereby agreed that the Captain Montshiwa binds himself

and his 11eople to ay for war expenses the sum of Sixteen

thousand pounds (£16,0 ) aterling, in which is included

£4,000 which has been incurred by lloshete and occasi aned

by an ar.mstice di s tinctly asked for by Uontshiwa and oon-

curred in by us. This amount shall be paid by Monthhi -I

wa wi t h in one 1 onth from ate in good current money or I

real value.

aO. All cat t le and goods which have be8n taken in booty du­ring

the war by the host ile pa.rties shaill remain the lawful property

of the possess ors but all stolen cat t le or goods taken from pe -

rsons who have not been connected with the war shall be immedia-

tely iven or the value thereof paid to the owner , with such re ­e j-w;(,.

asonable amount for damage as shall be just ~ right .

21 . fter the conclusion of ~his con4 tract of peace, no . co · ~

mplaints in rega rdf to former misdeeds perpetra.ted b 4ifo -

re t he beginning of hostilities by either of the parties

shall be brought up against them, but this :geace shal l (;tv

be a sufficient and full absolution/ both sides; no rep -

roaches shall be made or any disturbances created byk the

Chiefs or their subjects. ~ . b . ~

Translati n from Original Dutch counter:LJart in possession of:8 the

Chief Montshiwa at Mafihe!1g , and subui t ~ed to R.Rutherford, .3ec-

retary to the 3ritish Resident on the 21st Nove~ber 1882 . tA.lf-€., ~ (i;'

Briefly, 10shete and ~~ontshiwa 'pledge themselves and a gE'ee l

1. To keel) the peace towards each other, and place themse ­under

IveSxmEKg t h e laws and protection of ~he s outh African

Repub l ic.

2. That the :Boer volunteers of :Moshete be re\7arded by f.rms.

of 3, 0 morgen each , being l and expropriated frorrllm

11oshete, but by far t h e l a r ger part of it from}l Mon t shiwa .

3 . That nearly three - uaters of ' ontsh iwa ' s land J and t h at

t he b~st part of it containing arable ground be take~ from I~

CiA'] 4. '.rhat both chiefs utterly decline to have ; dea lings wi11h the

I

:British or any other Gove r nment , and under no circwna tan -

cef. to resort to them with their comp lll.a i nt s.

5. hat ~ontshiwa breaks all fortifi ca t ions in Aafiken~ and

raze them to the ground.

6.That Montsh iwa will keep as lawful booty all Eat t le and~ goo -

ds ca.,LJtured during l1lhe war from l:oshete, and vice ve Jrsa ,

but that he will restore all cat t le and goods (or th~ ir

equivalent v~lue ) taken from people unconnected with the,

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·111 , , "

war , -chat i s tIl e r ransvaa l bur~e~s and VOlunteer~.

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7. ,That Xii the intert1al anu externa.1 'or fOl~eign) . ~~latjions

qf the chi'~ s such 'as quarrels, iY!irnigrat.iQna:nd· 'entry of

outside natives, and war w~th other tribes will be cont --' ,

rolled by the ~outh -fric an Reyublic . · .' , . ~" 'tvuJ , ':

8. 'rhat r:r:ontsh iwa'/$ 11"epaxa.tiona 'or a war indemnity .·o.1' .ti

~16)OOO wit~in one month .

It is aoubttul whether .lllonti",lliwa understood. the l.l?rovisi Qri~ , I , .. '.'

" ,

of this p eace treaty, wheth er he and h'i'S counsellorsa'-ccen~ed .:. ,. :. ' , " . . ',5IM~.I

them and signed the Docur.lent. h ere are conflicting statemill ts I . ,

Acco rding to the ~ev J. ~ac~enz,i;e ( ~ust'r a.l . to' ' , l,-- ;

r.·

on those points.

.h.frica Vol Ip_ des) and ehe report o'r ' 'tne :k§.nd c..o:W4.,J.· n3<j4 p . 90 ",

there wJretwo documents which dif.l.'ered materiaLLY; and one 1iith sign

milder ternis Was s igned by the chi€f, whilst he. re fus edt·o s tgn "" . • 'II

the harsher one, presumably the ' 'one reproduced a bove. '. 'rhe que,-, '! . ~ .

stion is however academic and unimportant now. . The .. 111ai-n thi ng " .e

i s that ·Iontshiwa was hardpres~ea an~ whplli in, th~ h~nds of the ' ..

! .

enemies including the s o-called mediator •

.., In any Cas e" after. the" peace tr.eaty ' w.:as pas ~,ed as signed , . ,. . . ~ . .

. i\klaas" Gey va~~ ; 'tti-us, leader:' of the- ~rq'sh~t e 'vOlunteers a~Rooi-• _ '~ ,-: .: '~ .., , ,,' , ' . ' ,> :, 1

5~O~,d. issued a~~:procl amatiQ~ a 11l1exi''ng a l l th,e~and taken from . " "f • ' I :. : , (,I,

the , two ' chie fs - to heie' a'nd1ton,ts'hiwa andc ort,stit u,tes\.. flll. i nto a ,, '

I ... I ,,"

repub'lic un'der ' the BibicaY' ri~e of Land ofGo.shep..- It was int -. '. (

.-, .-f ' elided to cut , it up into ·farms of 3,000 morgel1,V e a Ch .. ' ( , I

Similar tacticl? as above .had been followed 'fur'theT .. sou-th· , . ..,'. , , '," .: : .1 " , :.-, (, ~i

. in the' case. of the war between 't h e 1r,1 tish , 'prpt~g~ . M,~nl~u~w~ne >' A ~ Df ~M-ru<$' u-F ~ fir. ~v-g..c~e. F~~ C}- ~ ' .!' ,:-\' .,;j; .. ...

~nd tha, ~ransva.al . ally11aSsou~ihad . been infliC:~~d _ upo~ h:im~n~ '" ,.,., " , . " . ' ..

~ank:urwane on the 26th of Ju-1:y' l882:/bywhich: a ~ract bf lande

•

. !!l .) . _, ' ;

. I 3,00 - morgen by 416 morgen was t aken from taem Etnd cons ti tuted , .~

., . ~. '.; ','

': ' i nto a r E; public called ~tella.land , ,0:' which Gervr i t J .. van 1!ieke~k

'~, . . " , ). \/

lwas i,i' elected administrator. , "

. ;,,'

It waS envis aged to unite t he two puny republics of s tella­

lo..ad c1nd"Land of Goshe~1 under , t :r;e style of the Ul1i-te: j tate s dif

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Transvaal satillites- M oshete , Matlaba and .hossou . Montshi wa and the other

chiefs came to agreement, sni they formally notifie~ the British ttesident in

,\

Pretoria of the fact • vlhen the Transvaal Government received this news, they

immediately complained to the Resident, who then wrote to Montshiwa :

My Friend: I have just heard fro~ the President that you are joining with Gasei-~~

tsiwa and Meshete to attack Moshete , who has applied to the Transvaal state for trust

protection. I ~ it is not true that such is your intention, as such action

on your part would, I think , lead to direct interference on the part of the

Transvaal. The Government has asked me to communicate with you on the subject

and to desire you to a11astain from attacp.ng hiIn . It is my duty to influence pm:

all you chiefs and native tribes in favour of peace , and I shall be glad to hear

from you at once as to the cause which is leading you to attack Moshete , and I

want to know if I can assist in bringing about a peaceful settlement of matters

between you1 Meanwhile I urge you to refrain from fighting and to respect the

C t o LO 1/ onven lon me g

At the end of March 1883, Chief Montshiwa received two letters, one from Eduard (!>

Bok, State Clecretary of the 'l'ransvaal, and the other from Vice-President Paul

Kruger . The letter f rom Bok threatened Montshiwa with severe Rains and penalties

for alleged theft of stock by his people from the burghers living on the western

·J.'ransvaal border , and peremptorily ordered hlm to put a stop to such thefts . il

l n reply Montshiwa stated : vIi th respect to this letter, a copy of which has been.

forwarded to Her .l·.I.ajesty ' s representative in Pr8toris , I can only "8'ay that accor-

ding to Articles 2, and Xi 17 of the ~retoria Convention, any communications fro M.

your Government to me shoudl come through Her MajestySs resi dent, and further

that the implied threat in the last sentences is totally uncalled for, as no one

knows better than the 'l'ransvaal Government that I am, and always have been ready

to search out and restore anything that may ha~ been t aken by my people from

your people . "

The letter from Vice-President Paul Kruger was a request to Montshiwa to give HZ

evidence before a Commission which the Transvaal Government was sending out to

inquire into the circumstances of the alleged murder of Jan Masibi~s peoible by .t1.esident

the burghers of the Transvaal . Shortl, before this, the British ~ had

invi ted the Transvaal Government to take part in a joint commission to investiga.­

-te the condition of affairs in t he weste~n border of the Transvaal, and chiefly

the 1ID.lrder of Jan Masibi's people . Mr Bok, the State Secretary had, hOHever, J.

curtly refused to co-operate o His w'Ords were :- "So long as t he Transvaa.l rJ:..s

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r eceived no proof that anyone Colonial English Government in South Africa

co -operates vli th it in confirming its lawful authority over the Kaffirs wi thin

the Republic , it has decided to defer the carrying out of any i nvestigaUons

into Kaf f ir cases beyond its borders, however weghty they may be in regard to

humanity. II C. 3486: 23 ) , and so Rutherford, the British Resident ' s secr etary had

had to conduct the investigations singlehanded (Nov. 1882) , and had reported

that Jan Masibi' s pe~le had been beyond doubt murdered by the burghers of the

transvaal .

In reply, on the 23rd March 1883 to t he Vice-President Kruger ' s lett er ,

Montshhra reminded him of these facts, and ypded : IIIt is not my desire or tiRtR

intentIon to have such things hushed up, but I cannot agree that a Commission ..

consisting only of members nominated by the Transvaal Government should inquire J_

i nto a case of such importance, whfuch implicates chiefly subjects of the 1'r ans- ·

vaal . Therefore I must inform your honour that I cannot give any evidence whatso­

ever before such a commisSion, unless it be accomp~nied by a member sent by Her

Majesty ' s representative. I have also written to the British Resident, urging

him, if possible , to send some person ,~th ~our honour ' s commission in order that

the veracity of my statements may be completely proved • "

The r eceipt of Montshiwa ' s answers to his and to the Vice -President ' s

letter threw State Secretary Bok into a paroxysm of rage • In common with the

officials and citizens of the f ransvaal , he had never been enamoured of !·J.ontshiwtt.

(Theal : 1873-1884 p . l48) , but now he simply loathed him. He coulL find no epithel­

opprobrious enough to hurl at him, he called him an "arch villian. "(!bid p . 149)

and other such names in his correspondence with British officials . It is interes -

ting to note how the historian Theal completely assimilated ~f ~duard i ..1. - I

BGkxromIDdO~XXXH~~bq~~xX~. Bok ' s hatr ed - , typlcal of all ~ transvaal s

animosity to Montshiwa , and became a concave reflecting mirror of their animus

a resounding chamber or microphone of their calumniations , Theal catalogues and

annotates these calumnies with evident relish and approval in his history (1873-

1884 pp 145, 146, 148 , 149, 152, 164 qnd 166 ) .

In May 1883, the fransvaal held its Presidential electi on, and Paul Kruger was ,. returned with an overwhelming majority over Piet Joubert , the only other candidat...

, Government Soon after the election, the fransvaal/ made preparations to send a deputation t o

the Colonial Office to seek modifications of the Pretoria Convention . It was , however not t±iX until September that the delegates - President Paul Kruger, the

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the Rev. S. J • duToi t and Gen . Niklaas ~ t left Pretoria fot z:.ondon -vhere they

arrived early in l~ovember aE:d had their fit 5t in'bol'view wi'bh the Eat 1 of De:ffiy­

S~cretary of ~tate for the Oolonies on tho 7th of Mamsa&:rNovember .

Sir Hercules Robinson, Hi gh Commi ssioner of South Africa had also been called

by , t he ~ecreatary of State to advise him. The ~ev John Mackenzie, agent of the

London Mi ssionary Society stationed at Kuruman l·ras at this time on furlough in

England, and had been for nine months addressing large meetings allover the

country- London, ~irmingham, Leeds , Bristol ,~ester , Edinburgh etc , ; educating

the British public from platform and pulpit, by press ~ bJXP~ and by pe~

sonal interviews about Bechuanaland xf:f~KXX • He had issued pamphlets on South

,..-,. . African affairs and thes~e had awakened 1nterest and resulted in strong resolu-

tmons being sent by civil and religious bodies to the Colonial Offic~ , urging the

Gladstone Uovernment for firm action in Bechuanaland, and "to discharge the duty

~ich they h~d undertaken in protection of the nativ~ races on the Transvaal

border • Mackenzie had been supported by Sir Henry Barkly and Si r fiartle-Frere , of South Africa

former High CommissionersJ .and by Sir Richard Southey, former Lt . Llovernor of

Griqual and West Q He had interviewed members of Parliarmant, cabinet ministers ,

editors of influential papers and periodicals Q "He saw everyone who had any inf -

luence mn the matter , and compassed sea and land if by any means he might make a

proselyte . "(W. T.Stead)

Wheij Montshiwa and Mankurwane heard that a lransvaal Deputation was going

to England to discuss the question of the l .. estern 'l'ransvaal boundary among other

matters , they met to consider the advisability of one or both of them going to

present the Hetswana :ri:ex point of view , with the result that Mankurwane actuali~

left Trolng en rout~ for London . At Cape Town, however, he was informed by the

Acting W.:;h Corw15 9si o'"1.er, as African deputations have been ever since always

informed, that he "lOuld not be admitted to the Confer ence in London, but that he

could make his representations i n w~iting o So heavily wei ghted have the scales

always been against Africans even in the highest courts , vi~ their interests

clashed with those of Europeans Q

Ther e can be no doubt that this dicision was made in deference to the feelin~

of the Transvaal Deput~tion

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The jeputa~mon waS received b y Lord Derby on the 7th of No --, , (

v811lbe r. (1883 ) Amongst other t h ings t hey ob jected to the P~et-ttf:L~ s~

oria Conven t i on as a whole because they had only agreed to it measure

under com.!,mlsion and as a temp9rary maa:te.r e. They objectcdtm to

the western ,boundary of the rdn8vaa l as encroach i ng on their ri ­((,~Iv J. ·~,Wtv~' 1wrJrt,C4--b'uL ·M~c-rt.d.,&Y~1MIfL--);?f itLh -f-,..ef~~~

ghtfu l te r ri torw they obj ected to the Bri tish Res i dent as a der -t

ogation of their national inter~rity and they ob jected to the Im-V t;:; ct-~ /t.1'v ;YvU~h J;~-U{J

IJerial v 6-te on the ir nati ve leg i sla .tioq/~ ! ... !"10ngst other thin gs p 6T. ·'f{:.IJI ~J-..-...crl!./ .

they dem .:::tnded tne re - af1' 71TIi::1ti on;O I' t ne '-, and _ iver ConventionE of p- ,fv{)..!tl.Jl'i-

1(552'1 free~ in dealing \v ith Afric d.n tribes on vhe western Tran-

s~aal border , and addi tion to the TL'an::lvaa1 it the lands of Mont -

8hiwo. , ~o 'he te, !ankur'lane and l~Qssou;i.

in oL.~i ce had conquered ~nd expelled :zilikazi who had (lver- nUn

all these countries, and that t he refore 3echuanaland belonyed to

them by right o f.' conquest. They fortified thl.mselves 'o y citi ng h

the deeds of cession rp.ade b some chiefs - Jioshete anu. IJIatlae.a

",.ad ~G s ou E - to their former :yresldent Thoma.s .3ur g;ers. 'rhey

referred to the Keate Jwa.rd as a deliberate a vulsion of the Tr ~-

s va a l . ~l' to i{rrc.db-n-

II l /hel:1 thp Transitaal a "'leea tes ¢fjrfJ~, t'hey imae; i ned thCi. t j;B~

they h9.d onl to come and see and con uer . If they h~d come

nine lJ10nths earlier their anticipations misht hav e been fu l f illed

\~en the arr ived, however, it was to o late. l~r !.Iackenz ie h C:l.d

been beforehand with them, and to their unconcealed chargrin,

th0y f')und that the public wmld not tolerate t he ir C~Atvm.-f1 ·

to erect a Boer barrier across the [Sreut trade r oudle from 'the U'b..fje

to ~entral HfriEa!l w :-r: ~tead i Pall ~all Gaze~te as qouted by , .D.

Lord :Jerb~' in re.!,11yine: tberef') r~ told the De~)utation thltt

~onts~iwa and ~Gnku rwane o~jected on behalf ot tnewselves and

their - eo;le to being included i n the Trans vaal, and there wa~ a

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stron: body of fee11n2 1n ~ n31and E in fav~ur or t ~~ir ino.e]en-

dence unless they were under 3~itisb protec t i on.

",/nile willing to concede to the demands of the Delmta tion Jt(;li/1i:r

in nost t hin _s,± even to the ~) oint 0ij' modifying the Transvaal

boundar to i nclude an additional 2,6 sq . .1 iles of l tt,nd being

a- ts of the lands of 1~o::lhete and '1B SSOU, Lord :Derby) .w-d'"tl,~ I~')

'beral -

minded'i and even" cold-wa.ter engine" as he vJas)ja.darnant ht, rfU- /tt1-1t4 ,~ . ~ /

the inclusionAof 1Iontshiw8~s and Mankurwane territories

in resisting

and the

~issionery a1' Trade oute in the . ransvaal.

I n 1'e~orting this i ntra nsie;ence of Lord :uerby to the Volks r!"t\~

CLad, "", res ident :raul' 'ruger stated ".I.e could not say that tne Br-

1 tizh 'overnrtJent had not been willing td) hear them , yet it had

be e n ibduced to withh~ld justice from the De ut ation by lies and

fraud on the )art of trai tors and intriguers of whom 1:,!r 1!:acken-

z 1e vilas one .. ':'11ere were officials of ReI' :!,-ajesty whom i~er

li&j es ty lilUS t believe. :Ie s a id th t if I er ::ajesty really caus -

e an i.dl,artial investization to be made , they would learn the

\,!~1 01e t ruth. .l .. t present the :l.:r.i. tish! overnme nt Vlent on the

letters of l i ars. "he r· ove rnwe n tin e ne ra.l , and er Glads tone

,vY\-- , f ' t ., ~ th . .Q.P, lJar 'C1Cular were in ' lu enced by ~ie 0PL1l0i1 01 e ''' nbllsn peo -

~ le to whom they mus t Si ve account. If it had not be e n for HI'

11. ckcnzie and the IIie:r- C01W1issioner, everything would have been

1h6.ge liars had st i rred UI) the - e::ople to stand on the

'lay of the overnment o"

ihe este.blishment of :tHe a 3ri tish protectorate over the

e. lands of ~on shiv!s. o .. nd 1:ankurwane was at the same time de$lided u -

to ppn , and a commi s siJD W8S issued to ir Eercules Robinson %e~mro protect ro.eHY. ~ J3r i ti8h inte.re :::;c:::; in l~echuabal8,nd, c.'1.. nd tl1e ~ "..ie:}1 Commissi -

ion r recommended the nev John lfackenzie to be Special commissio-

ner on the s ot to assis t him. llackenzie was not a persona gfa-

ta in the Transvaal. :~e was too outs . oken aleri tie of their

q; ~ 1<iS<Isit

their native

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olicy , and no sooner was his a pointement known 6.'.Idx

of in South Africa than there was an outb~rst of indignation against

it expressed i n telegrams of protest to the Colonial Office. The XRa

news of the new delimitation of the western Transvaal boundary and

the probab'~e stablishment of a British protectorate over the count­

ries of Montshiwa and Mankurwane at once incited the freebootin g vol­after holding several meetings in March,

unteers of Moshete to greater acti v i ty, andAthey determined to get

possession of Montshiwa's lands in anticipation the actual erecti-

ion of beacons and the issue of the roclamation of the protectora

n t he ls t of April (1884 Gey van Pi t ti us, " .,dminis tra tor of the

land of Goshen" and leader of oshete's volunteers gave Montshiwa

four days' notice to quit these lands at Rooigrond, which Montsh iwa '

people ha d never wholly vacated in spite of the expropriating prov­

isions of thF Snyman Treaty of 1 82. Mo ntshiwa of course refused to

quin, and said he would regard any attem t to dislodge him as an act

of war • The Goshen volunteers thereupon turned their cattle and KRX~ e.

horses into the arolong ri ening cornfields, a.nd at the same time,

Gey van Pittius gave notice of his intention to survey Montshiwa 's

land, cut it up into farms, set it up as the Republic of Goshen and 1"

occupy it. On this, lontshiwa wrote to Gey van Pi tti us : - III have

heard t hat your inten~ion is to come and survey my country, and that

you will also take my cattle. You cannot look to me for payment or td 11.-

for farms. I did not hire you. You all know this.I did hot interfe re

with your seeking your payment f r om the person who hired you as his

volunteers. t the same time I warn you to leave my country .~~~

xaxgXX±x±~. I do not know the Land of Goshen you write about. My

people are living on the lands their fathe rs have lived on - the land

of the Barolong ."

On the 12th of May,after giving Gey van Pittius due notice,

Montshiwa sent 300 armed men to expel the freebooting volunteers of

ioshete from ooierond across the transvaal border , which they did, '.

burnt their huts and occu ied Rooi~nd t r

On the 12th of pril, the Rev John Macke nzi e had received the foll -

owing orders Inter alia from the . ieh Commissioner :-

II The C(3,se of persons laying claim to the so-called Land of Goshen

/S'/Jf- 48 • a would appear to differ ma1iFJ:1a.ally f r dlm t ha t of the prese nt ~uropean

p opulation of Stel1a1a nd • The farms ass i gned to Moshete's volunteers

in .I.~ontcllll"lc.'s country have never been inspected., surveyed, occu -

pied or in :;.)roved. l:oreover the ter1:i tory left to the c_ ief 1'1"011 -

C~) tsbiwa by the new convention is so tmtted that no portion of it

could well be alienated, and you may find yourself obliged to or-

der the ejectment of t h e ersons now trespassing at _ooigrondo

1.1 such a case it way ha~pen that r ompt and decisive action may

o e necessary, and s hould you fe 01 ourself strong enough , you a re

authorised to take s uch action as may seeIn to you to ·o e desi rable

Lv~f{:CJf delaYing for a further refence to me."

1(ac ke nzie went morth, and arrived at aung (Taungs on)l the

30 th of .i1. ' ril and at once entered into treat.>' with I:Ianku r 1J!ane aI't )

e1' ex- la,ining to him the nature ')f the rotectorate over his

country. l'rom Taune; 'Iackenzie went to Vryburg and wi tb t h e coop-

er'Cttion of ~ert v a n Tiekerk, the "administrator" of t ellaland ,

secured t'1e submission of that state tho t _e British crown. F e

then visited ~'loshete at : .umlana to find that the chief was i n co ­TnlJlete mr>~ te darkness about t h e moves that deterr(lined the destiny of

his country in the recent Convention and was now 'blaming eve.cybody

exce )t himself. .Jj ro CrlUuvV'etlla, ltaclcenz 1e went to !rafi keng, whe re ~

he arrived on the 20th of Uay. a-~

There was great exci tenJent mam01'l

J t h e Tshidi Barolong at the arrival of their old friend John

Mackenzie in his new cayacity as a messenger of ueen Victoria to

restore order and bring eace to their strife-torn count :ry. The

c1:ief Montshiwa was especially delighted at t he prospe c t of the

establishment of the ~ueen ' s authority after peti ti oning for it f~ j,uv;t.JrZ 'V ·fw> tqu,rvI":;':f

so many years af.Hi th~ constant fear of ij!~ bei rlg snatched by the

Transvaal . I t i s an i nteresting pyschological problem that Mont-

shiwa v-I as happy to lose his independe nce to tbe Bri t i sh Go vemment

but was bitterly averse to lOSing it to the Government of the

uouth fricsn epublic. It was like a choice be t ween drowning

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