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Title: The history of the battles and adventures of the British, the Boers, and the Zulus, etc. in Southern Africa, from the time of Pharaoh Necho, to 1888
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Moodie, D. C. F. Moodie, D. C. F. (Duncan Campbell Francis), 1838-1891
Subjects: South Africa : History.
Publisher: Cape Town : Murray
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been looked upon as aliens by the Griquas, andtheir conduct is attributable merely to tribal sympathy. At the commencement, also, the Praamberg, ScheitFontein, or, collectively, Carnarvon Kafirs, were alsojoined by a horde of those Springbok, Kat, Veldtsckoen-drager, Bitterbosch, Hartebeest, and other Korannas, whohad fought with Sir Walter Currie in 1867-8, and who,being by nature and descent free-booters, cordially joinedin any enterprise promising plunder ; but as these peoplehave, time out of mind, roamed as predatory hordes alongboth banks of the Orange River below the western limit ofGriqualand, and have often been at war with the Griquas,and always at enmity, their conduct is also not the resultof any action of the British Government of the Province. Note.—Owing to the voracious printers being at myheels, I shall be obliged to leave other contemporaneousmatter, such as the Sekukuni affair, &c, for insertion inthe Appendix, and, in the meantime, proceed with preparedcopy.
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CHAPTER XXXIII. THE TRANSVAAL.* The preceding chapter on the G-riquas, &c. brings us down,it will be perceived, to 1878, and so to the subject of theTransvaal, which magnificent tract of land, remarkable forits salubrity, richness, and fertility, became a Britishpossession on the 12th of April in the year 1877. Confiningmyself as much as possible to matter involved in the titleof this book, and having in former chapters brought thehistory of the Dutch Boers down to about the time of theirleaving Xatal, after the British occupation thereof, I willnow proceed with slight sketches of their history, havingreference, however, to the Transvaal. Before thus taking up the thread of the narrative itwould doubtless be interesting to notice a record of thedeath in Zululand, in 1838, of Mr. Uys and his son, near: relatives of the gallant old Piet Uys, who. joining ColonelWoods column near Utrecht, was assegaied by the Zuluswhilst conducting a retreat of his men down the ZlobaneMountain. In th

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