The South-African crisis - pagina 22

;

THE SOUTH- AFRICAN

18

known

cally

fly

and take their chance

Pharaonic terrors

its

The Boer famihes in from their Egypt and

as the great trek.

thousands resolved to

their

CEISIS.

in the

wide wilderness. Better to die in the struggle against the

and against savages than to be further

fates

They yoked their cattle them with whatever they

graced by such an ignominy

waggons,

their

to

could

carry,

filled

dis-

!

and with the Bible at their head, they

descended into Natal, reached the Orange plateau and

some of them even passed beyond the Vaal. In their encounters with the Zulus of Schaka under Dingaan and Moselekatsi they were severely tried, and morebehind

over

their

they found the English

enemies,

missionaries as those ennemies councillors and leaders

but they were free .

they fought with a

;

heroism worthy of an fices

Iliad,

they succeeded at

republics,

in

Natal,

last in

and

spirit

and a

after unheard-of sacri-

founding their three small

on the borders

beyond the great Vaal. Then England was guilty of the

of the

Orange

River, and

reclaiming

them

as British

English

the

Queen cannot be annulled.

that

the

j^lateau.

the

^^Nemo exuere potest at

Durban, others

In July 1847 the Boers

were defeated near Durban, and on August at

of

quality of a subject of

patriamr Troops were disembarked invaded the Orange

wrong

We know

subjects.

old

theory

gre?ot

Boomplaats on the Orange River. In

29tii

1S48

spite of their

protestations the ''Sovereignty of the Orange River" and

Natal British

wei'e

by proclamation with the thus that England drove to

incorporated

Empire.

It

is

despair these intrepid colonists.

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