The South-African crisis - pagina 13

THE SOUTH-AFRICAN

CRISIS.

1827 three hundercl hed Germans establiseighty

In

themselves in the Colony and after the Crimian

War 2000

(xerman members of the foreign legion obtained extensive

The Scotch themselves to a conside^). number have mixed with the Boers by marriage.

farms there rable

To

diver's

elements

general

examine the

of

these

asked Dr. Muller, envoy and Consul-

I

Orange

the

of

the proportion

approximately

ascertain

Free State at the Hague, to

of electors of his country. I have thus

list

names were Dutch, 12^ 12 per cent French, per cent Scotch, 3^ per cent

ascertained that 68 per cent of the

Germans and -3^ per cent Scandinavians, Italians, etc. The two great Generals Joubert and Cronje are ot President Kriiger and Mr. Reitz, the

French origin; Secretary

at

absorb

to

as

the

least,

nationalities over this far

is

Those

from

German

whom we

direct

call

civilization inducing

Boers

it

regards

Africanders

them

cause

are

distinguished

light shade of character accessibility

to invite English

to English

farmers to

with them against the mother in

America.

The

be said on the contrary fear that the

of English habits w^ould enfeeble their type.

At the moment

*)

as

influence of the other

Dutch and English did

may

infiltration

others,

complex and varied assemblage

amongst the Boers by that which reveals their greater

country as

the

reduced to a negligible quantity.

being

make common

extraction: hence

although the Dutch element so far

that

predominates language

are of

of State,

appears

it

of danger

Purvis and Biggs.

however the claims of blood

Soidh- Africa,

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