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a headman appointed by the London Missionary 

 Society to maintain order among the native 

 converts in and around their station at Griqua- 

 town. 



Kok's chief village was, and is, called Campbell's 

 Dorp, and a deliminating line between his terri- 

 tory and that presided over by Waterboer was 

 established. The existing dilemma was an 

 awkward one, but Arnott solved it by forging some 

 documents, by the destruction of others, and by 

 falsification of the rest bearing evidence adverse 

 to the claim of paramountcy. For reasons which, 

 as Lord Dundreary says, " no fellow could under- 

 stand" without implying a charge of their dis- 

 honesty against the Administration, Arnott's 

 scheme was accepted and acted on. Officialdom 

 on the fields was remodelled ; two men Bowker 

 and Buskes in prominent positions too honest to 

 become " particeps criminis " in the swindle were 

 dismissed. 



The claims of the Free State and of the numer- 

 ous British settlers who had acquired property 

 under titles conferred by Cornelius Kok thus 

 lapsed, in default of the signature of the fictitious 

 paramount chief, and Arnott triumphed all along 



