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the country worth at least ninety-five per cent of 

 those of the Boers of powers of obstruction and 

 annoyance in many directions, which, as shown by 

 experience, they have a strong inclination to make 

 use of on every possible occasion. Meanwhile, it 

 is also high time that the meaning of the term 

 suzerainty should be accurately defined the duties 

 and powers of the suzerain elucidated, in order 

 that they may be carried efficiently into action 

 when requisite for the protection of that important 

 section of the Transvaal population now kept 

 outside the pale within which the " Chosen People " 

 monopolise the right of inflicting any amount of 

 exorbitant taxation, and of exacting military 

 service ad libitum, minus pay, food, medical 

 attendance, or, indeed, any of the arrangements 

 necessary to the welfare of troops in a campaign. 

 This has been prominently evidenced lately by 

 facts in connection with the late Malabock war, 

 Her Majesty's High Commissioner at the Cape 

 having had occasion to make a special journey to 

 Pretoria to supplicate for the more indulgent 

 treatment of British subjects by His Honour Paul 

 Kruger and his myrmidons. Some sort of arrange- 

 ment has been patched up in consequence, but it 



