CHAPTER XXX. 

 AFTER THE RETROCESSION. 



The Transvaal Boers most cordially disliked and 

 despised the Hollanders dwelling among them, but 

 on account of their speaking Dutch and being useful 

 to write official documents and keep accounts, they 

 tolerated and used them. Dr. Leyds (who was born 

 in Borneo) and was a school-master, succeeded in 

 ingratiating himself with President Kruger. He 

 had written a letter to a friend in Holland speaking 

 in a most insulting manner of the Transvaal Boers. 

 This letter was sent back from Holland to the Trans- 

 vaal, was read out to the Volksraad, and caused 

 great indignation, but as he was so intimate with 

 Transvaal affairs, Mr. Kruger defended him, and 

 smoothed it over. 



When the state income from the Rand Goldfields 

 exceeded the Kruger dreams of avarice, a secret 

 service fund was started, and Dr. Leyds was credited 

 with handling large sums, The money was mostly 

 used to purchase cannon, rifles, ammunition, to 

 prepare to fight the British, and establish Repub- 

 lican rule over South Africa, it was hoped with the 

 assistance of Germany and Holland. The deep- 

 seated animosity of the Dutch Afrikander against 

 the British is mainly due to the injudicious manner 

 in which the emancipation of the slaves was carried 

 out in 1838. 



On March 26th, 1713, England made a treaty with 

 Spain "The Asiento de Negros" by which she secured 

 the monopoly of supplying slaves to the Spanish 



