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(9) But when beasts or cattle are stolen from me or my people, I will take 

 two-fold as many from the thief, or from those who have aided the thief, when it is 

 proven. That it to say, I will take again the beasts which have been stolen, or when I 

 cannot find all, so many as the number is. And I will also take the same number 

 as "Regt's Beesten" (that is to say, cattle taken to pay for the trouble and costs). 



(10) Also I will punish the thief with forty lashes. 



(11) When one of my watchers on the feldt has been murdered, and my cattle 

 stolen, then shall the murderer be brought to my place and put to death. T will take 

 no payment from the murderer in any form whatever. 



(12) From him who hides a thief, I will take 10 oxen as pledge oxen (Band 

 Ossen), and retain them until the thief is brought out to me. I will take 20 pledge 

 oxen from those who hide a murderer. I svill give these back when the evil doer is 

 brought to me. 



(13) If the thieves drive ray cattle away to a werft, and the werft will not give 

 the thieves up when my men go there and ask for them, then I will not fire that 

 werft, neither will I take all their oxen, but I will take back the beasts that are 

 stolen, and from their beasts will drive out " Begt's Beesten " for the werft is guilty, 

 and besides the.se I will take the pledge oxen. I will not take more. 



(14) Furthermore if the men of the werft have fled when they see my men 

 coming and have left their cattle loose on the feldt, then I will not take all beasts 

 that they have, but I will take the stolen cattle out from among the others, and 

 then over and above the " Regt's Beesten " and the pledge cattle. I will take no 

 more. 



(15) The half of the "Regt's Beesten," shall go to him from whom the cattle have 

 been stolen. The other half goes to me. The pledge oxen I take in charge. 



A primitive law code it must be admitted! But this Galton- 

 justice ruled for many months on the borderland of the Namaquas 

 and Damaras, and half-a-dozen honest Englishmen with fifty Cape 

 mounted police could have maintained order and developed trade for 

 many years in that district after Galton's visit. As it was the British 

 Government idled and faltered, until Germany stepped in to reap 

 where Galton had sown. 



Imagination dwells pleasantly on the youthful law-giver fresh 

 from his fallow years of shooting and hunting facing this population 

 of "O'erlams" — a mixture of Boer and Hottentot blood — the greater 

 part of whom according to him had the common "felon face." 

 A note made on Jan. 24, 1851, in one of the pocket books is, how- 

 ever, worth reproducing : 



" Jonker is decidedly a talented man and seems in full vigour, his shrewd remarks, 

 concise descriptions and keen observation shows him to be no ordinary man. He came 

 out quite as a diplomatist in the long conversation I had with him about the interior, 

 artfully contriving to turn the conversation to his own ends." 



