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ference to the dignity of man) the trade in spirits and 

 firearms and have finally exterminated them. 



But the Natal Government have carefully steered 

 clear of faddism. They have refused to destroy the 

 old native institutions before the people were ready to 

 adopt new modes of life and thought. They respected 

 all that the natives valued, in so far as it was not con- 

 trary to the spirit of right and justice. They left them 

 under their existing tribal organisation ; conscientiously 

 put aside large reservations of land for them ; governed 

 them through their chiefs, and refused to allow them 

 to be demoralised by the sale of spirits or firearms. 



All this time they accustomed them to labour by 

 imposing mild taxation which compelled them to go out 

 and work a little ; they took off the rough edge of the 

 native marriage institutions by limiting the amount of 

 dowry to be paid for a wife ; they gave facilities for 

 acquisition of land in freehold by such natives as 

 wished to become emancipated from tribal customs, 

 and they countenanced the missionary and schoolmaster 

 in their efforts to give light, and thus mitigate the 

 inevitable deterioration which ensues when savages are 

 brought into contact with civilisation. 



It is a great work. It has been wisely conducted, and 

 the next generation will reap the harvest thus sown in a 

 degree which we can hardly at present appreciate. 



The sympathies and feelings of the people are essen- 

 tially English ; nor have they as yet developed the senti- 

 ment of Africanderism to the same degree as have the 

 peoples of the great republics of the interior. But with- 

 out imputing to them disloyalty to the land of their 

 origin, it is evident that, sooner or later, like all other 

 colonists, they will naturally become children of their 



