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allowed to practise his craft as a tailor, but shall not 

 be allowed to abandon the same, or adopt any other 

 mode of living ; but, when it may be deemed 

 necessary, to go back into his old capacity and pay, 

 and to be transported hence if thought fit." 



Prisoners awaiting their trial were then confined 

 in dark and noisome dungeons, their legs secured in 

 stocks or by iron chains, for months before undergoing 

 trial, whether innocent or guilty. " This," we are 

 told, "often had an excellent effect; they became, 

 through it, so docile and so mild, that they confessed 

 all that was in their hearts." The condemned were 

 sometimes broken on the wheel, or stripped naked 

 and bound to a wooden cross, whereon first the 

 right hand was struck off, then the head, after which 

 the body was disembowelled and quartered. At 

 the time the British Government abolished these 

 barbarities, the Dutch Colonial Court of Justice 

 urged their continuance " as proper engines of 

 terror." It is small wonder then that the Batavian 

 Government at the Cape — a weak and yet a 

 brutally severe one — had succeeded, at the time of 

 British interference, in goading the colonists into 

 insurrection. 



It is a curious circumstance that the Dutch 

 rulers at the end of the last century were as alarmed 

 at the prospect of immigration to the Colony as 

 the Afrikander Bund party is at the present day. 

 Quite at the close of the Dutch dominion. Governor 

 Janssens, replying to a memorial, said : " With 

 regard to your inclination to strengthen the Cape 

 with a new settlement, we must to our sorrow, but 

 in all sincerity, declare that we cannot perceive any 

 means whereby more people could find a subsistence 



