2,6 KAKE'S REBEUJON. 



putting the case in this way : — The command to "go into 

 all the world and preach the gospel to every creature " 

 must be obeyed by Christians either personally or by 

 substitute. Now it is quite possible to find men whose 

 love for the heathen and devotion to the work will make 

 them ready to go forth on the terms " bare subsistence," 

 but what can be thought of the justice, to say nothing 

 of the generosity, of Christians and churches who not 

 only work their substitutes at the lowest terms, but regard 

 what they give as charity ! The matter is the more 

 grave in respect to the Protestant missionary, who may 

 have a wife and family. The fact is, there are many cases 

 in which it is right, virtuous, and praiseworthy for a 

 man to sacrifice everything for a great object, but in which 

 it would be very wrong for others, interested in the object 

 as much as he, to suffer or accept the sacrifice, if they can 

 prevent it. 



English traders sold those articles which the Boers 

 most dread, namely, arms and ammunition ; and when 

 the number of guns amounted to five, so much alarm was 

 excited among our neighbours that an expedition of 

 several hundred Boers was seriously planned to deprive 

 the Bakwains of their guns. Knowing that the latter would 

 rather have fled to the Kalahari Desert than deliver up 

 their weapons and become slaves, I proceeded to the 

 commandant, Mr. Gert Krieger, and, representing the 

 •evils of any such expedition, prevailed upon him to defer 

 it ; but that point being granted, the Boer wished to gain 

 another, which was, that I should act as a spy over the 

 Bakwains. 



I explained the impossibility of my complying with 

 his wisn, even though my principles as an 'Englishman 

 had not stood in the way, by referring to an instance 

 in which Sechele had gone with his whole force to punish 

 an under-chief without my knowledge. This man, whose 

 name was Kake, rebelled, and was led on in his rebellion 

 by his father-in-law, who had been regicide in the case 

 of Sechele' s father. Several of those who remained faithful 

 to that chief were maltreated by Kake while passing to 

 the Desert in search of skins. We had just come to live 

 with the Bakwains when this happened, and Sechele con- 

 sulted me. I advised mild measures, but the messengers 

 he sent to Kake were taunted with the words, " He only 

 pretends to wish to follow the advice of the teacher : 



