108 UVINGSTONE DENOUNCED. 



made for his subjection and service in preventing the 

 English traders passing to the north was kept out of 

 view. 



Very soon after Pretorius had sent the marauding 

 party against Kolobeng, he was called away to the tribunal 

 of infinite justice. His policy is justified by the Boers 

 generally from the instructions given to the Jewish 

 warriors in Deuteronomy xx. 10--14. Hence, when he 

 died, the obituary notice ended with " Blessed are the dead 

 who die in the Lord." I wish he had not " forbidden us 

 to preach unto the Gentiles that they may be saved." 



The report of this outrage on the Bakwains, coupled 

 with denunciations against myself for having, as it was 

 alleged, taught them to kill Boers, produced such a panic 

 in the country, that I could not engage a single servant 

 to accompany me to the north. I have already alluded 

 to their mode of warfare, and in all previous Boerish forays 

 the killing had all been on one side ; now, however, that 

 a tribe where an Englishman had lived had begun to shed 

 their blood as well, it was considered the strongest pre- 

 sumptive evidence against me. Loud vows of vengeance 

 were uttered against my head, and threats of instant 

 pursuit by a large party on horseback, should I dare to 

 go into or beyond their country ; and as these were coupled 

 with the declaration that the English Government had 

 given over the whole of the native tribes to their rule, 

 and would assist in their entire subjection by preventing 

 fire-arms and ammunition from entering the country, 

 except for the use of the Boers, it was not to be wondered 

 at that I was detained for months at Kuruman from sheer 

 inability to get waggon-drivers. The English name, 

 from being honoured and respected all over the country, 

 had become somewhat more than suspected ; and as the 

 policy of depriving these friendly tribes of the means of 

 defence was represented by the Boers as proof positive 

 of the wish of the English that they should be subjugated, 

 the conduct of a government which these tribes always 

 thought the paragon of justice and friendship was rendered 

 totally incomprehensible to them ; they could neither 

 defend themselves against their enemies, nor shoot the 

 animals in the produce of which we wished them to trade. 



At last I found three servants willing to risk a journey 

 to the north ; and a man of colour, named George Fleming, 

 who had generously been assisted by Mr. H. E. Rutherford, 



