CHAPTER III. 
THE CAPE COLONIAL HISTORY, UNDER THE DUTCH AND ENG- 
LISH GOVERNMENTS. 
The colonial history of South Africa, under the 
Dutch Government, presents to our notice little 
that is either interesting or important, if we 
except the long disputed question of their first 
occupation of its various districts, together with 
the modes employed by them for procuring 
them from the aborigines. 
On these points, a few remarks may not be 
altogether misplaced, although the question is 
one which has caused such angry discussion 
already, that it demands a cautious treatment, 
and very serious attention. 
Those who have charged the first colonists 
with the injustice of having forcibly deprived 
the native tribes of their land, and who urge 
on those of the present time an inclination to 
follow in the same road of encroachment, seem 
on the one side, (on careful examination of the 
documents extant, which bear on this subject,) 
to have been rather hasty in forming their 
conclusions, and preferring their serious charge. 
