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detained for months at Kuruman from sheer inability to got 
Wagon-drivers. Tho English name, from being honored 
and rospectod all ovor tho country, had become somewhat 
more than suspected; and as tho policy of depriving those 
friendly tribes of tho moans of dofenco was represented 
by tho Boers ns proof positivo of tho wish of tho English 
that thoy should bo subjugated, tho conduct of a govern, 
mont which theso tribes always thought tho paragon 
°f justice and friendship was rondored totally incompre- 
hensible to thorn; thoy could neither defond thomsolvos 
against their encmios, nor shoot tho animals in tho pro- 
duce of which wo wished them to trade. 
At last I found three servants willing to risk a journey 
to the north; and a man of color named Goorgo Fleming, 
who had generously boon assisted by Mr. II. E. Buthorford, 
a mercantile gentleman of Cape Town, to endeavor to 
establish a trado with tho Makololo, had also managed to 
get a similar numbor; wo accordingly left Kuruman on the 
"Oth of November, and proceeded on our journey. Our 
servants were the worst possible specimens of thoso who 
unbibo the vices without tho virtues of Europeans; but we 
bad no choico, and wore glad to got away on any terms. 
When we reached Motito, forty miles off, wo met Sochole 
011 bis way, as he said, “to tho Queen of England." Two 
his own childron, and their mother, a former wife, wore 
among tho captives seized by tho Boers; and, being strongly 
•mbuod with tho then very prevalent notion of England's 
justice and generosity, he thought that in consoqucnco of 
tho violated treaty ho had a fair caso to lay before her 
Majesty. Ho omployed all his oloquonco and powers of 
Persuasion to induce mo to accompany him, but I excused 
Myself on tho ground that my arrangements wero already 
^ado for exploring tho north. On explaining tho diffi. 
eultios of tho way, and endeavoring to dissuado him from 
tbo attompt, on account of tho knowledge I possessed of 
tho governor’s policy, ho put tho pointed question, “Will 
tbo queon not listen to mo, supposing 1 should reach herF 
