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TEEATMENT OF NATIVES BY BOEKS. 
Chap. II. 
Zulu or Caffre chief, named Mosilikatze, had been expelled by 
the well-known Caffre Dingaan; and a glad welcome was given 
them by the Bechuana tribes, who had just escaped the hard 
sway of that cruel chieftain. They came with the prestige of 
white men and deliverers; but the Bechuanas soon found, as 
they expressed it, “ that MosILikatze was cruel to his enemies, and 
kind to those he conquered; but that the Boers destroyed their 
enemies, and made slaves of their friends.” The tribes who stdl 
retam the semblance of independence are forced to perform all 
the labour of the fields, such as manuring the land, weeding, 
reaping, buildiug, making dams and canals, and at the same 
time to support themselves. I have myseK been an eye-witness 
of Boers coming to a village, and, according to their usual custom, 
demanding twenty or thirty women to weed their gardens, and 
have seen these women proceed to the scene of unrequited tod, 
carrying their own food on their heads, their children on their 
backs, and instruments of labour on their shoulders. Nor have 
the Boers any wish to conceal the meanness of thus employiug 
unpaid labour; on the contrary, every one of them, from Mr. 
Potgeiter and Mr. Gert Krieger, the commandants, downwards, 
lauded his own humanity and justice in making such an equitable 
regulation. We make the people work for us, in consideration 
of allowing them to Live in our country.” 
I can appeal to the Commandant Krieger if the foregoing is 
not a fair and impartial statement of the views of himself and liis 
people. I am sensible of no mental bias towards or against these 
Boers; and during the several journeys I made to the poor 
enslaved tribes, I never avoided the wliites, but tried to cure and 
did administer remedies to their sick, without money and without 
price. It is due to them to state that I was invariably treated 
with respect; but it is most unfortunate that they should have 
been left by their own Church for so many years to deteriorate 
and become as degraded as the blacks, whom the stupid prejudice 
against colour leads them to detest. 
This new species of slavery wliich they have adopted serves to 
supply the lack of field-labour only. The demand for domestic 
servants must be met by forays on tribes wliich have good 
supplies of cattle. The Portuguese can quote instances in wliich 
blacks become so degraded by the love of strong drink as 
