is bound to provide himself with clothing a gun and and there must be enough and oxen found between them to suffice for their joint use of the the taken one quarter goes to government and the rest to the the most disagreeable part of the system is however yet to come personal service is not all that the resident in the has to the right is in field to articles as well as individuals and to call upon inhabitants to furnish for the as may be imagined it goes very hard on these occasions with the property of any individual whom the field may not happen to like each ward is expected to out its ready and equipped for war and this can only be done by seizing goods right and left one unfortunate will have to find a another to deliver over his favourite span of oxen another his or some slaughter cattle and so on even when the officer making the is desirous of doing his duty as fairly as he can it is obvious that very great hardships must be inflicted under such a system are made more with regard to what is wanted than with a view to an distribution of demands and like the jews in the time of the he who has got most must pay most or take the consequences which may be unpleasant articles which are not such as are supposed to be returned but if they come back at all they are generally worthless in case of war the native tribes living within the borders of the state are also expected to furnish and it is on them that most of the hard work of the campaign generally falls they are put he front of the battle and have to do tiie hand its inhabitants laws and customs si to hand fighting which if of the race they do not object to the of the state is so arranged that the burden of it should fall as much as possible on the trading community and as little as possible on the farmer it is chiefly derived from on trades professions and s per quit rent on farms transfer and court and from such native tribes as can be made to pay them since we have given up the country the has put a very heavy tax on all imported goods hoping thereby to the into paying taxes without knowing it and at the same time strike a blow at the trading community which is english in its the result has been to what little trade there was left in the country and to cause great dissatisfaction amongst the farmers who cannot understand why now that the english are gone they should have to pay twice as much for their sugar and coffee as they have been accustomed to do i will conclude this chapter with a few words about the natives who swarm in and around the they can be roughly divided into two great races the and their and the or tribes all those of blood including the s the the and others are very warlike in disposition and men of fine the who must not be confounded with the cape however differ from these tribes in every respect including their language which is called the only mutual feeling between the two races being their common the of the they do not love war in fact they are timid and cowardly by nature and only fight when they are obliged to unlike the they are much to the arts of peace show considerable for and are even willing to become christians there would have been a far better field for the missionary in the than in and indeed the most successful mission station i have seen in africa is near under the control of mr in person the are thin and weakly when compared to the and it is their consciousness of inferiority both to the white men and their black brethren that together with their natural timidity makes them submit as easily as they do to the of the chapter ii events the in or about the year the of the elected mr their president this remarkable man was a native of the colony and passed the first sixteen or seventeen years of his life he once informed me on a farm sheep he afterwards became a clergyman noted for the eloquence of his preaching but his ideas proving too broad for his congregation he resigned his cure and in an evil moment for himself took to politics president was a man of striking presence and striking talents especially as regards his which was really of a very high class and would have commanded attention in our own house of he possessed however a mind of that peculiarly order that is sometimes met with in with great talents and which seems to be entirely without his intellect was of a like nature and as incapable of being he was always in the clouds and as is natural to one in that elevated position taking a very and more sanguine view of affairs to that which men of a more lowly and perhaps a more practical turn of mind would do s the but notwithstanding his fly away ideas president was undoubtedly a true night and day for the welfare of the state of which he had undertaken the guidance but his patriotism was too exalted for his surroundings he wished to to the rank of a nation a people who had not got the desire to be elevated with this view he contracted railway made wars gold c and then suddenly discovered that the country refused to support him li short he was made of very different clay to that of the people he had to do with he of a great dutch republic with eight millions of inhabitants doing a vast trade with the interior through the 