The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-03-05
FACTS OF THE TRANSVAAL
INTERESTING LECTURE BY DEAN
WAIL1ND LAST EYENING.

Origin of the South African States--Eng-
lands Policy Towards Them-The Dis
coveries of Gold and ID Observation-Disclosures
Wealth-The Jameson Raid.
A most interesting lecture was deliv-
cred at the First Baptist church last ev-
ening bv Dean ,Wayland of the Yale
law school under the auspices of the
Round Table committee of the Y. p. S.
c. E. of the church. Dean Wayland' S
subject was, "The Transvaal," a sub
ject particularly interesting at present.
The name Transvaal he said was ap-
piled to the territory in the southern
part of Africa, south of the Zambesi
river, and about 100000 miles in
area. On it's eastern coast is Delagoa
bay, the finest harbor on the African
coast. 1t is surrounded by fine tract
of country under the control of the
Portuguese, but is not at all developed,
so that the harbor is practically useless.
Bounded on the north by the Limpipo
river and on the south by the Bull river
is tract OF country called the South
African republic. Cape Towns site was
discovered about the middle of the
sixteenth century by the Portuguese
and was later taken possession of by
the Dutch East India company as a
stopping place for its ships bound
around the Cape of Good Hope to the
East Indies. In the latter part of the
h,,rI IyaJ
Hugenots fled from France and settled
there, being permitted to do so on con-
dition that they learned the Dutch Ian
guage. These two people assimiliated
and formed a strong race known as the
Beers They are thrifty and industri-
Gus. At the close of the Napoleanic
wars in 1914 the Dutch ceded Cape Col
ony to the English and when in 1888 the
English government freed the slaves of
the colonies and voted to pay the own
ers Of the slaves, by the scheming
of dishonest officials the Beers were
cheated out of five-sixths of the value of
their slaves. This, together with other
features of British rule, was distasteful
to the Beers and to the number Of sew
eral thousand they moved from the
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liieif way .hfoush wiiu h"'ise .iioes'
ihey Wefe' hoWesei, iatei eApeiieu .ion'
Natal through the agency of the British
government and moved into the South
African republic, to which, and the
Orange Free state independence had
been guaranteed by England.
III 4oo' caiie .iie uiecoNeiS VI uia
noHus' II thei occurred 10 tne Eng
iisii government .iia. 'iie oouiiualy i'ies'
were we're not property sl'rVeSeu' anu new
survey WAS ffiaue'' accoruths " Whieii
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ol tiiese iiiiies n''s,eau " ussei'' aS
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the boers' luiiy three-quarters ol the
entlre. numper' protesteo against sucii
give England u preteAt ana despite the
protestatlons against IL OIL Mr. Giao-
stone. the annexation was nlade' Inc
Boers nnaiiy reVoited ana defeated the
Ehgllsh troops III three nara lousht
pattles. Iourth large lorce was sent
against tnem' anu the boers asked Ior
an ar1nstlce. rms was granted ana
treaty was MADE py MI. GLADSTONE, ne
having come to the ministry III the
meantime, by which the liberty OF the
Beers was recognized, except that no
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