New-York tribune., 1901-01-13
BOERS AND CHRISTIAN BLACKS.
A MISSIONARIES ACCOUNT OF ATROCITIES COM
MITTED ON BAsUTOs.
From The London Mail.


From The London Mail.
missions must feel that the good and generous
people VINO eeSe 70 d INV tne bat 1anne
of people it is proposed to hand over the destnles
two English missionaries and German; now for
thai Of Frenehm3n one OF the PFoteStant eS ant
long conflict between the Basutos and the Beers
the British annexation of Basutoland;
"On our station we had been six months without
termined push to the next station to see If there
were any letters froP 81, Europe No sooner ne had W
great difficulty, travelling by night, hiding by day
from m my host to my wife telling her was believed
to be dying. II was dark when she received my
You cannot, you must not go to him. they
sight and the BasUtos are shooting every white
MY wife replied E m am going to my 11s 9gsband
lives. and without waiting even to change her
and started An hour or later she was re-
joined by three of the native servants (Christans)
2fter six nights nigh hard riding She reached the
fe About fortnight later the Christian Basu
tos,, of whom even then then there were many assem-
for their quarterly Communion accompanied by
their wives and children nj.
by night and hide in the day thus the Communion
Of these precautions the Beers got wind of it, Next
morning, about 6 o'clock servant appeared at
the door of my hut. ashen gray The Beers! the
Boersr he cried. We all dead men,
1.-The station referred to here lies in the hollow
of a crescent shaped kopje; precpitous in the
tre. the horns soping gently to the level of the
plain. The sky line black with Beers, who
were pouring down the horns of tn crescent and
filling the village I struggled through a per-
feet storm of bullets-provdentially not of
them wounded me. The ground was covered with
men, and children dead dying. The
Beers were firing in through the ioors of the huts
Il found my way to the commandant personal
acquaintance of mine. and besought him TO stop the
''The commandant replied that he could not take
be exterminated. and they do 1t when and
where they could Seeing my entreaties un-
ayafling | determined to the lives of my own
people II possible | said, IF you nothing for
these poor Christians you care little for You
see how i'll / 1 cannot reach my station
without the help of my servants. Give a safe
conduct for these three men,. He answered, You
SIX a great thing of me. do not think can grant
it, still urged my plea.
The commandant touched at last. seeing I
was almost fainting: he asked their names and
wrote out pass for them. saying, however. If
they seen by any of my people they will proba-
bly, be shot at sight without being asked whether
they have a safe conduct or not. So they must
go at their risk We off with them as
soon as possible: IN my weak state 1t took ten
days TO reach home, and, oh, the sights on
echoing with the howls of the Kaffr dogs; the
nights filled with laughter of hyenas and jackals
which told us when we passed the scenes of past
slaughter"
ed by the Beers. Not so his colleagues VI. Fredoux
of Motto, and then NM. Creux and Berthond OF
the Mission Romande. at later date were forcibIy
taken from their stations and kept In captivity for
confined to a village CMarabastadO under surveil
lance