Identifier: southafricatransv1v2cres (find matches)
Title: South Africa and the Transvaal War
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Creswicke, Louis
Subjects: South African War, 1899-1902
Publisher: Edinburgh T.C. & E.C. Jack
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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mained there, but the great majority took to theirwaggons and lumbered back across the Drakenberg to their oldsettling-place. There the original Voortrekkers had scattered themselves on bothsides of the Vaal River, and helped to found the Transvaal and theOrange Free State. As may be imagined at this juncture, the naturalhostility to the British, which has now become part of the Boer char-acter, was growing apace. The voluntary exiles from Natal, onmoving to the north of the Orange River, determined to evade theBritish, and proclaim the whole of that locality an independent Re-public. The authorities at the Cape, however, frustrated the newstruggle for independence. They laid claim for Great Britain to thewhole territory east of E. long. 22° and south of S. lat. 25°, withthe exception of the land already owned by Portugal or by friendlynative chiefs. It may be remembered that one of the causes of the great Trekwas the restoration of their province to Kaffirs, thereby according to 10
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J5 < Introduction the blacks an independence that was not enjoyed by the Boers. Noastonishment, therefore, will be felt at the exasperation of the Boerswhen they found that the Cape Government had entered into treatieswith the Griquas—treaties which seemed to them to promise morefreedom to the savage than was accorded to themselves. Grievancesof many kinds—some real and some ridiculous—continued daily tooccur. Things serious and things trivial were liable to cause themequal indignation. According to Livingstone, the ignorant followersof Potgieter—who were posted at Magaliesberg, a thousand milesfrom the Cape—were moved to wrath merely by the arrival ofHerschels great telescope at the Cape Observatory ! What right,said they, had the Government to erect that huge instrument at theCape for the purpose of seeing what they were doing behind theKashan mountains ? But of just grievances they had several, and these Pretorius, asspokesman of his people, wished to lay before the Go

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