slave without payment. As a representative of my people, I am still
obedient to the English Government, and willing to obey all commands
from them, even to die for their cause in this country, rather than
submit to the Boers.

"I was under Shambok, my chief, who fought the Boers-formerly, but he
left us, and we were _put up to auction_ and sold among the Boers. I
want to state this myself to the Royal Commission. I was bought by Fritz
Botha and sold by Frederick Botha, who was then veldt cornet (justice of
the peace) of the Boers."

Many more of such extracts might be quoted, but it is not my motive to
multiply horrors. These are given exactly as they stand in the original,
which may all be found in Blue Books-presented to Parliament.

It has frequently been denied on behalf of the Transvaal, and is denied
at this day, in the face of innumerable witnesses to the contrary, that
slavery exists in the Transvaal. Now, this may be considered to be
verbally true. Slavery, they say, did not exist; but apprenticeship did,
and does exist. It is only another name. It is not denied that some
Boers have been kind to their slaves, as humane slave-owners frequently
were in the Southern States of America. But kindness, even the most
indulgent, to slaves, has never been held by abolitionists to excuse the
existence of slavery.

Mr. Rider Haggard, who spent a great part of his life in the Transvaal
and other parts of South Africa, wrote in 1899: "The assertion that
Slavery did not exist in the Transvaal is made to hoodwink the British
public. I have known men who have owned slaves, and who have seen whole
waggon-loads of Black Ivory, as they were called, sold for about £15 a