piece. I have at this moment a tenant, Carolus by name, on some land I
own in Natal, now a well-to-do man, who was for twenty years a Boer
slave. He told me that during those years he worked from morning till
night, and the only reward he received was two calves. He finally
escaped to Natal."

Going back some years, evidence may be found, equally well attested with
that already quoted. On the 22nd August, 1876, Khama, the Christian King
of the Bamangwato (Bechuanaland), one of the most worthy Chiefs which
any country has had the good fortune to be ruled by, wrote to Sir Henry
de Villiers the following message, to be sent to Queen Victoria:--"I
write to you, Sir Henry, in order that your Queen may preserve for me my
country, it being in her hands. The Boers are coming into it, and I do
not like them. Their actions are cruel among us black people. We are
like money; they sell us and our children. I ask Her Majesty to pity
me, and to hear that which I write quickly. I wish to hear upon what
conditions Her Majesty will receive me, and my country and my people,
under her protection. I am weary with fighting. I do not like war, and I
ask Her Majesty to give me peace. I am very much distressed that my
people are being destroyed by war, and I wish them to obtain peace. I
ask Her Majesty to defend me, as she defends all her people. There are
three things which distress me very much--war, selling people, and
drink. All these things I find in the Boers, and it is these things
which destroy people, to make an end of them in the country. The custom
of the Boers has always been to cause people to be sold, and to-day they
are still selling people. Last year I saw them pass with two waggons
full of people whom they had bought at the river at Tanane (Lake
Ngate).--Khama."

The visit of King Khama to England, a few years ago, his interview with