Lord Glenelg, for example, had held office as Governor of the Cape
Colony for five years,--up to 1846. His policy had been, it is said,
conciliatory and wise. But immediately on a change of party in the
Government at home, he was recalled, and Sir Harry Smith superseded him,
a recklessly aggressive person.

It was only by great pains and trouble that the succeeding Governor,
Sir George Cathcart, a wiser man, brought about a settlement of the
confusion and disputes arising from Sir Harry Smith's aggressive and
violent methods.

And so it has gone on, through all the years.

Allusion having been made above to the assumption of the Protectorate of
Basutoland by Great Britain, it will not be without interest to notice
here the circumstances and the motives which led to that act. It will be
seen that there was no aggressiveness nor desire of conquest in this
case; but that the protection asked was but too tardily granted on the
pathetic and reiterated prayer of the natives suffering from the
aggressions of the Transvaal.

The following is from the Biography of Adolphe Mabille, a devoted
missionary of the _Société des Missions Evangéliques_ of Paris, who
worked with great success in Basutoland. His life is written by Mr.
Dieterlen (a name well known and highly esteemed in France), and the
book has a preface by the famous missionary, Mr. F. Coillard.[6]

"The Boers had long been keeping up an aggressive war against the
Basutos (1864 to 1869), so much so that Mr. Mabille's missionary work
was for a time almost destroyed. The Boers thought they saw in the