NATIVE DISTRICTS. LETTER OF DR. MOFFAT IN 1877. LETTER OF HIS SON,
REV. J. MOFFAT, 1899. REPORT OF M. DIETERLEN TO THE COMMITTEE OF
THE MISSIONS' EVANGÉLIQUES OF PARIS.


The following is an extract from the "Missionary Travels and Researches
in South Africa," of the venerable pioneer, David Livingstone.[12]

"An adverse influence with which the mission had to contend was the
vicinity of the Boers of the Cashan Mountains,[13] otherwise named
'Magaliesberg.' These are not to be confounded with the Cape Colonists,
who sometimes pass by the name. The word 'Boer,' simply means 'farmer,'
and is not synonymous with our word boor. Indeed, to the Boers generally
the latter term would be quite inappropriate, for they are a sober,
industrious, and most hospitable body of peasantry. Those, however, who
have fled from English Law on various pretexts, and have been joined by
English deserters, and every other variety of bad character in their
distant localities, are unfortunately of a very different stamp. The
great objection many of the Boers had, and still have, to English law,
is that it makes no distinction between black men and white. They felt
aggrieved by their supposed losses in the emancipation of their
Hottentot slaves, and determined to erect themselves into a republic, in
which they might pursue, without molestation, the 'proper treatment' of
the blacks. It is almost needless to add, that the 'proper treatment'
has always contained in it the essential element of slavery, namely,
compulsory unpaid labour.

"One section of this body, under the late Mr. Hendrick Potgeiter,
penetrated the interior as far as the Cashan Mountains, whence a Zulu
chief, named Mosilikátze, had been expelled by the well known Kaffir