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that knew not God, and a passing smous told me that up north a good man had lost his wife, so I got on ' Looking alternately at her two friends, she asked them, 'Do you swearT They swore that they would not surrender. He'll welcome us and sign the papers we want They arrived at the great kraal on Saturday morning, 3 Febr ary 1838, and the festivities began at once. Young men and male children became targets lest when they matured they seek revenge against the Matabele.

'I bring words, my people,' she intoned in solemn accents. The first batch of blacks to be evicted from Sophiatow were to obey the secretary's letter to the last word. Hun- dreds of Boers, who started with no more than sullen resentment against the English, grew to detest t After that, everything was easy.