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80 VALE! SOLOMON.every despatch he wrote, I have experienced greaterpleasure than ever before fell to my lot during criticalinvestigation and analysis of diplomatic and officialpapers. Knowing that Waterboer had not a tittle ofright to land south of the Vaal, he never recognizedhis claims. ."When Sir George Clerk visited the Sovereighty as Her:Majesty's Special Oommissioner, this matter was also broughtbefore him."(By our reverend friend, again, it appears.)" I spoke to him several times a~ut it."(Alas! Sir George Clerk, like his predecessors, gaveno heed to the plaint; and the same may be said ofthe statement with which the reverend gentleman'sdeposition concludes:)"When in Cape Town, in 1855, I had several ~opportunities'ofmentioning this subject to his Excellency Sir George Grey; but, . asI was not authorized by the chief, Waterboer, to act for him, it itflOe ftIIJI"fW1I to 8k1U any pM'tieular8 ot my interview with hisExcellency."(That is a pity, because those who do not honourand respect Mr. Solomon may conclude that, as hewas trying to give evidence in favour of Waterboer,these suppressed "particulars" were adverse.)Deeming the five cases in which it is proved that noGriqua rights, save those of Adam Kok, were ever admittedsouth of the Vaal up to 1852 amply sufficient,in addition to the evidence previously adduced uponthat subject, we will proceed with our narration ofpolitical events.In December, 1852, Andries Waterboer, the chiefwhom we have seen old Dam Kok appointed over GriquaTown, and whose claims south of the Vaal we haveDigitized by Goog Ie